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with the Comprehensive Transportation Plan, which is why it is coming forward now. She said <br /> that the strategic highway corridors is where NCDOT will be spending most of its funds. <br /> Commissioner Yuhasz asked for some information about what NCDOT was thinking <br /> when it designated NC 86 as a strategic corridor. Karen Lincoln said that NCDOT was looking <br /> at regional connections (Danville to this area). Commissioner Yuhasz said that it would be <br /> helpful to know if NCDOT considered NC 49 or NC 119. He said that this vision plan is not <br /> going to be just locally determined because it is a statewide plan. <br /> Commissioner Yuhasz said that it sounds like, with Option 3 ( from the Manager's <br /> recommendation), that DOT will continue to work with Orange County on a local transportation <br /> plan and giving Orange County the opportunity to continue to question whether or not NC 86 <br /> needs to be built this way. He said that it is better to be engaged then disengaged. <br /> Chair Foushee asked, if the County Commissioners were to endorse Option 3 ( from <br /> the Manager's recommendation), if it would preclude the Board from doing the things that are <br /> suggested. <br /> Karen Lincoln said that there is no guarantee that NC 86 would be removed from the <br /> state plan. <br /> Commissioner Gordon said that she does not believe it would take that much time for <br /> the Board to review the requested information. She said that the Board did not have the pros <br /> and cons, background information, sufficient maps, and the regional plan. She does not think <br /> it would take too much time to get this. <br /> Craig Benedict said that staff could produce a regional map to provide better context. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs said that he would like to know if the designation also assumed <br /> that the Elizabeth Road Bypass was going to be in place around Hillsborough. He suggested <br /> a compromise resolution. <br /> A motion was made by Commissioner Jacobs, seconded by Commissioner Hemminger <br /> to endorse Option 3 (listed below from the Manager's recommendation) to continue <br /> development of the Comprehensive Transportation Plan with a phased plan for improvements <br /> to NC 86 with no explicit endorsement by the Board of Commissioners, and request specific <br /> information regarding: <br /> • Process for approval <br /> • Regional options <br /> • Assumptions underlying designation of NC 86 as a strategic highway corridor <br /> • Relationship of Comprehensive Transportation Plan to the Orange County Land Use <br /> Plan <br /> • What is being contemplated to include public comment before the approval of the <br /> Comprehensive Transportation Plan <br /> Option 3 — Show NC 86 as a future expressway with a phased improvement plan in the <br /> technical report. Work on Orange County's Comprehensive Transportation Plan would <br /> continue as planned. <br /> Survey question twelve offered seven options for designating a north-south corridor from <br /> Caswell County to US 70 Bypass as a four-lane divided expressway. Respondents could <br /> select more than one option. Of the 387 survey responses, approximately 63% chose to use <br /> the existing NC 86 corridor (with a narrow margin preferring a new western bypass of <br /> Hillsborough). Over twenty-one percent (21.4%) chose "Do not improve NC 86 to an <br />