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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 2, 2004 Action Agenda Item No. ~~ SUBJECT: Comprehensive Transportation Plan Update for Orange County DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): 1. Draft Letter to Scott Walston, NCDOT 2. Letter from Pat Strong, TJGOG Rural Trans, Planner INFORMATION CONTACT: Craig Benedict, ext, 2592 Karen Lincoln, ext. 2594 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane (336)227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider asking the Transportation Planning Branch of the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCUOT) to conduct the comprehensive update for an Orange County Comprehensive Transportation Plan. BACKGROUND: Orange County is currently in the process of updating the land use element of the comprehensive plan and it is desirable to develop the complementary transportation plan in a similar timeframe, NCDOT prepared the mast recent thoroughfare plan report for Orange County in 1990. NCDOT's Triangle Planning Unit Supervisor is identifying and prioritizing that unit's work activities for Fiscal Year 2005. The attached letter is a request to NCDOT to conduct the comprehensive update for the Orange County Comprehensive Transportation Plan in Fiscal Year 2005. The North Carolina General Assembly, in 2001, updated and modified the process for development of coordinated transportation plans considerate of all transportation modes, but not limited to the street system, transit alternatives, bicycle, pedestrian, and operating strategies. The legislation provides that counties may develop a transportation plan with the cooperation of NCDOT using the same criteria for municipalities for portions of the county not included in a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO). (The MPO is responsible for comprehensive transportation plans for portions of the county within an MPO.) NCDOT may participate in the development of a comprehensive transportation plan (CTP) for a jurisdiction that has adopted a land use plan within the previous five (5) years, or is in the process of developing a land use plan; however, NCDOT may not adopt the CTP until the jurisdiction adopts a local land development plan, NCDOT is in the process of developing new standards for developing a comprehensive transportation plan far mutual adoption by NC Department of Transportation and Metropolitan Planning Organizations and local governments not within an MPO. The product, the comprehensive transportation plan, will be a series of five maps (adoption sheet -overall plan,