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<br />Commissioner Willhoit said that if the outcome of the Stoney
<br />Creek Area Plan is low density cluster option, then this plan would be
<br />void.
<br />Transportation Planner Slade McCalip said that the County does
<br />have control over the Land Use Plan for the County.
<br />Jim Ritchie explained that they would start first with the
<br />heaviest existing population between Duke University and Raleigh and then
<br />add North Raleigh. The corridors with the next highest demand are between
<br />Durham and Chapel Hill along 15-501 and last add a link to the airport.
<br />They expect that work to be finished around 2010. This is just a master
<br />plan to begin to work from and they will do additional feasibility studies
<br />before doing anything. If the residents want to move the plan faster,
<br />they would need to increase development densities and if they don't want
<br />to, they shouldn't approve higher densities.
<br />Slade McCalip offered an amendment to the resolution that would
<br />specially say that this does not lock in the University Station or Stoney
<br />Creek area to anything. It was decided to change #E to state "That the
<br />Plan state that station areas will be studied in Orange County for
<br />possible extension of Regional Rail Service. Examples of two areas that
<br />could be studied are the vicinity of the intersection of New NC 86 and I-
<br />85 and the Buckhorn Economic Development District area."
<br />A motion was made by Commissioner Willhoit, seconded by
<br />Commissioner Halkiotis to approve the resolution as stated below and the
<br />recommendations as listed below the resolution.
<br />RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE PRELIMINARY RECOMMENDATIONS
<br />FOR A REGIONAL TRANSIT PLAN
<br />WHEREAS, in 1989, the NC Legislature, Durham, Orange and Wake Counties,
<br />the Cities of Durham and Raleigh and the Towns of Cary and Chapel Hill,
<br />created the Triangle Transit Authority to finance, provide, operate and
<br />maintain a safe, clean, reliable, convenient, energy efficient, economical
<br />and environmentally sound public transportation system, in order to
<br />enhance mobility and encourage sound growth patterns; and
<br />WHEREAS, in 1990, during their joint meeting, the Greater Raleigh and
<br />Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Transportation Advisory Committees adopted a
<br />Land Use and Public Transportation Action Agenda in which the Triangle
<br />Transit Authority, in coordination with local governments and appropriate
<br />regional agencies, was directed to evaluate possible corridors and fixed
<br />guideway technologies for potential implementation; and
<br />WHEREAS, with the support and funding of the State and the participation
<br />of the units of local government, the Triangle Transit Authority received
<br />a Federal Transit Administration grant and initiated the Triangle Fixed
<br />Guideway Study to determine the desirability, feasibility and location of
<br />a fixed guideway transit system; and
<br />WHEREAS, the Triangle Transit Authority has worked cooperatively with the
<br />public, elected and appointed officials, managers and staff from Durham,
<br />Orange and Wake Counties, the Cities of Durham and Raleigh, the Towns of
<br />Cary, Chapel Hill, Apex, Carrboro, Fuquay-Varina, Garner, Hillsborough,
<br />Holly Springs, Knightdale, Morrisville, Rolesville, Wake Forest, Wendell
<br />and Zebulon, the NC Department of Transportation, the Triangle region's
<br />institutions, major employers, economic and real estate development,
<br />financial, transportation and other public and private sector agencies,
<br />business and community groups, on this Study; and
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