HomeMy WebLinkAbout4.20.22 OUTBoard Packet AGENDA
ORANGE UNIFIED TRANSPORTATION BOARD
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
OUTBoard Meeting — 6:30 pm
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No. Page(s) Agenda Item
1. Call to Order
2. 3 -4 Approval of Minutes
November 17, 2021 OUTBoard Meeting
3. Election of Chair and Vice Chair
4. Consideration of Additions or Changes to Agenda
5. Regular OUTBoard Agenda
6. Staff Report/Updates
Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro 2050 Metropolitan Transportation Plan and Air
6.a. 5 — 14 Quality Conformity Determination Report (Nish Trivedi)
Action: Receive the Update.
Burlington-Graham Metropolitan Planning Organization Safety Plan and Program
6.b. 15 — 42 (Nish Trivedi)
Action: Receive the Update.
Orange County US-70 Multimodal Corridor Study (Nish Trivedi)
6.c. 43 — 46 Action: Receive the Update.
MPO/RPO and NCDOT (Nish Trivedi)
6.d. 47 — 49
Action: Receive the Update.
7. Information Items
The next OUTBoard meeting date is To Be Determined
Charge of the OUTBoard (Excerpt from Section I, Part C of the adopted Rules and Procedures)
1. The OUT Board is charged with advising the Board of County Commissioners on the planning and programming of
transportation infrastructure improvements and other County transportation planning initiatives, as directed by the Board.
Meetings (Excerpt from Section IV, Part C of the adopted Rules and Procedures)
C. Date, Time, and Location of Regular Meetings
1. Regular meetings of the OUT Board shall be held as needed to address items that require Board action consistent with its
Charge and Duties identified herein.
Public Comments / Participation Instructions
There are two methods for public comment:
• Written submittals by email or drop-off
• Speaking during the virtual meeting
Written Public Comments
Members of the public are encouraged to provide written public comments by emailing comments to
tteneyck _orangecountync.gov no later than 3:00 p.m. on the afternoon of the meeting. Please include in
the Subject line of the email the title of the agenda item your comment.
Written comments can also be dropped off at the Planning Department's offices at 131 W. Margaret
Lane, 2nd floor, Hillsborough, NC during normal business hours (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through
Friday). Please leave your comments in the drop-off box near the front counter. Written comments will
be scanned emailed to the OUTBoard members and staff.
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1 MINUTES
2 ORANGE COUNTY OUTBOARD
3 FEBRUARY 16,2022
4 REGULAR MEETING
5 (Due to current public health concerns, this meeting was held virtually.
6 Members of the OUTBoard, staff and public participated remotely)
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8 MEMBERS PRESENT: : Eric Broo (Chair), At-Large Representative; Amy Cole (Vice-Chair), At-Large Representative; David
9 Laudicina, Cheeks Township Representative; Randy Marshall, Bingham Township Representative; Tony Blake, At-Large
10 Representative; Jamie Crandell, Eno Township Representative; Joshua Mayo, At-Large Representative; Michael Hughes, At-
II Large Representative;Todd Jones,At-Large Representative;
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13 MEMBERS ABSENT: Tom Gray, Hillsborough Township Representative; Heather McAndrew, At-Large Representative; Roy
14 Schonberg, Chapel Hill Township Representative;
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16 STAFF PRESENT: Nish Trivedi, Transportation Planner; Tom Ten Eyck, Transportation/Land Use Planner; Tina Love,
17 Administrative Support
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19 OTHERS PRESENT: Matt Day,Triangle J Council of Governments (TJCOG)
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21 AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER AND DETERMINATION OF QUORUM
22 Erik Broo called the meeting to order and quorum was established
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24 AGENDA ITEM 2: APPROVAL OF MINUTES
25 MOTION by Tony Blake to approve the November 17,2021 OUTBoard Minutes. Seconded by Michael Hughes.
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27 Randy Marshall: Yes
28 Amy Cole: Yes
29 Dave Laudicina Yes
30 Joshua Mayo: Yes
31 Todd Jones Yes
32 Tony Blake Yes
33 Jamie Crandell: Yes
34 Michael Hughes Yes
35 Erik Broo: Yes
36 VOTE: UNANIMOUS
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38 AGENDA ITEM 3: ELECTION OF CHAIR AND VICE-CHAIR
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40 Randy Marshall nominated Erik Broo to continue as OUTBoard Chair and Michael Hughes volunteered to serve as OUTBoard
41 Vice-Chair.
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43 MOTION by Randy Marshall for Erik Broo to be elected Chair. Seconded by Todd Jones
44 MOTION by Michael Hughes to be elected Chair. Seconded by Erik Broo
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46 Erik Broo: Michael Hughes
47 Amy Cole: Erik Broo
48 Randy Marshall Erik Broo
49 Dave Laudicina: Michael Hughes
50 Tony Blake: Michael Hughes
51 Joshua Mayo: Erik Broo
52 Todd Jones: Erik Broo
53 Jamie Crandell: Erik Broo
54 Michael Hughes Erik Broo
55 VOTE: ERIK BR00 CHAIR(6-3)
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57 MOTION by Amy Cole to nominate Michael Hughes for Vice-Chair.
