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<br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />ORANGE UNIFIED TRANSPORTATION BOARD <br /> <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: September 16, 2020 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 5.a <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization <br />Comprehensive Transportation Plan Amendment <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br /> <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1. Staff Recommendations <br /> <br />Nishith Trivedi, Transportation Planner, <br />919-245-2582 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />PURPOSE: <br />To provide recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) on Orange <br />County’s portion of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization <br />(DCHC MPO) Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP) Amendment. <br /> <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: On August 19, Orange Unified Transportation Board (OUTBoard) received a <br />presentation on Orange County’s CTP, focusing on DCHC MPO CTP Amendment. This <br />amendment seeks to coordinate potential highway improvement projects in Orange County to <br />NCDOT’s new Complete Street Policy, to “encourage non-vehicular travel without compromising <br />the safety, efficiency, or function of the facility”. This policy gives NCDOT the opportunity to <br />consider paying for non-highway improvements as facilities that lie within improved highway <br />projects through NCDOT’s new Cost Share (section 6 of the new Complete Street <br />Implementation Guide): <br /> <br />• In CTP – NCDOT pays full – pedestrian and on road bicycle facility, side path, greenway <br />crossing, bus pull out, bus stop (pad only) <br />• Not in CTP but Needs Identified – NCDOT pays full – on road bicycle facility <br />o All other project types are based on a cost share by local jurisdiction using new <br />percent cost-share based on population. <br />o Needs Identified are non-highway projects in locally adopted plans (e.g. local <br />bike/ped or transit plans) <br />• Betterment – Local jurisdictions pay for all non-highway improvements. <br />o Section 6.3 describes this as “A requested bicycle, pedestrian or public <br />transportation improvement that exceeds the recommendations appearing in an <br />adopted plan and/or exceeds the needs identified through the project development <br />process” <br /> <br />Staff requests OUTBoard review and recommend BOCC approve Attachment 1 and submit it to <br />DCHC MPO for inclusion in the CTP Amendment project list. Below is summary of staff request: <br />7