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1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 15, 2013 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 7 -c <br />SUBJECT: Resolutions to Endorse Orange County's Priority Transportation Projects for the <br />Durham - Chapel Hill - Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization and the <br />Trianqle Area Reqional Planninq Organization <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. TARPO and DCHC MPO Priority <br />Lists Submitted in 2011 <br />2. Resolution Endorsing Projects for <br />the TARPO Regional Priority List <br />3. TARPO Project Descriptions and <br />Recommendations <br />4. TARPO Project List Map <br />5. Resolution Endorsing Projects for <br />the DCHC MPO <br />6. DCHC MPO Project Descriptions <br />and Recommendations <br />7. DCHC MPO Project List Map <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Bret Martin, Transportation Planner 919 - 245 -2582 <br />Tom Altieri, Comprehensive Planning Supervisor, <br />919- 245 -2575 <br />PURPOSE: To consider two (2) resolutions (Attachments 2 and 5) endorsing two (2) priority <br />lists of transportation projects within the Durham - Chapel Hill - Carrboro Metropolitan Planning <br />Organization (DCHC MPO) and the Triangle Area Regional Planning Organization ( TARPO) <br />planning areas for consideration of inclusion in the 2016 -2022 Statewide Transportation <br />Improvement Program (STIP). <br />BACKGROUND: At the BOCC's September 17, 2013 meeting, the BOCC considered and <br />approved a list of new priority transportation projects to submit to the Burlington- Graham <br />Metropolitan Planning Organization (BGMPO) for the portion of Orange County within that <br />MPO's planning area. That list has since been submitted to the BGMPO. As a continuation of <br />the process of submitting priority projects for consideration and inclusion in the 2016 -2022 STIP <br />to the three (3) transportation planning organizations covering Orange County, project priority <br />lists for both the DCHC MPO and TARPO were developed by staff and considered and <br />recommended to the BOCC for approval /endorsement by the OUTBoard at the OUTBoard's <br />September 18, 2013 meeting. The OUTBoard made no changes to the staff - recommended <br />priority lists for the DCHC MPO and TARPO. <br />Staff Proiect Ranking Methodology <br />Generally for both priority lists, the starting point for staff and the OUTBoard was to carry <br />forward those projects submitted as the County's project priorities to both TARPO and the <br />DCHC MPO from the last iteration of project prioritization in 2011 that have a prior history of <br />