History
JCCOG (Johnson County Council of Governments) was chartered in 1980 as a successor organization to the Johnson County Regional Planning Commission. The Iowa City community achieved urbanized area status with the 1980 census, and JCCOG was organized to accommodate federal transportation planning requirements for urbanized areas. In January of 1982 the Governor of the State of Iowa designated JCCOG as the Metropolitan Planning Organization for the Iowa City Urbanized Area. In 2011, JCCOG become the Metropolitan Planning Organization of Johnson County (MPOJC)
The steering committee which established MPOJC attempted to address certain shortcomings of the preceding regional planning commission. The most significant changes were (1) the establishment of two policy boards to deal separately with urban and rural issues, (2) the representation of only elected officials on the policy boards (except for the University), and (3) the incorporation of MPOJC staff within the organization of the City of Iowa City.
