In 2016 The Pennsylvania State Planning Board received a charge from the Governor Tom Wolf to prepare a report with recommendations in three areas:
- Infrastructure: Recommend incentives for regional planning and coordination of infrastructure investments.
- Efficient government: Make policy suggestions to remedy problems or inefficiencies of fragmented government.
- Community revitalization: Recommend how the state can do more to help struggling communities and address the urban/suburban divide and twin challenges of concentrated poverty and sprawl.