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8 b) Orange County Transit Plan Steering Committee Update In 2012, the Board of Orange County Commissioners along with the Durham-Chapel Hill Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization and GoTriangle adopted the Orange County's first comprehensive Transit Plan. This Plan was funded using a newly adopted Article 43 Half-Cent Sales Tax, and it included investments in new and expanded bus service, new capital infrastructure projects such as the Chapel Hill North-South Bus Rapid Transit Project, the Hillsborough Train Station, and the Durham-Orange Light Rail Project. In March 2019, the Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit Project was discontinued. This project was central to the Transit Plan. It was the Plan's primary investment, represented a critical partnership between Durham and Orange counties, and served as the transit infrastructure around which other transit services and growth strategies were planned. In response to the discontinuation of the light rail project, a staff team began the process of creating a potential planning framework to create a new Orange County Transit Plan that prioritizes investments, funds service improvements, and improves the resiliency of the public transit network. In November 2019, the Board of Orange County Commissioners approved a planning framework to update the Transit Plan. The new Plan would outline transit investment priorities through 2040. This planning effort will be led by a Policy Steering Committee. The County and each municipality appointed representatives to this committee in December. The Policy Steering Committee will provide direction and guidance to a consulting team responsible for analyzing data, facilitating public input processes, soliciting feedback from specific stakeholders, and drafting the new Transit Plan. The first meeting of the Policy Steering Committee will be scheduled by the end of January. No Attachments c) HOME Consortium Project Update Orange County Housing and Community Development Director Emila Sutton has provided the two attachments noted below as updates. Attachment 40 — Orange County Local Government Affordable Housing Collaborative — Update for Assembly of Governments: January 2020 Attachment 4c2— Local Housing Plans d) Update on Orange County Northern Campus Project The Orange County Northern Campus, located off of Highway 70 in Hillsborough, is currently under development. The Board of Commissioners accepted a Guaranteed Maximum price and construction commenced in September 2019. This project includes the construction of three different facilities: