Federal law requires
that all urbanized areas in the United States with
populations of 50,000 persons or greater establish
Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) responsible
for area transportation planning and programming
activities.
In the Sioux Falls urbanized area, the
designated Metropolitan Planning Organization is the
Urbanized Development Commission (UDC) of the South
Eastern Council of Governments (SECOG).
The UDC is composed primarily of elected
officials from the three local units of governments in
the greater Sioux Falls area. The UDC directs and
oversees all transportation planning and programming
activities within the official Sioux Falls metropolitan
planning study area. This study area includes
approximately 702 square miles in Southeastern South
Dakota, including the Cities of Brandon,
Crooks, Harrisburg, Hartford, Sioux Falls, and Tea, as well
as portions of Lincoln and Minnehaha Counties.
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