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Approved3/21/18 6 Art Menius, reading off the web, said that 1,129 UNC employees live in AlamanceCounty, which is a little under 10 269 percent.270 271 NishTrivedinotedthe corridor itself is convenient to Chatham County and Raleigh. He thenreviewedalist of public 272 workshops. The next workshops will take place in early May and will give the public an opportunity to comment on 273 the consultant’s recommendations. 274 275 Alex Castro asked how the public isbeing informed of these meetings. NishTrivedi answeredthe consultant firm 276 conducting the corridor study gave Orange County a press release to put on the web. The firm connected with the 277 county communications director to broadcast in newsletters two weeks before the meeting, the week before, and the 278 day before. 279 280 Heidi Perry and Alex Castro asked if it was advertised at UNC. Nish Trivedi answered that he was not sure but 281 everyone onthestakeholder list was given the information.He will follow up by asking how UNC was involved. 282 283 NishTrivedireviewed that the draft plan will be done by September.284 285 Alex Castro asked if traffic counting was ongoing. Nish Trivedi said he thinks most of the traffic counting wasdone on 286 weekdays and some on weekends. 287 288 Heidi Perry asked is the goal to try to accommodate more traffic or to reduce the amount of traffic.289 290 Nish Trivedi said the plan is designed to address all the issues pointed out to the consultants by providing variety of 291 recommendations at the conclusion of the study.292 293 Nish Trivedi said consultants did some calculationsand projections 20 years out. There’s an argument for widening. 294 Residents say they don’t want that but rather want bike/pedestriansafety and transit.295 296 Heidi Perry said my point is it isa given there willbe more traffic. She thinksthe goal should be toreducetrafficand 297 not to accommodatean increase, which is what happens if a bigger road is built. 298 299 Alex Castro said the NC119 traffic is coming down from the outlet, Cone HealthMedcenter, and Alamance300 Community College.301 302 David Laudicina noted there is a large Honda factory on NC 119.There was brief speculation on where the people 303 who work at that factory might live. 304 305 Heidi Perry said no one in this room knows where the people using the NC 54 corridor live. Wejust guess. Someone 306 canfind out wherethe Alamance Community College students live.307 308 8B.SPOT5.0LOCAL INPUT POINTS FOR TARPO,DCHC AND B-GMPO(NISH TRIVEDI)309 310 Nish Trivedi presented informationand apologized that it was not on the January agenda, which would have allowed 311 for this board to have input. He explained that each MPO has to put together aprocess approved by NCDOT. The 312 Triangle AreaRural Planning Organization (TARPO)process has been adopted. We cannot make anymore changes 313 to that process. It is too late for input for DCHC,too.314 315 NishTrivedisaid the two MPOsand TARPO are going to accept NCDOT scores. The qualitative part is different. 316 TARPO requires that the county prioritizeprojects. Orange County has two regional projects and three divisional 317 projects. He’ll discuss those morein April after NCDOT releases the scores in late March. DCHC MPO basesthe 318 prioritizationon their input process which is more quantitative and does not require any action.319 320 Alex Castro asked about TARPO. Are the other threecounties subjected to the fragmentation. Does Sanford. Nish 321 Trivedi answeredSanford is in Lee County. Orange County isthe easiest because we have no cities in TARPO. 322