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Overview of Proposed CMAQ Project The proposed project would include a 125 -space park and ride lot with transit shelter combined with new transit service to facilitate non - automobile travel and reduce automobile traffic in downtown Hillsborough. The park & ride lot would provide a place for people from outside the Metropolitan Area Boundary to access transit services, and would also provide a place where carpools and vanpools can meet. Project Description Park & Ride Lot, Transportation Center The proposed location of the park & ride lot transportation center is a 20 -acre county - owned parcel, which will be the site of a new Durham Tech satellite campus, located in Waterstone, a 337 -acre mixed use development currently under construction in south Hillsborough, off the east side of Old NC 86 near Interstate 40. The Durham Tech satellite campus is scheduled to open fall of 2006. Waterstone, anticipated to be completed in 2014, will contain 134 single - family houses, 128 townhome /patio homes (part affordable housing), 271 apartments, a day care, a hotel with restaurant, the previously mentioned 20 -acre community college site, a continuing care retirement center (280 units at different care levels), a 3 -acre civic -use site, 450,000 square feet of retail space, 408,000 square feet mixed use, and 150,000 square feet of office space. The 20 -acre Durham Tech site is adequate to house the proposed 40,000 square -foot community college structure with parking and the proposed 125 -space park & ride lot and transit shelter. Durham Tech officials have indicated their approval of siting a park and ride lot on the campus. As a part of this application, Orange County proposes to install a transit shelter at the justice complex as well as at the park and ride lot. The estimated cost of the park and ride lot and transit shelters is $135,676. This location will provide a convenient place for county residents, particularly those having business at the county justice complex, to access transit to downtown Hillsborough. Expansion of the justice facility, scheduled for completion in 2006, will eliminate some of the 100 (approximate) parking lot spaces, which are currently not enough to accommodate court traffic. Clients currently park off the paved surface in areas not designated for parking as well as along both sides of the street in front of the courthouse. The Clerk of Court and Senior Assistant estimate that approximately 80,000 people per year attend Orange County Superior Court, which, on a busy day, has 400 cases on the docket. That figure does not include people attending civil court, child support court, juvenile court, criminal Superior Court, nor selection of jurors. Court has a morning session and an afternoon session, with different "set" of clients attending each session. The transportation center will also provide a convenient stop /transfer point for current OPT service between Hillsborough and Chapel Hill. Page 1 of 4