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DRAFT 26 Attachment 6 178 179 Karen Lincoln: One map of Orange County and one for each of the plans so there will actually be five maps. 180 181 Mark Marcoplos: Sounds like there are elected representatives from Durham, Chapel Hill, etc. all part of this. Can any one 182 representative hold up the process? 183 184 Karen Lincoln: Things are decided by the whole Board. They could delay things certainly. The Board usually respects the 185 wishes of their members. 186 187 Mark Marcoplos: They don't work on consensus so if it comes to a vote at a certain point.... 188 189 Karen Lincoln: Yes, what will happen they will be updated periodically. NCDOT will probably have finished their deficiency 190 analysis before being presented to the Board of County Commissioners. To start this off, we anticipate a presentation to the 191 Board of County Commissioners in September. The presentation will be from NCDOT and members DCHC and a member from 192 TARPO will be part of the presentation. This is being developed in coordination with the other organizations. At that meeting, the 193 part of that is to instruct them on what the process is, what they can anticipate and to gain their approval to continue from there. 194 We have a survey we have been developing. The website is www .surveymonkey.com /orangecounty. None of the responses 195 will be counted until after it is presented to the Commissioners so they can see the survey. If you would like to take the survey 196 and send comments to me that would be fine. 197 198 Larry Wright: What is data collected? 199 200 Karen Lincoln: The way the data is usually gathered is called Transportation Analysis Zones and those are defined by the 201 Census. We look at population and employment or other places like shopping centers. You look at how many people are there 202 that are going to be moving around and how many places are there that people will be coming to and they have models that they 203 calibrate to known data. They are not perfect they are just models. It is an indication, by calibrating them to existing data, you 204 know what the average annual daily traffic is on all the major roads and when you set up your models, you run them and come 205 up with a formula that basically replicates closely the observed traffic on these roads. The model is used to project based on the 206 local land use plans and how we with the population will be and where and where the business is going to be. They project 207 what they think the traffic will look like on existing road systems 20, 30, etc. years down the road. When they get that type of 208 traffic, they can tell whether the roads can handle it or whether there is a shift in the pattern. 209 210 Larry Wright: I think I understand. 211 212 Mary Bobbitt- Cooke: Roads define how you will grow. When the MPO and the RPO sit down and they look at what the planning 213 department has put together where the economic zones are and such and they also look at where growth is now, I am just 214 wondering if these Boards really are going to define our growth over the next 20 years. But they do have to look at what the 215 economic development wants; what our infrastructure is planning to be? 216 217 Karen Lincoln: They look at the local land use plans to determine what the population densities will be how many people will go 218 here and here. 219 220 Larry Wright: What is the public workshop? 221 222 Karen Lincoln: Did anyone attend the workshop that Hillsborough held for the trading station. That was an open house. We are 223 trying to do something like that. There were two presentations. One started at 4:00 PM and went on until 10:00 PM. There were 224 surveys, maps, a short presentation and people available to answer questions. There will be a presentation on the process, 225 what we are trying to do, and the kind of input they are looking for. 226 227 Larry Wright: Kind of like a public hearing and a work session too? 228 229 Karen Lincoln: It is a workshop to gather information. 230 231 Larry Wright: Will there be any public hearing? 232 233 Karen Lincoln: Yes. There will be a public hearing at the Durham Chapel Hill Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization and 234 the Board of County Commissioners will have to hold a public hearing. The goal is to have a public workshop then develop 235 alternatives and during that time I intend to have interaction with this Board. 236