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Attachment 1 3 Follow-Up to BOCC February 2, 2010 Meeting The BOCC, on February 2, 2010, voted to continue development of the Comprehensive Transportation Plan with a phased plan for improvements to NC 86 with no explicit endorsement by the Board, and requested specific information regarding: • Process for approval • Regional options • Assumptions underlying designation of the NC 86 as a strategic highway corridor • Relationship of the comprehensive Transportation Plan to the Orange County Land Use Plan • What is being contemplated to include public comment before the approval of the Comprehensive Transportation Plan The following responses help clarify the Comprehensive Transportation Plan process including opportunities for public input, the Strategic Highway Corridors Vision Plan assumptions and relationship between the Land Use Plan and the Comprehensive Transportation Plan. Process for approval. Orange County must adopt the Comprehensive Transportation Plan before the North Carolina Board of Transportation will consider it for adoption. The BOCC must hold a public hearing prior to adopting the plan. Regional options. Attachment 1(a) is a map of Pittsylvlania County, Virginia, and Caswell, Person, Alamance and Orange Counties in North Carolina showing the major transportation routes. NC 86 is the most direct route, and the one that traffic will continue to use, from the metropolitan Danville area to the Chapel Hill/Durham metropolitan area. Transferring traffic through other existing corridors in northern Orange County would also negatively impact the rural character of the County. Assumptions underlying designation of NC 86 as a strategic highway corridor. Attachment 1(b) is a Strategic Highway Corridors Reference provided by North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) staff that worked on the project. The document makes specific reference to NC 86, and indicates how NC 86 characterizes primary criteria used to designate the strategic highway corridors. Those characteristics include: • Mobility -Serves long-distance and/or regional travel including long haul trucks (is a truck route), tourists, and other motorists passing through a region. • Connectivity - Provides a vital connection between activity centers Durham-Chapel Hill- Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (Durham/Chapel Hill area, Research Triangle Park, Raleigh-Durham International Airport, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Hospitals, North Carolina Central University, Duke University and Medical Center) and Danville, Virginia (Danville Metropolitan Planning Organization). • Interstate Connectivity -Provides an important connection between existing interstate (140/85 at Hillsborough) to Future I-785/US 29 in Danville, VA. Relationship of the comprehensive Transportation Plan to the Orange County Land Use Plan - The relationship between land use and transportation is noted in the relationship/links to the goals and objectives of the relative elements of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan. Attachment 1(c) is the full text of related goals/objectives from the Land Use Element and the Transportation Element of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan abbreviated below.