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OR AN G E C 0 U N T Y <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: December 19, 1995 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item #,X-A <br /> SUBJECT: STATUS REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REGIONAL BICYCLE PLAN <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING Yes x No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Slade McCalip <br /> Extension 2595 <br /> Draft Resolution on THE DCHC REGIONAL TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> BICYCLE PLAN Hillsborough-732-8181 <br /> Draft Orange County Bicycle Suitability Durham -688-7331 <br /> Study-October 95 (w/o Appendices A&B) Mebane -227-2031 <br /> Application (portion) for Bicycle Chapel Hill -967-9251 <br /> Awareness Grant <br /> C. Yates letter of Nov. 17, 1995 <br /> PURPOSE: To receive a status report on the implementation of the <br /> Regional Bicycle Plan and consider adoption of a <br /> resolution that the Regional Bicycle Plan be used as a <br /> guideline in the development of a Bicycle Component to the <br /> Transportation Element of the Orange County Comprehensive <br /> Plan. <br /> BACKGROUND: In December of 1993 the Transportation Advisory Committee <br /> (TAC) of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro (DCHC) <br /> Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) approved the <br /> Regional Bicycle Plan (RBP) . The TAC then referred the <br /> plan to the local governments within the DCHC Urban Area <br /> for use as a bicycle planning guideline. On June 28, 1994 <br /> the Orange County Board of Commissioners received as <br /> information a report on the recommended implementation of <br /> the Regional Bicycle Plan and referred to the Planning <br /> Board the development of the following: <br /> a) a resolution for consideration by the BOCC concerning <br /> adoption of the RBP as a planning guideline for <br /> bicycle facilities in Orange County, <br /> b) a Bicycle Route Suitability Study, and <br /> c) a curriculum of bicycle awareness programs (to be <br /> developed jointly with the Board of Education) . <br /> Since that time the Planning Board has received three <br /> presentations on the Bicycle Suitability Study. The first <br /> described a Pilot Study performed to adjust the <br /> methodology as described in the Regional Bicycle Plan. <br />