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<br />To: Assembly of Governments Meeting <br />From: Karen Lincoln, Transportation Planner, Orange County Planning <br />Date: Apri125, 2005 <br />Re: Homestead/High School Roads Sidewalk Development Update <br />The NCDOT Division 7 Engineer met with members of the Homestead and High School <br />Roads Safety Task Force on April 11, 2005, to explain the current status of the project to <br />construct sidewalks on the north side of Homestead Road from High School Raad to <br />Rogers Road and on Rogers Road from the existing sidewalk at Glenbrooke subdivision <br />to Homestead Road, <br />1, NCDOT has not included the sidewalks in the two-year (2004 - 2005) NC Moving <br />Ahead program, which has now been extended to three years because of budget <br />issues. <br />2, There are no funds programmed for the sidewalk project. NCDOT would fund the <br />highway project in the NC Moving Ahead program in FY 2006, if that program is <br />continued. NCDOT will not know if the NC Moving Ahead program will be <br />continued past the original 2-years, <br />An NCDOT budget issue has prompted NCDOT, starting in .lanuary 2005, to delay <br />programmed projects, While NCDOT has the money that has been allocated for <br />programmed projects, if NCDOT continues to start new construction projects, costs will <br />outpace the yearly available allocation for such projects in the near future. <br />The NCDOT Division 7 Engineer identified the following list of actions that must take <br />place in order to construct the sidewalks in FY 2006, <br />1. The Division 7 Engineer will write David King's Office to request money to <br />construct sidewalks on the north side of Homestead Road from Camden Road to <br />Rogers Road and on the east side of Rogers Road to connect the existing sidewalk to <br />Homestead Road. <br />2. The Division 7 Engineer will include a project in the NC Moving Ahead program for <br />Orange County for improvements to provide for additional pavement, curb and gutter, <br />right-of--way acquisition, and utility relocation on Homestead Road between Camden <br />Lane and Rogers Road, and on a portion of Rogers Road north of Homestead Road. <br />.3. The Orange County Board of Commissioners, the Canboro Board of Aldermen and <br />the Chapel Hill Town Council will provide letters to the Division 7 Engineer and <br />copies to the Division 7 Board of Transportation Member requesting that NCDOT <br />