Agenda 01-16-24; 8-h - Approval of Orange County 2022 Transit Plan Public Hearing Records

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7 10 Following is a list of key process milestones carried out by the Renaissance, PSC, transit service providers and staff teams: • Bi-monthly staff meetings with progress updates for the PSC during the 2020 calendar year (May 2020) • Completed the Transit Choices Brochure (TCB), a visual document that illustrates the concepts and continuums of transit planning, and the Regional Connections Opportunity (RCO) Report, a technical assessment of key issues and opportunities for effective transit service (July 2020) • Held the first Transit Summit over the Zoom platform and documented key themes from the summit discussions and first public survey (October 2020) • Developed draft versions of conceptual scenarios and graphics with an accompanying memo (January 2021) • Held recurring monthly PSC meetings over Zoom with updates for first half of 2021 (January 2021 —June 2021) • Received final versions of conceptual scenarios and graphics with an accompanying memo (May 2021) • Held an in-person Transit Summit for PSC members to discuss core values and visions for the fiscally-constrained plan and learned of aspirational future projects (July 2021) • Received draft recommended network and plan as well as draft conceptual vision map for transit service provider feedback and scheduling of future PSC meetings (October 2021) • Held PSC Work Session #1 to look at the final recommended network and conceptual vision map with goal of beginning round 2 of public outreach (January 2022) • Created public outreach opportunities with a second round of surveying (over 1,000 surveys were collected) and two focus groups (held on February 81" and February 1611) that included local stakeholders (February 2022) • Held PSC Work Session #2 to look at the feedback received from public outreach and assess the draft network, which resulted in a request to provide check-in presentations to the local elected boards (March 2022) • OUTBoard received a presentation on the draft Transit Plan Update (April 2022) • Orange County BOCC received a presentation from its consultant on the draft Transit Plan Update (April 2022). The projects and service improvements included in the draft received by the BOCC last April are the same as those included in the final Draft plan for current consideration by the BOCC along with a recommendation to add funding to the Chapel Hill North-South Bus Rapid Transit Project to facilitate the project's application for eighty percent (8051o) federal funding. • Held PSC Work Session#3 to present a final draft of the plan updated with feedback from the transit service providers, the local elected boards and the PSC (May 2022) • Consultant delivered final report (including appendices) to Orange County Planning Staff in preparation for fall 2022 adoption timeline (August 2022) The complete 2022 Orange County Transit Plan Update, including Appendix, as well as the 2017 Orange County Transit Plan, can be downloaded via the following link: https://www.orangecountync.gov/DocumentCenterNiew/21099/2022-Orange-County-Transit- Plan-Update?bidld= Policy Steering Committee (PSC) Recommendation: At its May 20, 2022 meeting, the PSC recommended the draft 2020 Orange County Transit Plan Update for consideration by the adopting parties, beginning with Orange County, and as outlined below. The PSC also met on October 14, 2022 to consider and provide a recommendation specific to Chapel Hill Transit's