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1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 18, 2008 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~ - Q <br />SUBJECT: Report on Options for the Preferred Option and Draft Durham-Chapel Hill- <br />Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization 2035 Long Range Transportation <br />Plan (LRTP) <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Table of Four (4) Transportation Options <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Karen Lincoln, 245-2594 <br />2. Maps of Transportation Projects <br />3. 2035 LRTP Transportation Options Report <br />(Under Separate Cover) <br />Craig Benedict, 245-2592 <br />PURPOSE: To receive a verbal report from the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro (DCHC) <br />Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Lead Planning Agency (LPA) regarding the <br />options being considered for the Draft 2035 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP). <br />BACKGROUND: Every four years the DCHC MPO updates the Long Range <br />Transportation Plan. The 2035 LRTP will list the highway, transit, bicycle, and other <br />transportation projects and services to be implemented from 2008 through the year <br />2035 to best meet the expected transportation demand in the region. The LRTP is <br />fiscally constrained, and includes revenue sources to pay for the projects and services. <br />Transportation projects and services must be in the LRTP in order to receive state and <br />federal funding. <br />The Board of Commissioners, at its meeting on September 22, 2008, received a <br />presentation and endorsed comments regarding the Triangle Regional Model <br />results/analysis for combinations of various transportation alternatives and land use <br />alternatives being studied to assess the effect those scenarios would have on future <br />traffic and congestion. The MPO staff reviewed comments received from the local <br />jurisdictions and the public and has prepared four (4) transit options and one 1 option <br />each for highway, bicycle, and other transportation modes for further study. The four (4) <br />options look at each of the four (4) transit options paired with the projects proposed for <br />the highway, bicycle, and other modes. Attachment 1 lists the four (4) options followed <br />by maps of each transit option, the highway option, and the on-road and off-road <br />bicycle/pedestrian options. <br />