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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 21, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. _ q - b <br />SUBJECT: Transportation Improvement Program Comments <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager, Planning 8~ PUBLIC HEARING: (YlN) Nv <br />Inspections <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br /> INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1. 10/16/00 Planning Department John Link, ext. 2300 <br />Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Gene Bell, ext. 2589 <br />Program Document to Commissioner Karen Lincoln, ext. 2594 <br />Gordon and Draft TIP Division 7 Highway <br />Program for Orange County (under TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />separate cover) Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />2. TIP 2-yr. development schedule Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />3. DCHC MPO press release for public Durham 688-7331 <br />comment period Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />4. Draft letters and comments to MPO and <br />BOT member <br />PURPOSE: To provide the opportunity for BOCC members and the Board as a whole to make <br />comments and take possible positions on future transportation plans in and around Orange <br />County. <br />BACKGROUND: At the October 17, 2000 BOCC regular meeting, Commissioner Alice Gordon <br />distributed a package of information from the Planning Department on the Transportation <br />Improvement Pragram in and around Orange County. It was noted that the Board and/or <br />individual Baard members might want to provide feedback on these materials and the future <br />transportation plans. <br />After reviewing the attached information on this year's STIP and MTIP development process, <br />the Board may submit comments regarding the proposed TIP in the following ways: <br />a. By providing written comments to the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning <br />Organization (DCHC MPO); <br />b. By providing written comments to North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) <br />Division 7 and by way of presentation at the Draft TIP Comment Meetings, and <br />c. By meeting with and/or providing written comments to Orange County's Board of <br />Transportation Member. <br />