Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission

Created by the Commonwealth of Virginia, the County of Accomack and the County of Northampton and joined by the Town of Chincoteague, the A-NPDC is the Eastern Shore of Virginia’s regional organization. Tasked with supporting local planning and community development efforts and providing technical assistance on behalf of the Commonwealth, the A-NPDC focuses on issues of regional importance. By far the largest organization housed at the Enterprise Building, the A-NPDC has the most diverse work program. With three organizations, colocated in the Accomac office it is quite common to hear us referred to collectively as the “Housing Office”. However, the A-NPDC has a larger role in the region. The A-NPDC provides regional planning and also assists various jurisdictions with very diverse community development projects, such as grant-writing and financing of a regional and community broadband network and creation of the Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority to construction of the new Tangier Medical Center.