The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) is the metropolitan planning organization for Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain and Medina Counties in Ohio.
As the region’s metropolitan planning organization, NOACA is responsible for transportation planning in a five-county area. The NOACA Governing Board determines how federal transportation dollars will be spent in the region. While the scope of NOACA’s activities is broad, its main federally mandated transportation-related responsibilities include:
The region’s Long Range Transportation Plan, which outlines NOACA’s fiscally constrained vision for transportation through 2030