Agenda - 11-01-2022; 5-c - 2022 Orange County Transit Plan Update

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01 introduction. 2 Investing in Transit In 2012, residents of Orange County approved a half-cent sales tax equity or equality? to fund transit service and infrastructure improvements.Additional EQUITY funding is generated for transit through a vehicle rental tax and CONNECTION vehicle registration fees. Transit revenues and expenses are ' understand ' discussed in more detail in the"Funding"section of this plan. achieved through thoughtful $3 Vehicle • • planning, • - nt Registration Rental to consider differences FeeCar BUS STOP between equality and transit $7 Vehicle equity. While they are similar, Registrationconcepts Feenterchangeable. Equalitymeans •_ • exactly the same - most people associate •-, . or • on tihe other hand, acknowledges prejudices have l-• to social and structural others.imbalances and situations where some groups 112 cent Transit Sales Tax benefit (or experience adverse impacts) more than • imbalances requires lLnequal distribution of benefits or mitigation of adverse •. Debates about the concept of equity often stem from belief Revenue Sources Supporting Transit in Orange County yields similar outcomes. But this perspective- North Carolina's General Statutes require the County to create a fails to acknowledge • - l treatment in financial plan describing how transit tax revenues will be spent. the '' we're notstarting ' ut Transit tax revenues must be used to provide new or improved at the same place - • some of our - • •• service - they cannot be used to pay for transit service that is must struggle just to get to the starting already being provided by the county. The first of these plans, the Orange County Bus and Rail Investment Plan, was adopted in This means that without a deliberate 2012.The Orange County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC), on equity - condition of GoTriangle, and the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan equality. Planning Organization (DCHC MPO) also executed an Interlocal Implementation Agreement (ILA) in 2012, describing a process for the implementation and oversight of the Orange County Bus and The Orange • ••- " Rail Investment Plan. The ILA established a Staff Working Group attempts to move us closerto rectifying (SWG) including representatives from Orange County, GoTriangle, disparities in access t• services, goods, and DCHC MPO.The SWG reviews transit planning implementation and opportunities. Proposed projects were progress and supports updates to the Plan in response to changing measured, assessed, • prioritized community needs and priorities or to make changes to projects or determine who would benefit and where the implementation plan and schedule.The plan was last updated _ experienced, _ _ _ ensuring in 2017 as the Orange County Transit Plan. benefits � • • � • - more equitable distribution of the benefits of Both the 2012 and 2017 Plans centered around the Durham-Orange transit investment. Light Rail Transit (D-O LRT) project, with a significant portion of funding being allocated to its planning and implementation.When the D-O LRT project was discontinued in March of 2019, it was necessary to update to the county's transit plan.