Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission

What Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission does

Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission (TRORC) is a Vermont regional planning commission serving 30 municipalities across approximately 1,100 square miles in east-central Vermont, including Orange, Windsor, Rutland, and Addison counties. Established under Vermont state law, TRORC operates as a political subdivision of the state with a Board of Commissioners appointed by member towns, and holds statutory responsibilities including Regional Plan development and adoption, municipal town plan approval, and participation in Act 250 and Section 248/248a permitting processes. The organization is also designated as an Economic Development District by the US Economic Development Administration.

TRORC delivers a broad portfolio of technical services rather than a single product, anchored on a regional GIS service center that maintains parcel, zoning, land use, transportation, natural resources, utilities, flood hazard, and energy data layers distributed via an ArcGIS-based online portal. Core service lines include regional and municipal planning, transportation planning (managed by a Senior Planner who has secured $1.9M in CDBG funding), brownfields assessment, emergency management, energy planning (including a Shared Energy Coordinator model serving six towns), housing, environmental planning, economic development, and a youth scholarship program. The organization conducts training workshops, maintains a YouTube channel, and partners with VTrans, Flood Ready Vermont, Mount Ascutney Regional Commission, and Weston and Sampson.

TRORC is funded primarily through government grants — including $3M in CDBG-DR for flood buyouts (December 2025) and $8.9M in NBRC infrastructure funding (December 2025) — alongside municipal dues and contracted planning services. The organization employs approximately 14 staff led by Executive Director Peter G. Gregory (appointed 1997) and operates from the King Farm in Woodstock, Vermont. No commercial revenue model exists; all customers are governmental entities.

Name

Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission

Legal name

Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission

Website

https://trorc.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1970

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission (TRORC) is a Vermont state-chartered regional planning commission providing GIS, land use, transportation, emergency management, and grant administration services to 30 member municipalities across east-central Vermont, funded primarily through state and federal grants.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Woodstock

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Grants and Funding: TRORC operates as a public sector organization funded primarily through government grants from state and federal sources including Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development, Northern Border Regional Commission, and other public funding programs. Revenue supports technical services to member municipalities.
2. Contracted Planning Services: TRORC provides contracted technical planning services to member towns, assisting with town plan development, zoning, subdivision review, and other planning functions. Services are performed under contract with municipalities.
3. Grant Management Services: TRORC manages grants on behalf of member municipalities, bringing federal and state funds to the region including CDBG grants and NBRC funding. Administrative fees and grants support operational costs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

TRORC is a regional planning commission that provides technical planning, GIS/mapping, transportation, emergency management, economic development, housing, energy, environmental, land use, brownfields, and grants management services to its 30 member municipalities in east-central Vermont. It also develops and maintains the Regional Plan, reviews and approves municipal town plans, and facilitates state and federal grant funding for the region.

Product overview

Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission (TRORC) is a regional planning organization serving 30 municipalities in east-central Vermont. Rather than a single software product, TRORC provides a comprehensive suite of planning and technical services including GIS/mapping, regional planning, transportation planning, emergency management, economic development, housing programs, energy planning, environmental planning, land use/zoning assistance, brownfields assessment, training programs, and grants management. The organization operates through advisory committees including the Brownfields Advisory Committee, Clean Water Advisory Committee, Regional Emergency Management Committee, and Transportation Advisory Committee. TRORC develops and maintains the TRORC Regional Plan and provides town plan review and approval services for member municipalities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• GIS/Mapping Services

Quantifiable outcome

• $3 million CDBG-DR grant secured for flood buyouts in December 2025
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 December 2025TRORC received a $3 million Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) grant from DHCD to assist with buyouts of flood-damaged properties from the 2023 floods. Funds will be used primarily in Lamoille and Washington counties to support property acquisitions and site cleanup, including brownfields assessment and remediation.
• Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 December 2025Vermont will receive $8.9 million in NBRC funds for 13 projects aimed at infrastructure, community development, and economic vitality. TRORC coordinates and supports applications for these funds which benefit the region's towns.
• Mount Ascutney Regional CommissionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTRORC partners with Mount Ascutney Regional Commission for joint training workshops including the Essentials of Planning and Land Use series.
• Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTRORC partners with VTrans on transportation planning including Complete Streets training, municipal roads programs, and transportation improvement programs. TRORC represents the region in statewide modal planning efforts.
• Flood Ready VermontcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTRORC collaborates with Flood Ready Vermont to help communities become flood ready through safer development practices, watershed protection, infrastructure adaptation, and emergency preparedness.
• Weston and SampsonminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTRORC's Chief Planner Kevin Geiger co-presented with Weston and Sampson's Resilience Practice Leader Indrani Ghosh at a Dartmouth conference on resilience topics.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Bennington County Regional Commission: Vermont RPC providing regional planning, economic development, GIS, and transportation planning services under the same Vermont RPC statutory framework as TRORC.
• Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC): Largest Vermont RPC; operates the same regional planning, GIS, transportation, and municipal planning model as TRORC at greater scale — a relevant comparable for service breadth and funding capture.
• Windham Regional Commission: Vermont RPC serving Windham County towns with the same statutory regional planning, GIS service center, transportation advisory, and municipal grant administration functions as TRORC.
• Northeastern Vermont Development Association (NVDA): Vermont regional planning commission and EDA-designated Economic Development District serving the Northeast Kingdom; Kevin Geiger (TRORC Chief Planner) previously worked there as Assistant Director, evidencing close functional comparability.
• Addison County Regional Planning Commission: Vermont RPC also overlapping TRORC's Addison County service area; performs identical statutory regional plan development, town plan approvals, and Act 250 review participation.
• Mount Ascutney Regional Commission: Adjacent Vermont regional planning commission explicitly named as TRORC's training partner; serves a comparable role for towns in Windsor County with overlapping statutory planning, GIS, and grant-management responsibilities.
• Rutland Regional Planning Commission: Vermont RPC overlapping TRORC's Rutland County footprint; provides the same suite of regional planning, GIS mapping, transportation, and municipal assistance services to member towns.
• Lamoille County Planning Commission: Vermont RPC covering Lamoille County — the same geography where TRORC's $3M CDBG-DR flood buyout grant is being deployed; performs parallel regional planning and municipal technical assistance.

Broad incumbents

• Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development: State agency that channels CDBG, Municipal Planning Grants, and other planning funds that TRORC intermediates — a larger government counterpart operating at state rather than regional level.
• Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC): Federal-state commission that is itself the source of the $8.9M in funds TRORC helps allocate; comparable as the upstream regional planning and economic development infrastructure funder across VT, NH, ME, and NY.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/trorcvt
• Facebookfacebook.com/TRORC
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/trorc
• Instagraminstagram.com/trorcvt

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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