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Attachment 1: Resolution Reprioritizing Order of Projects for the TARPO Regional 4 <br />Priority List (RES- 2014 -039) <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE RECONFIGURATION OF ORANGE COUNTY'S PRIORITY <br />TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS FOR THE TRIANGLE AREA RURAL PLANNING <br />ORGANIZATION ( TARPO) REGIONAL PRIORITY LIST FOR THE 2016 — 2022 STATEWIDE <br />TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM <br />WHEREAS, the North Carolina Board of Transportation (BOT), every two years, prepares a Statewide <br />Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) that identifies transportation projects to be implemented <br />over the next seven years with State and Federal funding; and <br />WHEREAS, the North Carolina BOT solicits input for identifying transportation projects of local and <br />regional importance to be included in the FY 2016 -2022 STIP; and <br />WHEREAS, North Carolina has established Rural Planning Organizations (RPOs) to coordinate <br />regional transportation planning in rural areas in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of <br />Transportation ( NCDOT); <br />WHEREAS, Orange County is a member of the Triangle Area Rural Planning Organization ( TARPO) <br />charged with developing and prioritizing proposed transportation projects that the RPO believes <br />should be included in the STIP; <br />WHEREAS, Orange County gives priority to identified safety needs on existing roads and bridges, to <br />transportation projects that encourage alternatives to automobile travel, to projects that minimize <br />adverse impacts on the natural environment and cultural sites, and to those projects that foster <br />economic development in the County's designated Economic Development Districts; and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County strongly encourages the NCDOT to design all highway projects, where <br />appropriate, to accommodate bicycle and pedestrian traffic to provide alternative means of <br />transportation that may result in reduced automobile traffic and related air and water impacts; and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County encourages the NCDOT to design all new or replacement bridges with <br />sufficient clearance to allow wildlife to cross safely under them, and to allow pedestrian passage along <br />any existing or planned trail- system connectors; and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County previously outlined its transportation needs within the TARPO planning <br />area on November 19, 2013; and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County has reconfigured its transportation project priorities in ranked order within <br />the TARPO planning area in an attachment to this resolution; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Orange County Board of Commissioners that the <br />Board endorses the following prioritized list of transportation projects in the TARPO planning area to <br />supersede the transportation project priority list for the TARPO planning area previously approved by <br />the Orange County Board of Commissioners on November 19, 2013, for consideration in the the FY <br />2016 -2022 TARPO regional priority list: <br />NC 54 Widening: Widen NC 54 from Orange Grove Road (SR 1006) to Old Fayetteville Road <br />(SR 1937/1107) from a two (2) -lane undivided thoroughfare to a four (4) -lane divided <br />boulevard type thoroughfare. <br />