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D R A F T 2 54 Nish Trivedi: No, the first 13 are seeking your approval for complete street consideration so that they can have the 55 option for any multimodal improvements like sidewalk, side paths, and transit stops paid by NCDOT. Later, I will need 56 you to recommend we study US-70. 57 58 Heidi Perry: Why wouldn’t you say future projects should have Complete Street Policy applied? 59 60 Nish Trivedi: I am getting push back from MPO and NCDOT. They are considering it, but they are not pushing this 61 forward. Right now I’m trying to get local support, your support and BOCC support. If I can show local support, 62 perhaps they will push this forward. I am also showing you the data that goes with them. In your attachment, the first 63 13 sheets include that data that goes with these projects already in the CTP. I don’t want them to go ahead with their 64 amendment and these projects not get Complete Street consideration. 65 66 Heidi Perry: Simply confused by the wording. If they will be considered for Complete Streets great, just use Complete 67 Streets. 68 69 Heidi Perry: Can LOS be removed? 70 71 Nish Trivedi: It is standard practice for NCDOT and MPO because it is used to measure capacity for a road. It is like 72 a letter grade on a road to see if it will fail in the future. It is simply the division of Future Volume over the total 73 Capacity of the road. Due to development, certain corridors in the County will fail in the future. 74 75 Heidi Perry: I understand NCDOT’s use but if we are going to have more people or destinations, we should be 76 thinking more about how we move them without more vehicles on the road. It is tied to road widening. 77 78 Tony Blake: LOS is more about the quality of the road. It is also about how traffic backs up, delays, intersections, 79 signalization, it is used for lot of things. 80 81 Eric Broo: Downtown Chapel Hill took out a couple lanes and driving there was great. Even though LOS has gone 82 down, my enjoyment has gone up. I understand Heidi Perry’s point on LOS and widening. 83 84 Nish Trivedi: Just to clarify. Staff is not recommending any widening. We are not using LOS to widen the road, 85 mainly to show the future failure of the road and something needs to be done about it. 86 87 Eric Broo: When they consider LOS do they consider other modes or just vehicles? 88 89 Nish Trivedi: NCDOT has gotten to use LOS to measure safety of the road. They are working on the data and 90 clarifying it but have not published it. It is supposed to include other users, not just vehicular. 91 92 Eric Broo: NC-86 from Caswell to Chatham cuts through the heart of Chapel Hill. Do they see fright going through 93 the area? I hope truckers don’t take their freight through the campus. 94 95 Nish Trivedi: NC-86 is a strategic freight corridor and it does have some freight. The Chapel Hill has already 96 approved the Locally Preferred Alternative for the NS BRT. 97 98 Nish provided a summary of Environmental Justice Report focusing on County Level analysis. 99 100 Nish Trivedi: When a block group meets multiple county thresholds, it is a Community of Concern. The highlighted 101 areas are the block groups that meet 4 or more overlapping criteria and Communities of Concerns. These are areas 102 that need special focus on transportation improvements. Just to remind everyone, staff is not recommending 103 widening, adding additional lanes or addressing substandard conditions. We are mainly recommending regional 104 corridors like NC and US and part of Orange Grove Road and New Hope Church Road because they are school 105 areas. Like the Access Management Plan, we are recommending these corridors be considered for multimodal. 106 4