HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES-2006-087 Comments to the NC DOT Draft 2007-1013 State Transportation Improvement Program
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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
A RESOLUTION PROVIDING COMMENTS TO THE
NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
REGARDING THE
DRAFT 2007 - 2013 STATE TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
DIVISION 7 PROJECTS IN ORANGE COUNTY
WHEREAS, Orange County welcomes the opportunity to participate in development of
the 2007-2013 North Carolina Transportation Improvement Program, and
WHEREAS, Orange County gives priority to identified safety needs in the vicinity of
schools, on existing roads and bridges, to other transportation projects that encourage
alternatives to automobile travel, to projects that minimize adverse impacts on the natural
environment and cultural sites, and to those projects that foster economic development in the
designated Economic Development Districts; and
WHEREAS, Orange County has submitted a Priority List of transportation projects for
inclusion in the 2007 - 2013 State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP); and
WHEREAS, the North Carolina Department of Transportation has released the Draft
2007 - 2013 STIP for public comment; and
WHEREAS, Orange County, as a member of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro
(DCHC) Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) has submitted comments to the
Transportation Advisory Committee of the DCHC MPO regarding transportation projects
within the Metropolitan Area Boundary, which are attached to this resolution; and
WHEREAS, the North Carolina Board of Transportation is the sole approving authority
for the STIP for areas of the State outside Metropolitan Area Boundaries; and
WHEREAS, a large portion of Orange County lies outside the DCHC MPO MAB;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Orange County Board of
Commissioners that Orange County submits the following comments regarding transportation
projects in areas of the County outside the DCHC MPO MAB, as submitted in the attached
recommendation of the Orange County Unified Transportation Board, for consideration by the
North Carolina Department of Transportation in development of the 2007- 2013 State
Transportation Improvement Program:
1. Orange County acknowledges that cuts in appropriated federal transportation funds to
North Carolina coupled with the rapid increase in construction costs necessitate some
delays; however, the County is concerned that the Draft 2007-2013 TIP delays most
Orange County projects that are funded in the current 2006-2012 TIP.
Orange County Board of Commissioners
Resolution to the NCDOT
Providing Comments to the 2007-2013 STIP
2. Orange County requests that the NCDOT Division of Bicycle and Pedestrian
Transportation consider funding for paved shoulders along Dairyland Road (SR 1112-
SR 1113-SR1177) to accommodate bicycle traffic from Union Grove Church Road
(SR 1111) to Orange Grove Road (SR 1006). This area experiences high levels of
bicycle traffic from Carrboro and Chapel Hill to rural routes, and is part of a loop that,
along with Old NC 86, has been proposed as a North Carolina Scenic Corridor.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Orange County, while acknowledging that cuts in
appropriated federal transportation funds to North Carolina coupled with the rapid increase in
construction costs make it unlikely that the NCDOT can add new projects to the STIP in this
update, the County requests that the NCDOT consider all funding possibilities for priority
needs identified in the Orange County Priority List for the 2007-2013 Transportation
Improvement Program.
Upon motio of Commissioner ~ ,and seconded by Commissioner
,the foregoing resolution was adopted
this the / ~ - day of ~7, .2006.
I, Donna Baker, Clerk to the Board of Commissioners for the County of Orange, North
Carolina, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true copy of so much of the
proceedings of said Board at a meeting held on October 17, 2006„ as relates in any way to
the adoption of the foregoing and that said proceedings are recorded in the minutes of said
Board.
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said County, this ~ day of -, 2006.
Clerk to the Board of Commissioners
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