Browse
Search
Agenda - 02-07-2012 - 8c
OrangeCountyNC
>
Board of County Commissioners
>
BOCC Agendas
>
2010's
>
2012
>
Agenda - 02-07-2012 - Regular Mtg.
>
Agenda - 02-07-2012 - 8c
Metadata
Thumbnails
Annotations
Entry Properties
Last modified
11/12/2015 1:51:37 PM
Creation date
2/6/2012 8:51:17 AM
Metadata
Fields
Template:
BOCC
Date
2/7/2012
Meeting Type
Regular Meeting
Document Type
Agenda
Agenda Item
8c
Document Relationships
Minutes 02-07-2012
(Linked From)
Path:
\Board of County Commissioners\Minutes - Approved\2010's\2012
RES-2012-020 Resolution to Approve the Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA) for the Durham Orange County Transit Corridor
(Linked From)
Path:
\Board of County Commissioners\Resolutions\2010-2019\2012
There are no annotations on this page.
Document management portal powered by Laserfiche WebLink 9 © 1998-2015
Laserfiche.
All rights reserved.
/
36
PDF
Print
Pages to print
Enter page numbers and/or page ranges separated by commas. For example, 1,3,5-12.
After downloading, print the document using a PDF reader (e.g. Adobe Reader).
View images
View plain text
34 <br /> Attachment K <br /> RESOLUTION TO APPROVE <br /> THE LOCALLY-PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE (LPA) FOR <br /> THE DURHAM-ORANGE COUNTY TRANSIT CORRIDOR <br /> February S, 2012 <br /> A motion was made by TAC Member and seconded by TAC <br /> Member for the adoption of the following resolution, and upon <br /> being put to a vote, was duly adopted. <br /> WHEREAS, the Special Transit Advisory Commission (STAC)recommendations in May 2008 <br /> included rail transit extending from Raleigh to Durham to Chapel Hill; and <br /> WHEREAS,the Durham-Chapel-Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (DCHC <br /> MPO) incorporated the STAC rail transit into the adopted 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan <br /> in April 2009; and <br /> WHEREAS, the North Carolina General Assembly approved the Congestion Relief/Intermodal <br /> Transport bill in August 2009 that enables local areas to fund public transportation through an <br /> increase in sales tax, car registration fees and special district property taxes; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Triangle Transit Authority(TTA) implemented the Triangle Regional Transit <br /> Program in 2010 to study the financial, ridership, environmental and public input aspects of <br /> regional bus and rail transit, and subsequently conducted a visioning process and Transitional <br /> Analysis to study rail corridors in Durham, Orange, and Wake counties, and <br /> WHEREAS, the TTA completed an Alternatives Analysis on the three highest-performing <br /> corridors that included the Durham-Orange corridor in.luly 2011 and issued an Addendum to the <br /> "Detailed Definition of Alternatives Technical Report" in August 2011 which clarified that <br /> reasonable alternatives to the proposed alignments crossing the Little Creek and New Hope <br /> Creek areas will be studied; and <br /> WHEREAS, the TTA and the DCHC MPO have both conducted comprehensive public <br /> involvement activities,which included public workshops, public hearings and presentations to <br /> local elected boards, for the visioning process, Transitional Analysis and Alternatives Analysis; <br /> and <br /> WHEREAS, light rail transit technology has a greater potential to promote economic growth <br /> and focus transit-supportive development around station areas as compared to bus rapid transit <br /> technology; and <br /> WHEREAS, alignment option A3 in the UNC station area is supported by the Town of Chapel <br /> Hill, UNC at Chapel Hill, and UNC Hospitals and would allow for future extension of the <br /> alignment to the west to possible destinations such as downtown Chapel Hill, downtown <br /> Carrboro and the Carolina North Campus; and <br />
The URL can be used to link to this page
Your browser does not support the video tag.