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59 There were no other nominations and the OUTBoard decided by consensus that Michael Hughes would be the Vice-Chair.
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61 AGENDA ITEM 4: CONSIDERATION OF ADDITIONS TO AGENDA
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63 AGENDA ITEM 5: REGULAR OUTBOARD AGENDA
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65 AGENDA ITEM 6: STAFF REPORTS/UPDATES
66 AGENDA ITEM 6A: DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL- CARRBORO (DCHD) 2050 METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION (MPO)
67 TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND AIR QUALITY CONFORMITY DETERMINATION REPORT(NISH TRIVEDI)
68 Nish Trivedi provided a PowerPoint Presentation on the DCHC MPO 2050 Transportation Plan and Air Quality Conformity
69 Determination Report.
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71 Dave Laudicina discussed the BRTs and funding. He referred to residents voting on 2 sales tax and the most was to go to the
72 light rail plan and doesn't understand why another'/cent sales tax is need to fund these projects if the BRTs can be submitted
73 as Small Start Programs and get 67% of their budget and thinks there should be plenty of money to cover Orange County's
74 share.
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76 Tony Blake questioned how much money is going to GoTriangle every year and how much of that money is actually being spent
77 back in Orange County. He doesn't think that Orange County is getting their money's worth from the'/cent sales tax.
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79 Nish Trivedi gave additional information and asked the members to put their comment in writing and email them to him.
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81 Joshua Mayo shared a link with the members:
82 HTTPS://GOTRIANGLE.ORG/SITES/DEFAULT/FILES/2021 ORANGE COUNTY PROGRESS REPORT.PDF
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84 Tina Love shared a link with members:
85 HTTPS://OCTRANSIT202O.COM/ASK-A-QUESTION/
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87 Erik Broo asked the members voicing concerns to send him and email with their concerns, questions and suggestions and he
88 will put together an email to the BOCC.
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90 AGENDA ITEM 613: BURLINGTON-GRAHAM METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION (BGMPO) SAFETY PLAN AND PROGRAM
91 (NISH TRIVEDI)
92 Nish Trivedi provided a PowerPoint Presentation he BGMPO Safety Plan with the OUTBoard members
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94 AGENDA ITEM 6C: ORANGE COUNTY US-70 MULTIMODAL CORRIDOR STUDY(NISH TRIVEDI)
95 Nish Trivedi update the OUTBoard on the US-70 Multimodal Corridor Study
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97 The OUTBoard expressed concerns regarding bicycles,overweigh trucks,and sharing data with volunteer fire departments.
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99 AGENDA ITEM 61): MPO/RPO AND NCDOT UPDATES(NISH TRIVEDI)
100 Nish Trivedi shared the updates in the agenda packet
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102 AGENDA ITEM 7: INFORMATION ITEMS
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104 AGENDA ITEM 8:ADJOURNMENT
105 OUTBoard meeting was adjourned by consensus
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109 Erik Broo, Chair
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ORANGE COUNTY
ORANGE UNIFIED TRANSPORTATION BOARD
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: April 20, 2022
Action Agenda
Item No. 4.a.
SUBJECT: Transit Plan Update
DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections
ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tom Ten Eyck, Transportation/Land Use
Planner, 919-245-2567
Tom Altieri, Comprehensive Planning
Supervisor, 919-245-2579
PURPOSE: To receive a presentation of the Orange County Transit Plan (OCTP) Update
planning framework, process and draft recommendations for new bus operations and capital
projects.
BACKGROUND: In 2012, the Orange County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) along
with the Durham-Chapel Hill Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (DCHC MPO) and
GoTriangle adopted Orange County's first comprehensive Transit Plan. This Plan was funded
using a newly-adopted Article 43 Half-Cent Sales Tax, and it included investments in new and
expanded bus service and new capital infrastructure projects such as the Chapel Hill North- South
Bus Rapid Transit Project, the Hillsborough Train Station, and the Durham-Orange Light Rail
Transit (DO-LRT) Project. The Plan was most recently updated in 2017 to meet federal
requirements associated with the DO-LRT Project.
