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ORANGE COUNTY GOVERNMENT <br />TRANSPORTATION SERVICES DEPARTMENT <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Revised: November 24, 2024 <br />non-highway infrastructure in the unincorporated portions of Orange County. It may also be used <br />for other purposes that promote non-vehicular use, examples such as: <br /> <br />• Update and Implementation of OCTS Public Involvement Plan to promote non-highway use <br />• Generate induce demand for non-highway use through County investment <br />• Implementation of County Safe Routes to Schools and other locally approved plans <br />• Establish and implement Reimbursement Agreements (link), Development Agreements <br />(link), Sidewalk Maintenance and Municipal Agreements (Attachment 1 and 2) and other <br />regulatory practices including and not limited to: <br />o County Budget and Ordinances <br />o County Asset Management Services policies and procedures <br /> <br />The MIA fee would be collected by the Planning Department as part of the Development Review <br />process which occurs twice monthly. Periodical – quarterly or annually - the funds would go into <br />the County’s Non-Departmental Capital Improvement Program so that multimodal facilities <br />across the county could be maintained and enhanced. <br /> <br />Charlotte one of the first local governments to implement MA in North Carolina and they <br />accomplished this through their development review process (link). OCTS seeks to do the same <br />in honoring the County Strategic Plan’s Mission Statement. Going forward, all future applicants <br />seeking development review will receive a thorough multimodal report of their MIA. An example <br />of an updated OCTS DAC memo is in Attachment 4. <br /> <br />County advisory boards participated in the development of these tools and provide the following: <br /> <br />Planning Board Recommendation: <br /> <br /> <br />Transportation Advisory Services Recommendation: <br /> <br /> <br />Orange Unified Transportation Board Recommendation: <br /> <br /> <br />I greatly appreciate all that you do for the department and more importantly, the residents of <br />Orange County. Please forward any questions, comments or concerns to me at <br />ntrivedi@orangecountync.gov. <br /> <br />Resources <br />• ASEC – DEI Best Practices: Universal Design (link) <br />• APA – Complete Street: Best Policy and Implementation Practices (link) <br />• AARP – Evaluating Complete Streets Projects (link) <br />• Charlotte UDO – Multimodal Assessment (link)