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Description: The Lawton Metropolitan Planning Organization is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization for the Lawton Urbanized Area.

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The Lawton Metropolitan Planning Organization (LMPO) is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Lawton Urbanized Area, as defined by the 2010 U.S. Census. Any urbanized area or contiguous urbanized areas, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, containing a population of greater than 50,000 are required to have an MPO. An MPO is a planning agency established by federal law to assure a continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive transportation planning process takes place that

The Federal Highway Act of 1962 mandated that metropolitan areas with a population of 50,000 or more have a long range transportation plan and program before Federal highway funds could be spent on highway projects. In addition, the long range plan was to be based on the 3C planning process (comprehensive, continuing and cooperative). In the Lawton Metropolitan Area, the transportation planning responsibility was originally entrusted to the Lawton Metropolitan Area Planning Commission as the MPO. In 2003, t

The planning and program management functions are administered and implemented by the City of Lawton’s Planning Division, which provides staff, technical and clerical support.

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