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254 more leverage in ensuring that there's consistency with other plans and documents that are adopted by 255 the county that the climate action plan would be adopted. It was adopted recently, and it will be updated 256 every two to four years, so be ensuring that is implemented through this process. Then use the short- 257 range transit plan to further recommend improvements. 258 259 S. Appel: Is there a way that we can put in the opening statement something about the fact that we are 260 that we hope, or we urge the DOT to use this as a guidance document? Can we say that explicitly? 261 262 N. Trivedi: Yeah, absolutely. 263 264 L. Triebert: Yeah, we can do that. 265 266 N. Trivedi: And you can also extend this to ensuring consistency with the County's Climate Action Plan 267 and other adopted policies. 268 269 L. Triebert:And, you know from the point of view of NCDOT, but when they go into starting a project such 270 as a widening of US 70 in the future, a review of previous plans like this is done, and is included in part 271 of the, the NEPA documentation. And that's where, if plans like these are "on the books", that's when 272 complete streets policy from DOT starts to kick in as far as them being required to build it and pay for it. 273 Now, as opposed to previously, where they might have had to build it, the cost share might have been 274 different between DOT and the communities. 275 276 N. Trivedi: And this is this comes from the experience we had with Chapel Hill. The 15-501 corridor was 277 recently completed last year and included the New Hope area between Durham and Chapel Hill. Well, 278 the study was completed but it was not adopted and because it was not approved NCDOT went ahead 279 and redesigned the interchange and the improvements and now Chapel Hill later came back and said, 280 oh, we had had the study done and DOT came back and said you didn't approve it. So, you cannot use 281 the study that was not approved as oh we changed our mind. It has to be adopted to be able to be used 282 as leverage, otherwise, DOT will say not it's on the books and we don't recognize it. 283 284 L. Triebert: But I think adding specific wording Sherry to just state that this is a guidance document for 285 the future widening of US 70 is a good add for sure. 286 287 N. Trivedi: The next one is Greg. 288 289 G. Woloszczuk: Excellent. Appreciate and thanks for coming. So, it sounds like we'll have a follow-up in 290 the April meeting. This is really to help kind of prep for those questions. 291 292 L. Triebert: Correct. 293 294 G. Woloszczuk: So, I'll just give my questions. I don't need any answers today, but I think back to the 295 earlier part when it kicked off the meeting for me. What would help is almost like an elevator pitch. We 296 had the four core goals that we wanted to achieve. How can we speak to that with a little bit of data? 297 Because if we say we're going to improve traffic, but then we're going to lower speed limits, how do we 298 quantify that? Because this is going to be very expensive. So how do we say well, by doing this, this is 299 what we see, and by how much? I'm a data person, so when we invest in stuff, I want to know how we 300 see the return on that investment. And we're not back in four or five years saying, oops, yeah, we said 301 we are making it faster, and we slow down the roads instead. I'm not concerned about whether we widen 302 the four lanes or not. It's probably needed, but I would like to see when we talk about slowing down, the 303 same thing with the access into some of the parkways, and the greenways. If we have to go back out 304 and talk to our fellow neighbors, how would we finish this and say, well, we said we're going to improve