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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 8, 2004 <br />Action Age d <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Resolution Providing Comments Regarding Proposed Changes to the Durham- <br />Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization Metropolitan Area <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Resolution <br />2. Map <br />3. Response to Memorandum from DCHG MPO LPA <br />Regarding Expansion of MAB <br />4, 9/30/03 Assembly of Governments Meeting Minutes <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict, ext. 2592 <br />Karen Lincoln, ext. 2594 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane (336)227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: Ta provide comment to the Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) of the <br />Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro (DCHG) Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) regarding <br />expansion of the DCHC MPO Metropolitan Area Boundary (MAB), <br />BACKGROUND: At the May 12~' TAC meeting, the Lead Planning Agency (LPA) for the DCHC <br />MPO presented a proposal to expand the Metropolitan Area Boundary (MAB) and offered technical <br />justification for the inclusion of all of Orange County in the MAB, Attachment 2 contains the LPA's <br />rationale and justification along with the Planning Department's response to each item, <br />Metropolitan Planning Area Boundaries, as stated in 23 U,S,C, §134, "shall encompass at least the <br />existing urbanized area and the contiguous area expected to become urbanized within a 20-year <br />forecast period". <br />The fallowing options to expand the MAB are shown on the map on Attachment 3: <br />• Option 1 -Areas labeled with a number 1 in the blocks- is a "smoothing" of our boundary <br />using streets or highways for boundaries. <br />• Option 2 -Area labeled with a number 2 - is the addition of the Option 1 area and the area <br />shown with a number 2 located east of the MAB of the Burlington MPO (I-40/1-85 corridor <br />area west of Hillsborough). <br />• Option 3 -Area labeled with a number 3 - is the addition of Options 1 and 2 and the area <br />labeled with the number 3 (south western Orange County), <br />• Option 4 -Area labeled with a number 4 - is the addition of Options 1, 2, and 3 and the area <br />labeled with the number 4 (northwest Orange County), In essence, this takes in all of <br />Orange County except that portion currently in the Burlington MPO. <br />