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Approved 9/15/10 1 MINUTES 1 ORANGE UNIFIED TRANSPORTATION BOARD REGULAR MEETING 2 MAY 19, 2010 3 4 5 MEMBERS PRESENT: Sam Lasris, Cedar Grove Township; Nancy Cole Baker, Pedestrian Access Safety Advocate; 6 Julian (Randy) Marshall, Bingham Township; Bryn Smith, CFE Representative; Jeff Charles, Bicycle Advocate; 7 Amy Cole, Transit Advocate; Alice Gordon, Board of County Commissioners Liaison; Mary Bobbitt-Cooke, Planning 8 Board Liaison; Al Terry, Transportation Services Board Representative; 9 10 11 MEMBERS ABSENT: Paul Guthrie, Chapel Hill Township; Leo Allison, Cheeks Township; Eric Tillman, Hillsborough 12 Township Representative; Little River Township-Vacant; Economic Development Commission-Vacant; Eno Township 13 Representative-Vacant; 14 15 16 STAFF PRESENT: Craig Benedict, Planning and Inspections Director, Karen Lincoln, Transportation Planner; 17 Mila Vega, Land Use/Transportation Planner; Tina Love, Administrative Assistant II 18 19 20 OTHERS PRESENT: Felix Nwoko, City of Durham Transportation, Lead Planning Agency for DCHC MPO 21 22 23 I. Call to order 24 25 26 II. Consideration of additions to the agenda 27 28 Jeff Charles requested the Board discuss the proposed bicycle law that has been introduced. 29 30 Nancy Baker requested the Board discuss the parking at the Justice Facility. 31 32 33 III. Approval of Minutes 34 35 The OUTBoard approved the minutes from April 21, 2010 by affirmation. 36 37 38 IV. Orange County Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP) 39 40 Karen Lincoln introduced Mila Vega to the Board. She advised that NCDOT will be collecting data over the summer 41 and will develop a deficiency analysis of highways. It should be ready in September or October. The CTP 42 Committee should start meeting again when the deficiency analysis has been completed to select alternatives 43 scenarios for highway, bike, and transit plans and schedule the public workshops. She advised the public workshop 44 will probably be scheduled towards the end of the year or in January. Karen advised she will have a schedule for 45 completing the CTP at the next OUTBoard meeting. She noted the OUTBoard and other boards will have input and 46 the data projections and deficiency ananlysis and alternatives will go to the BOCC for endorsement and comment. 47 She noted that CTP Committee would then develop a draft recommended Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP) 48 and there would be another public work shop to present it for comments. The recommended draft CTP will also be 49 presented to the advisory board and to the BOCC for comments. All those comments will be used to prepare a final 50 CTP. Karen anticipated development of the recommended CTP in the spring 2011, with the second public workshop 51 in late spring. The final plan would be developed over the summer for public hearing and BOCC 52 consideration/approval in the fall. 53 54