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<br /> <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br />ORANGE UNIFIED TRANSPORTATION BOARD (OUTBoard) <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: April 4, 2016 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 4a <br /> <br />SUBJECT: North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) Strategic Planning Office <br />of Transportation (SPOT 4.0) Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and <br />Rural Planning Organization (RPO) Project Priority Lists <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1. Prioritization Table <br />2. DCHC MPO Project List Map <br />3. TARPO Project List Map <br />4. B-G MPO Project List Map <br />Max Bushell, Transportation Planner, <br />919-245-2582 <br />Abigaile Pittman, Transportation/Land <br />Use Planner, 919-245-2567 <br />Tom Altieri, Comprehensive Planning <br />Supervisor, 919-245-2575 <br />Craig Benedict, Planning Director, <br />919-245-2585 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />PURPOSE: Despite not receiving the project scores for the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro <br />MPO (DCHC MPO), the Burlington-Graham Metropolitan Planning Organization (B-G <br />MPO), and the Triangle Area Rural Planning Organization (TARPO) planning areas of <br />Orange County from the NCDOT Strategic Planning Office of Transportation (SPOT) office <br />for Prioritization 4.0 (P4.0) in time for this meeting, transportation planning staff has <br />prepared preliminary priority ranking lists of projects for each MPO/RPO. The intent of this <br />agenda item is to solicit the feedback of the OUTBoard on these staff-suggested priority <br />project lists for each MPO/RPO and discuss any applicable changes. Upon the receipt of <br />the scores from the SPOT office, transportation planning staff will use the OUTBoard’s <br />approved priority list to reconcile the scores. If possible, the OUTBoard-approved priority <br />lists will not be altered. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: Without receiving the project scores from the SPOT 4.0 process for the <br />three transportation planning organizations in Orange County (DCHC MPO, B-G MPO, and <br />TARPO), Orange County transportation planning staff prioritized projects to create a <br />preliminary priority ranking list for each MPO/RPO planning area. Using a similar <br />methodology to the SPOT P3.0 process, staff prepared priority ranking lists for all <br />submitted projects, using the process outlined below. <br /> <br />Orange County Prioritization: The process used by Orange County transportation planning <br />staff to evaluate projects for consideration under this iteration of the SPOT prioritization <br />process examines the five factors listed below in order of importance.