N.C. CAPITAL AREA
METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION
TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE
November 15,
2006, 2006
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Wake County Commons
Building
4012 Carya
Dr
Raleigh, NC
AGENDA
1. Preliminaries
2. Adjustments to
the Agenda
3. Public Comments
This is an opportunity for comments by those
in attendance on items not on the agenda. Please limit comments to three
minutes for each speaker.
Consent Agenda
All items on the consent agenda are considered to
be routine and may be enacted by one motion. If a Councilor requests discussion
on an item, the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered
separately.
4. Approval
of Minutes of September 20, 2006 TAC Meeting.
The minutes of the
September 20, 2006 TAC meeting, are enclosed as Attachment 4A.
TAC Action: Approval of the minutes of the September 20,
2006 TAC meeting.
5. Comprehensive
Transportation Plan
The Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP) is the multi-modal
long-range vision plan which depicts the transportation infrastructure needs to
adequately handle an area’s travel demand for a 25 to 50 year period. Changes in state law in 2001, mandated that
NCDOT develop CTPs to replace thoroughfare plans.
Unlike the MPO’s Long-Range Transportation Plan
(LRTP) which must be fiscally constrained to existing and reasonably
foreseeable new revenue, the CTP may include plan elements thought to be
necessary and desirable, but may be beyond the reach of available revenue to
implement. As such, in MPO areas the CTP
is also sometimes referred to as the Comprehensive Transportation “Vision
Plan”.
Over the past two years, staff has been working with NCDOT and
representatives of member governments to develop the various elements of this
plan (highway, public transportation and rail, bicycle, and pedestrian). The next logical step in the process is
release of the Draft CTP for public review and comment to be followed by
consideration of approval of the CTP thereafter in early to mid 2007. Staff provided the draft CTP to the TCC at
its November 2, 2006 meeting. The TCC
has forwarded the CTP to the TAC with the recommendation that staff be preauthorized to release the CTP for public review and
comment for a period of at least 45 days once the draft CTP documents have been
being finalized and available for public review sometime in December 2006. During the public comment period meetings
will be held throughout the MPO planning area to assist the public with
understanding and commenting on the draft CTP.
TAC Action: Authorize
Capital Area MPO staff to release draft CTP for public review and comment for a
minimum period of 45 days beginning in December 2006.
6. Socioeconomic
(SE) Data Release
In the fall of 2005 the Capital Area MPO partnered with Wake County Public
School Systems (WCPSS) and ITRE’s Operations Research
Education (ORED) Lab to develop a parcel based land use forecasting
methodology. Municipal planners input future land use and growth rate
data into a county database that was used to develop student forecasts for the
WCPSS and dwelling unit forecasts for 2010, 2015, 2025, and 2035. These data
have also been utilized to develop employment forecasts to also serve as
required land use input data the Triangle Regional Model (TRM). These new SE data forecasts will serve as the
basis for updating the region’s MPOs’ current 2030 LRTPs to 2035 over the next two years.
Staff has developed draft SE Data forecasts for the portions of Granville,
Franklin, Johnston, and Harnett counties that are included in the TRM. Attachment
6A
reflects the draft SE Data forecasts for all of the MPO’s
counties. Detailed forecasts were made available to municipal planners
for closer review via the CAMPO FTP site. Review is occurring at this
time and changes may be made to the data, based on input from municipal
planners.
The next step in this process is to release the Socioeconomic data to the
public for review and comment. The TCC received the information at its November
2, 2006 meeting and forwarded it to the TAC with the recommendation that staff
be authorized to release this information for a public review and comment
period of at least 45 days during the month of December after changes based on
input from municipal planners have been made.
TAC Action: Authorize Capital Area MPO staff
to release the new socioeconomic data forecasts for a public review and
comment period of at least 45 days during the month of December after any
changes based on input from municipal and county planners have been finalized.
THIS IS THE END OF
THE CONSENT AGENDA
7. US-1 Corridor Study
Between November 2005 and September 2006, a
project to study the US-1 Corridor between Interstate Highway 540 in Wake
County and US Highway 1A in Franklin County was funded by the Capital Area
Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO), the City of Raleigh, Town of Wake
Forest, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), and the
Triangle Transit Authority (TTA). The
corridor studied was the area lying roughly within one thousand feet in either
direction of the centerline of the US-1 right of way between the highway’s
intersections with Interstate 540 in Wake County, and with US-1A in Franklin
County.]
Development along the Corridor, and the
resulting vehicular activity, has stressed the roadway’s traffic-carrying capability. Four key factors were identified: 1)
considerable physical improvement will be required to address corridor issues;
2) current and foreseeable future land uses along the Corridor need to be
evaluated before making any capital investment in improving the roadway itself,
3) the need to preserve future right-of-way and ensure connections to existing
and new developments must be addressed, and 4) transportation planning must
seek to include balanced, multi-modal improvements.
The Capital Area MPO, the City of Raleigh,
the Town of Wake Forest, NCDOT and TTA hired the consulting firm of RS&H in
November 2005 to perform this study.
Public Information Workshops were held in
the study area on March 14, 2006 and July 27, 2006. The consultant’s work was guided by a
steering committee comprised of representatives of all parties to the agreement
along with representatives of economic development, the Wake County Public
School System, private sector and neighboring planning
organizations affected by the capacity of US-1, NCDOT, and the four transit
organizations that have or can provide service to the area.
Ms. Jan Anderson of RS&H, Project
Manager for the US-1 Corridor Study, will present an overview of the Study to
the TAC. Attachment 7A is a document containing the options
considered during the study.
