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Public Engagement Summary <br /> Public Open House Meeting <br /> Public meetings were a key component of the engagement plan. Orange County held two open house <br /> style workshops,the first on Tuesday, April 23 at Whiffed Building in Hillsborough, and the second on <br /> Thursday, April 25 at Southern Human Services Building in Hillsborough. Members of the community <br /> were invited to stop by and view display boards that presented the multimodal improvements and speak <br /> with study team members who were available to explain the plans, answer questions, and collect public <br /> input.The open house format of these meetings allowed participants to review the information at their <br /> own pace. When they arrived, attendees were asked to sign in, provide their contact information, and <br /> were encouraged to take the online study survey. Four participants attended the first meeting, and two <br /> attended the second. <br /> There were five display boards exhibited at each public <br /> 2 <br /> s'o - <br /> meeting; the boards are shown as figures 16 through ��.,�.. <br /> 22 in Appendix B. Participants were greeted with an <br /> introduction board by the check-in table which ' _ T7 - <br /> explained the TMP, its context, and presented a QR <br /> code for the online survey. The second boardit <br /> displayed a map of roadway projects, including <br /> congestion/mobility improvements, new <br /> developments, and other improvements.The third <br /> board showed a map of bicycle and pedestrian projects <br /> with new routes for bicycle paths, sidewalks, multi-use Figure 1. Welcome station at the first public meeting <br /> paths, and bicycle and pedestrian bridges.The fourth <br /> board presented a map of transit and rail projects that included fixed guideways,fixed bus corridors, <br /> Amtrak stations, and park and ride lots. <br /> The fifth and final board offered an engagement activity that asked <br /> participants how they would allocate$100 of funding to <br /> transportation.The engagement board contained three boxes that <br /> represented roadway, pedestrian and bicycle, and transit and rail <br /> improvement projects.Attendees were given ten stickers with a <br /> hypothetical value of$10 each and were asked to distribute their <br /> stickers among the three categories however they wished.This <br /> activity emulated questions from the online survey and allowed the <br /> Figure 2.Residents reviewing study team to capture additional data about which areas of <br /> recommendation maps improvement the community valued most. Figure 3 below shows <br /> the activity board and its results. During the first meeting there were four participants,two of whom <br /> completed the sticker activity. Bicycle and pedestrian projects received the most support, with $100, <br /> followed by roadway projects at$60, and transit and rail projects at$40. One participant added an <br /> additional sticky note comment that read "NC complete streets is highway biased but allows DOT to help <br /> pay for bike/ped". <br />