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2 The Board of Commissioners approved its priority list March 15' 2005 (Attachment 2, pages 48 - 51), Two of Orange County s priority projects rank in the top 26 of the 44 projects submitted by Orange County jurisdictions (top 22 of the 87 projects submitted by all local jurisdictions in the MPO). The following lists Orange County's priorities compared to Division 7 and regional priority ranking: Oran e Count Priorit Division 7 Priorit Regional Priorit 1. Oran e Grove Road edestrian brid e over I-40 3 9 2. Homestead Road im rovements 20 43 3. Im rovements to South Churton Street 2 7 4. Old NC 86 bic cle lanes 28 55 5. NC 86 bic cle lanes 20 43 6. NC 86 Im rovements north of Hillsborou h 44 86 7. US 70 B ass Widenin 43 85 8. Eno Mountain Rd./Mayo St./Orange Grove Rd. intersection reali nment 20 43 9. Oran e Grove Rd. extension to US 70 Business 27 53 TAC members may request that the regional priority ranking of a project be switched with the ranking of another project submitted by the same jurisdiction to ensure that the local jurisdiction's priorities are addressed. For example, Orange County may request that bicycle lanes on Old NC 86 (Orange County priority 4, Division 7 pricrity 28) be moved to Division 7 priority 20 in place of bicycle lanes on NC 86 (Orange County priority 5, Division 7 priority 20) and vice versa. The TAC will also decide the ranking for projects scaring the same number of points, which are all represented having the same rank in the draft regional priority list, For example, three of the seven projects having a rank of 20 in the Division 7 list (Figure 5) are Orange County priorities. Only one of the seven projects will have a final priority of number 20 (43 in regional list in Figure 3). The other projects having a rank of 20 will take their places from priority 21 to priority 26 (priority 44 to priority 52 in the Regional Priority List (Attachment 2, Figure 3), The attached resolution also addresses TIP Project I-0305, widening of I-85 from I-40 to the Orange/Durham County Line, The NCDOT MPO Coordinator has asked the Lead Planning Agency to rate that project using the ranking criteria used far other projects in the regional priority list, and to include it in the final draft priority list that will be considered by the TAC, "because of the project's importance to the Department" (Attachment 3, letter from Michael Orr). That letter was sent in response to an action taken by the TAC at its meeting on August 10, 2005. The TAC, at its meeting on August 10, 2005, adopted a Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP) for FY 2006-2012 that was different from the 2006-2012 STIP recently approved by the NGDOT. One of the differences concerned the description of Project I-0305. The TAC approved the description only "to reconstruct interchanges and structures", Attachment 3 (page 52) is the letter from the NCDOT MPO Coordinator in which he gives reasons to reinstate the project description that includes widening I-85 to six lanes in the 2007-2013 TIP. Orange County has previously submitted comments regarding other features desired by the County as part of the project. Those comments are included in the attached resclution, FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no financial impact associated with this item,