Agenda - 10-05-2021; 6-c - Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan

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2 transportation facilities. It is very unlikely that one of the Alternatives in its entirety would be advanced as the Preferred Option. Most likely, the final MTP will be a combination of the various Alternatives. Attachment 3 provides the full schedule of MTP Local Input meetings on the Alternatives Analysis. Press releases and public engagement events have been posted on the County's website throughout the planning process. More information on the 2050 MTP can be found on DCHC MPO 2050 MTP website. MPO Next Steps Over the next few months, the DCHC MPO Board will use comments collected from the public and local governments to direct the development of a Preferred Option. The Preferred Option becomes the Draft 2050 MTP, which is anticipated to be released in October 2021. The Final 2050 MTP is tentatively scheduled to be adopted by the MPO Board in December 2021. Staff Involvement Orange County Transportation Planning staff attends bi-weekly meetings at Triangle J Council of Government (TJCOG) where TJCOG, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Institute of Transportation Research and Education (UNC ITRE), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO), DCHC MPO, and local technical staff discuss every aspect and detail of the Community Viz model and the Triangle Regional Model (TRM). Both programs analyze the transportation network in a comprehensive and multimodal manner. The TRM is vetted by multiple agencies including UNC's ITRE (ITRE), TJCOG, CAMPO, and DCHC MPO technical staff. Throughout the planning process, Orange and Durham County staffs worked with local jurisdictions and regional agencies in multi-step data review including: • Community Viz — Current and Future Land Use parcels, including Certificate of Occupancy • Network Analysis — Road network data review, including lane and shoulder width • Employment Analysis — Point data for all places of employment Attachment 4 is a list of Orange County (including municipal) major highway projects in the Alternatives Analysis. Any specific comments on the list are welcome at this time and may assist with the selection of highway projects to be included in the Preferred Option (Draft 2050 Plan). Transit, bicycle and pedestrian project lists are not yet available from the MPO. However, it is expected that the Orange County transit projects will be initially taken from the Orange County Transit Plan (2017) and any new or different projects resulting from the Transit Plan Update (2021) will be incorporated at a later date. Key highlight in Draft 2050 MTP highway projects: • Due to the financial constrained nature of the MTP, when highway projects are removed, they are replaced by other highway projects per state and federal transportation funding regulations. o Example: Orange Grove Road extension (2045 MTP) was removed from the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). This allows for Orange County's priority — NC-86 improvement from US-70 to NC-57 — to be added to the 2050 MTP. OUTBoard Action On September 15, 2021, the Orange Unified Transportation Board (OUTBoard) provided the memo at Attachment 5 for the BOCC's consideration. Highlights of OUTBoards comments are provided below: