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9 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> ORANGE UNIFIED TRANSPORTATION BOARD <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: April 21, 2021 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 4.b. <br /> SUBJECT: DCHC MPO CTP Amendment #3 <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1. CTP Report Nishith Trivedi, Transportation Planner, 919- <br /> 245-2582 <br /> PURPOSE: Review the Orange County Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP) <br /> Amendment #3 and provide comments that will be submitted to Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro <br /> Metropolitan Planning Organization (DCHC MPO). <br /> BACKGROUND: On August 8, 2019, the North Carolina Department of Transportation <br /> (NCDOT) adopted a new Complete Streets Policy, to "encourage non-vehicular travel without <br /> compromising the safety, efficiency, or function of the facility". Subsequently, NCDOT <br /> distributed a Complete Streets Implementation Guide that specifies, "The adopted CTP will be <br /> considered the controlling plan for the identification of non-motorized facilities to be evaluated <br /> as part of a roadway project." <br /> The new Complete Streets Policy gives NCDOT the opportunity to consider paying for <br /> multimodal facilities - bike lanes, sidewalks, side paths, bus stop pullouts and pads - when <br /> they are part of roadway improvement projects through NCDOT's new Cost Share (section <br /> 6 - Complete Streets Implementation Guide). NCDOT will not consider projects until they are <br /> included in the CTP. Highway projects are then subject to inclusion in the Metropolitan <br /> Transportation Plan (MTP), NCDOT's Strategic Prioritization of Transportation (SPOT) <br /> process and funding in the Strategic Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) before <br /> becoming reality. We have an opportunity to include these types of multimodal features on <br /> our roadway projects only if the projects in Attachment 1 are included in the CTP. <br /> The CTP is the first step in a series of plans that need to be completed before a project is <br /> funded. The CTP is to represent the `universe' of possible projects and is not fiscally <br /> constrained. Projects in CTP eventually progress to the Metropolitan Transportation Plan <br /> (MTP) and some MTP projects are submitted for the states Strategic Prioritization of <br /> Transportation (SPOT). <br /> General Example: <br /> • CTP — 100 projects (not financially constrained) <br /> • MTP —40 of the 100 projects (finically constrained) <br /> • SPOT — 10 of the 40 projects (numerically constrained by STI law) = 10% CTP projects <br />