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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 1, 2008 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. (p — b <br />SUBJECT: Resolution Submitting Comments Regarding Options for the Durham - Chapel <br />Hill - Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization's Draft 2035 Long Range <br />Transportation Plan <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1. Resolution <br />2. OUTBoard Recommendation Karen Lincoln, 245 -2594 <br />3. Table of Four (4) Transportation Craig Benedict, 245 -2592 <br />Options <br />4. Maps of Transportation Projects <br />5. 2035 LRTP Transportation Options <br />Report (Previously Provided Under <br />Separate Cover) <br />PURPOSE: To consider a resolution submitting comments to the Durham - Chapel Hill - Carrboro <br />(DCHC) Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) <br />regarding transportation systems proposed for the Preferred Option for the Long Range <br />Transportation Plan (LRTP). <br />BACKGROUND: Every four years the DCHC MPO updates the LRTP. The 2035 LRTP will list <br />the highway, transit, bicycle, and other transportation projects and services to be implemented <br />between 2008 through the year 2035 to best meet the expected transportation demand in the <br />region. The LRTP is fiscally constrained, and includes revenue sources to pay for the projects <br />and services. Transportation projects and services must be in the LRTP in order to receive <br />state and federal funding. <br />The Board of Commissioners, at its meeting on September 22, 2008, received a presentation <br />and endorsed comments regarding the Triangle Regional Model results /analysis for <br />combinations of various transportation alternatives and land use alternatives being studied to <br />assess the effect those scenarios would have on future traffic and congestion. The MPO staff <br />reviewed comments received from the local jurisdictions and the public and has prepared four <br />(4) transit options and one (1) option each for highway, bicycle, and other transportation modes <br />for further study. The four (4) options look at each of the four (4) transit options paired with the <br />projects proposed for the highway, bicycle, and other modes. Attachment 3 lists the four (4) <br />options followed by maps (Attachment 4) of each transit option, the highway option, and the on- <br />road and off -road bicycle /pedestrian options. <br />The full transportation options report also includes cost and traditional revenue forecasts for <br />each of the four (4) options and revenue forecasts for two local revenue sources, '/2 cent sales <br />