Coming out of the Great Recession, community members envisioned a future where their children could stay in Southern Nevada, obtain a good paying job, and raise their family here. The plan provided 4 primary goals for achieving this vision: Improve economic competitiveness and education, invest in complete communities, increase transportation choice, and build capacity for regional coordination.

By 2015, the original Southern Nevada Strong Regional Policy Plan (14MB PDF) was adopted region-wide and later that year the Regional Transportation Commission took over managing the Plan and created a Steering Committee of local government agencies and community partners to oversee it.