In March 2019, the DO-LRT Project was discontinued. This project was central to the Transit Plan;
it was the Plan's primary investment, represented a critical partnership between Durham and
Orange counties, and served as the transit infrastructure around which other transit services and
growth strategies were planned. In response to the discontinuation of the light rail project, a staff
team began the process of creating a potential planning framework to create a new Orange
County Transit Plan that prioritizes investments, funds service improvements, and improves the
resiliency of the public transit network.
At its November 17, 2019 meeting, the Orange County BOCC approved the planning framework
for updating the Orange County Transit Plan. The framework included a Policy Steering
Committee (PSC) composed of two (2) Commissioners serving as Co-Chairs, and one
representative each from Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough, and Mebane to lead the process.
The County and/ or municipal appointees are intended to represent the interests of GoTriangle
and DCHC MPO.
The PSC is supported by a staff team which is led by County staff and includes representatives
from the same organizations as well as staff support from the Triangle J Council of Governments
(TJCOG), the Triangle Area Rural Planning Organization (TARPO), and the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Both the PSC and the staff team provide direction and guidance
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to the consulting firm whose tasks include analyzing data, facilitating public input processes,
soliciting feedback from specific stakeholders, and drafting the Transit Plan. The new Plan is
intended to outline transit investment priorities through 2040.
In January 2020, Orange County Planning staff began work with Renaissance Planning, Inc., the
consulting firm chosen to update the Orange County Transit Plan. Over the past two years,
planning staff and the consulting team have established key project deliverables and the timetable
for their delivery, defined the scope of the consulting work, established a project website
(www.octransit2020.com), created the public participation and outreach plans, and conducted
regular meetings with the PSC, transit service providers, and key stakeholders with updates on
the plan's progress.
Following is a list of key process milestones carried out by the Consultant, PSC, transit service
providers and staff teams:
• Held bi-monthly meetings with progress updates for the PSC during the 2020 calendar year
(May 2020)
• Received the Transit Choices Brochure (TCB), a visual document that illustrates the
concepts and continuums of transit planning, and the Regional Connections Opportunity
(RCO) Report, a technical assessment of key issues and opportunities for effective transit
service (July 2020)
• Held the first Transit Summit over the Zoom platform and received a memo of key themes
from the summit discussions and first public survey (October 2020)
• Met with Durham City and County representatives to discuss progress of Durham Transit
Plan Update relative to the Orange County Transit Plan Update (November 2020)
• Received draft versions of conceptual scenarios and graphics with an accompanying
memo (January 2021)
• Held recurring monthly PSC meetings over Zoom with updates for first half of 2021
(January 2021 — June 2021)
• Received final versions of conceptual scenarios and graphics with an accompanying memo
(May 2021)
• Held an in-person Transit Summit for PSC members to discuss core values and visions for
the fiscally-constrained plan and learned of aspirational future projects (July 2021)
• Received draft recommended network and plan as well as draft conceptual vision map for
transit service provider feedback and scheduling of future PSC meetings (October 2021)
• Held PSC Work Session #1 to look at the final recommended network and conceptual
vision map with purpose of permitting project management team to begin round 2 of public
outreach (January 2022)
• Created public outreach opportunities with a second round of surveying (where over 1,000
surveys were collected) and two focus groups (held on February 81h and February 16th)that
included local stakeholders (February 2022)
• Held PSC Work Session #2 to look at the feedback received from public outreach and
assess the draft network, which resulted in a request to provide check-in presentations to
the local elected boards (March 2022)
Key takeaways from the public outreach include the overall approval of projects as they were
outlined and an agreement of the need for more regional projects in the future. After discussing
the need to wait for the Transit Plan Governance Study to conclude prior to the Transit Plan
Update's adoption, the PSC advised the project management team to begin scheduling check-in
meetings with the municipalities in the local government as well as the BOCC.
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Remaining Consultant Deliverables — Next Steps
The remaining work and next steps include:
• Additional check-in meetings with Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and Hillsborough. (As a courtesy,
a check-in has been offered as well to the GoTriangle Board of Trustees in April.);
• Final PSC Work Session; and
• Delivery of a final report to the Orange County staff team.
Adoption Process
The 2017 Orange County Transit Plan was adopted by the Orange County BOCC on April 27,
2017 before it was adopted by DCHC MPO and the GoTriangle Board of Trustees on April 28,
2017. The final Plan will be brought to the Orange County BOCC after the summer meeting break;
Orange County staff will bring the 2022 Transit Plan Update through the adoption process
following the critical path outlined below:
Orange County:
• Oran-ge Unified Transportation Board recommendation
• BOCC Public Hearing
• BOCC adoption consideration
DCHC MPO:
• Technical Committee recommendation
• Board adoption consideration
GoTriangle:
• Board adoption consideration
RECOMMENDATION(S): Staff recommends that the OUTBoard receive the presentation.