Once this
corridor study’s findings and recommendations have been endorsed by the TAC and
the study’s funding partners, it is important that the corridor study be kept
up to date by having close coordination with future development activity so
that developments help to reinforce and implement the plan or the plan is
amended to remain viable and in harmony with development actions.
In order to do
this, the US-1 Corridor Oversight Committee has borrowed an innovative strategy
being used on the NC 73 corridor near Charlotte. This strategy involves all of the strategic
partners in the corridor, particularly those in charge of approving land use
development actions, to jointly adopt a Memorandum
of Understanding (MOU) for the Coordination of Land Use and Transportation
Planning along the US-1 Corridor in Wake and Franklin Counties.
Attachment 7B is the draft
version of the MOU, developed and recommended by the Oversight Committee for
this purpose. If the TAC endorses the
concept of this corridor planning coordination strategy in principle as recommended
by the TCC, the next step will be for the each of the parties recommended to
execute this MOU to review and jointly develop a mutually acceptable MOU
document for the corridor to work in harmony with each current local
government’s existing zoning/land use regulations and guidelines.
If the MOU is enacted by the proposed
parties as recommended, Attachment 7C is a draft set of
by-laws for the MOU’s ”Council of Planning”, which
would be the advisory body that would have the primary responsibility for
coordinating transportation and land use planning in the corridor in the
future.
TAC Action: Receive information on US-1Corridor Study, the proposed Memorandum
of Understanding (MOU) for the
Coordination of Land Use and Transportation Planning along the US-1 Corridor in
Wake and Franklin Counties, and the proposed Council of Planning By-Laws, for
further review. Endorse concept of MOU
for creating a US-1 Corridor Council of Planning as the preferred strategy for
coordinating planning and implementation on the IS 1 Corridor.
8. Metropolitan Transportation Improvement
Plan, Priority Project Lists
The NC Board of Transportation released the 2007-2013 State
Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) at their August 2006 meeting. Adoption of the final document is expected in
February or March of 2007. Public comment meetings to receive comment on the
2007-2013 STIP have been scheduled throughout the state during November and
December of 2006. Meetings for Capital
Area MPO Districts are as follows:
Division 4 November 30 - City Hall – Rocky Mount
Division 5 December 01 - City Hall – Roxboro
Division 6 December 13 - Bladen
Community College – Dublin
Attachment 8A is a complete list of the NCDOT Public Comment meetings.
At this same venue (public meeting venue) NCDOT is accepting input into
development of the 2009-2015 State TIP.
The Capital Area MPO staff and member governments will be working to
review the existing 2007-2013 Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Plan
(MTIP) and prepare the Priority Project List for the MTIP and input to the
2009-2015 STIP over the next six months.
Attachment 8B provides information on the process used for MTIP Priority Project
ranking. This process will be used to
evaluate projects for the 2009-2015 MTIP.
TAC Action: Receive information on 2007-2013 STIP and
2009-2013 STIP public comment meetings and 2009-2015 MTIP Priority Project List
development process for discussion and action as appropriate.
9. Request for Change to 2006-2012
Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Plan (MTIP) Priority Project List
The Town of Morrisville has requested that the TAC amend the FY
2006-2012 MTIP Priority Project List for two projects submitted by the
Town.
Attachment
9A is a copy of the Project Priority List from the
approved 2007-2013 MTIP. Attachment
9B is a copy of the cover letter outlining the requested change
and suggesting possible funding information, as well as two resolutions passed
by the Town of Morrisville related to this effort.
TAC Action: Receive information on Project
Priority List change requested by Town of Morrisville for discussion and action
as appropriate.
10. Agenda Items for Joint TAC meeting - November 29, 2006 . A joint meeting of the TACs
of the Capital Area MPO and the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro MPO will be held at
9:00 am on Wednesday, November 29, 2006. The meeting will be held at NC.
Biomedical Research Center located at 15 T.W. Alexander Dr, in the Research
Triangle Park. Attachment 10A is
a map and directions to the location.
This meeting will focus on transit issues and it is extremely important
that all members be present or an alternate be in attendance. A draft agenda
will be forthcoming and additional information will be provided at the November
15, 2006 TAC meeting.
TCC
Action: Receive information on Joint TAC meeting and
potential agenda items for discussion.
11. Reports
from the TCC Chair
Chip Russell, TCC Chair
12. MPO Staff Reports
Ed Johnson, MPO Director
13. NCDOT Reports
Scott Walston / Sarah Smith –
Transportation Planning Branch
Richard Greene - Division 4
Jon Nance /
Wally Bowman - Division 5
Terry Gibson
- Division 6
14. Other Business and Pending Items
Adjourn
INFORMATIONAL ITEMS
PENDING ITEMS
Item #01 – Comprehensive Transportation Plan
(for Transit) – (Fall/Winter 2006)
Item #02 – Capital Area MPO
Organization Structure - (Fall/Winter 2006)
Item #03 – Memorandum of
Agreement with NC Turnpike Authority (Winter 2006)
UPCOMING MEETINGS
November 29. 2006 - Joint MPOs
TAC Meeting –
Location in/near RTP to be announced
December 7, 2006 - Capital Area MPO TCC Subcommittee
Meetings (MTIP/ UPWP)
301
Hillsborough Building – 10:00 – Noon
December 20, 2006 - Capital Area MPO TAC Meeting (may be
cancelled)
January 4, 2007 -
Capital Area MPO TCC Meeting
301
Hillsborough Building – 10:00 - Noon
