Agenda 09-03-19 Item 12-5 - Information Item - Memorandum-NCDOT Corridor Updates – NC-54 West, S. Churton Street and Orange Grove Road Extension

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1 PLANNING & INSPECTIONS DEPARTMENT Craig N. Benedict, AICP, Director Administration 131 W. Margaret Lane (919) 245-2575 Suite 201 (919) 644-3002 (FAX) ORANGE COUNTY P. O. Box 8181 www.orangecountync.gov NORTH CAROLINA Hillsborough, NC 27278 MEMORANDUM TO: Board of County Commissioners FROM: Nishith Trivedi, Orange County Transportation Planner CC: Craig Benedict, Orange County Planning Director Tom Altieri, Comprehensive Planning Supervisor DATE: September 3, 2019 SUBJECT: NCDOT Corridor Updates — NC-54 West, S. Churton Street and Orange Grove Road Extension This memo is to provide an update to the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) on some North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) corridors: NC-54 West, S. Churton Street and Orange Grove Road Extension. NC-54 West On February 5, 2019, the BOCC approved a project within the NC 54 West corridor from the Orange County/Alamance County line to Old Fayetteville Road as one of County's transportation priorities for Strategic Prioritization of Transportation (SPOT) 6.0. This is a regional corridor involving multiple jurisdictions including: • North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT); • Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (DCHC MPO); • Triangle Area Rural Planning Organization (TARPO); • Burlington-Graham Metropolitan Planning Organization (BG MPO); • Alamance County; and • Orange County. The 20 mile corridor is a primary east-west route connecting Graham and Carrboro. Orange County contains 10 miles of the corridor, of which 1.8 miles is in Carrboro's Extra Territorial Jurisdiction. It extends around southern Carrboro and Chapel Hill and goes onto NC-54 East, allowing commuters to continue to Durham, Cary, and Raleigh. This regional corridor has gone through an extensive publicly-involved corridor study in 2018 with every local jurisdiction and MPO/RPO participating through its unique public processes. Due to the conclusions of the NC-54 West Corridor Study and the project's quantitative- based success through the last prioritization process SPOT 5.0, NCDOT Division submitted project H-140374-A, widen NC-54 West from Orange Grove Road to Old Fayetteville Road, NCDOT was prepared to invest $83,000,000 in southern Orange County if the MPO and RPO had put local input points on the project. NCDOT Division did put its points on the project, but without local points from MPO and RPO; it didn't scores well enough to get funded.