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1 <br />r <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 6, 1999 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # ` <br />SUBJECT: Proposed Bicycle Plan Component to the Transportation Element of the Comprehensive Plan <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning & Inspections <br />PUBLIC HEARING: Yes _X —No <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Slade McCalip, extension 2595 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />- 3/4/99 Draft Planning Board Minutes <br />Hillsborough <br />-732-8181 <br />- 3/19/99 S. McCalip Memo <br />Durham <br />-688-7331 <br />- Draft Text Bike Route Descriptions <br />Mebane <br />-227-2031 <br />- Draft Bike Route Letter Designation Map <br />Chapel Hill <br />-967-9251 <br />- 2/22/99 Draft Joint Public Hearing Minutes <br />- 8/5/98 Planning Board Minutes <br />- Draft Bicycle Transportation Plan <br />PURPOSE: To consider a draft Comprehensive Plan Amendment for the update to the Transportation Element <br />of the Comprehensive Plan. <br />BACKGROUND: The Bicycle Plan Component Task Force was appointed by the Orange County Board of <br />Commissioners on November 19, 1997 with the following specific charge: To prepare a Bicycle Plan <br />Component to the Transportation Element of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan, including <br />recommendations for implementation, for all of Orange County outside of the municipal extra- territorial <br />planning jurisdictions and the transition areas of the Joint Planning Land Use Plan. To perform research for <br />presentation to the Orange County Board of Commissioners on innovative bicycle and pedestrian connections <br />between subdivisions and other developments. The Bicycle Plan Component should be based on the <br />recommendations in the DCHC Regional Bicycle Plan and the results of the 1995 Orange County Bicycle <br />Suitability Study. Appointment to the Task Force will expire with the Hoard of Commissioners' decision on <br />whether or not to adopt the recommended Bicycle Plan Component. <br />The Bicycle Plan Component Task Force created the Draft Bicycle Transportation Plan over a 6 -month period. <br />The Task Force provided their input as to what the Goals of this plan should be and also which cycling routes <br />are the most important to the cyclists of Orange County. Staff was then directed to develop a plan with <br />recommendations for implementing the goals and making improvements to the priority routes. The Task Force <br />endorsed the draft plan contained herein at their June meeting. <br />At the Planning Board's August 5, 1998 meeting the Board accepted the draft plan and forwarded it on to the <br />Commissioners with the recommendations as made by the Bicycle Plan Component Task Force and modified <br />by the Planning Board (see recommendations 1 through 4 listed in last paragraph below). <br />At the Joint Public Hearing held on February 22, 1999, the Board of Commissioners considered the draft plan. <br />