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Agenda Item 6.


TRANSPORTATION AGENCY FOR MONTEREY COUNTY *Memorandum*

To:	Technical Advisory Committee
From:	Tracy Burke, Go831 Rideshare Coordinator / Associate Transportation Planner
Meeting Date:	November 3, 2016
Subject:	Active Transportation Plan Nov TAC

RECOMMENDED ACTION:
RECEIVE update on outreach efforts for the Active Transportation Plan.

SUMMARY:
Outreach for the Active Transportation Plan, an update of the 2011 Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan, continues. Staff has been presenting to interested stakeholders, and has been collecting input via the online Wikimapping tool that is posted to the Transportation Agency website.

FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The Transportation Agency budgeted $60,999, to be paid for out of TAMC reserve funding, to continue in-house preparation of the Active Transportation Plan update in the 2016/2017 fiscal year budget. The Plan will position high priority projects to be more competitive for grant funding, such as the State’s Active Transportation Program that had $240 million available in Cycle 3.

DISCUSSION:

In addition to creating an Active Transportation Plan that will meet the State's guidelines, and identifying high priority bicycle and pedestrian projects, this effort will also focus on analyzing key gaps in the existing and proposed bicycle and pedestrian networks, identifying opportunity sites for innovative bicycle facility design, and designating areas for enhanced regional and local connectivity.

Since the beginning of the year, TAMC staff has worked with the Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities Advisory Committee and the Technical Advisory Committee to develop the Plan vision and goals, establish project ranking criteria and identify bicycle and pedestrian projects to be included in the Plan.

The Plan is currently in the public outreach phase, and TAMC staff has met with interested stakeholders and has made a presentation to the Board of Directors. Staff has also been using an online, interactive public input mapping tool to collect comments on active transportation improvements that are needed. To date, the map has received 381 comments from approximately 170 community members throughout Monterey County. Staff will review the map and the comments received at the meeting. The public comment period will close on Friday, December 16.

Following this phase to identify new projects, the next phase of the Active Transportation Plan is to hire a consultant to develop conceptual plans and cost estimates for the highest priority regional projects in order to improve their competitiveness for State and Federal funding.

WEB ATTACHMENTS:
Active Transportation Plan Wikimap Public Input Tool