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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 3, 2001 <br />Action Age d <br />Item NO. ]�_ <br />SUBJECT: Orange County Transportation Priority List for 2004 — 2010 TIP <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1. Draft Lefterto DCHC MPO Karen Lincoln, ext. 2GB3 <br />2. Proposed Priority List for 2004 -2010 MTIP Craig Benedict md. 2592 <br />3. Draft Lefterto NC Board of Transportation TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />4. Proposed Priority List for 2004 -2010 TIP Hillaborough 7324181 <br />5. EDD Tranapodatlon Wortgroup Recommendations Chapel Hill 91 <br />6. Project Request Fors Durham 688 -7331 <br />Mebane (336)2274031 <br />PURPOSE; To consider Orange County's Transportation Priority Projects for the 2004 — 2010 <br />Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). <br />BACKGROUND: Biannually, the North Carolina Boats of Transportation (BOT) adopts a multi- <br />year State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) that species needed transportation <br />improvements across the state. The process starts with local junst ictions drafting local <br />transportation priority lists. Federal and state regulations provide for public input into the process. <br />Orange County's transportation priority needs list has two sections. One section deals with <br />selected pmects within the Dunham Chapel Hill- Canboro Metmpolitan Planning Organisation <br />(DCHC MPO) planning boundary . The second section deals with projects in the remaining pointers <br />of Orange County which lie outside of the Durham - Chapel Hill- Canboro metropoltan planning area. <br />Orange County's transportation priority list for the projects within the Metropolitan Planning Ares <br />(MPA) must be submitted to the DCHC MPO in November. The Transportation Advisory <br />Committee (TAC) will then hold a public input meeting and the North Carolina Department of <br />Transportation (NCDOT) will meet with the MPO in January or February to discuss the MPO's <br />Prentiss. <br />NCOOT held a TIP Public Input Meeting on October 30. 2001 for areas in Division 7 that are not <br />represented in a Metropolitan Planning Organization; however, NGDOT and NCBOT will accept <br />written requests for Nose projects through December 2001. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: None at this time. <br />RECOMMENDATION: The Administration recommends that the Board approve the attached <br />Orange County Transportation Priority Lists for the 2004 -2010 TIP. <br />