Meeting Summary by Matt Liberati
Summary
Congestion Management Process Approved
May TIP Amendment Approved
"The May 2023 amendment to the fiscal year 2023 to 2026 TIP includes eight revision requests. This includes one revision from CDOT region 4, which is adding $137,857,000 of TIFIA loan in fiscal year 2024 to the I-25 segment 5 project" - AnnaRose Cunningham, Transport Planner II
2050 RTP Goals, Objectives, Performance Measures, and Targets (GOPMT) Approved with safety goal added
Meeting Notes
Air Pollution Control Division Presentation
Focused on ozone season and ozone planning
Updated daily ozone emails for clarity
Reduce Ozone Planning
Oil and gas drilling and pre production operations
Diesel engines and natural gas engines under 1000 horsepower
Regulations proposed in the fall
Colorado Clean cars program encourage low and zero emitting cars July rulemaking request
Exploring fees with the emission of greenhouse gases
Exploring rulemaking on reducing emission of greenhouse gases from industrial and manufacturing sector
Passed enhanced permitting requirements with disproportionately impacted communities
Suggestion that 3 members need to voice agreement before staff takes research action
Discussion about Transportation Planning Regions (TPR) changes
Each TPR will have one transit representative
There will remain 10 rural TPR
Work with TPR to update bylaws
5 public discussion meetings this summer about Boundary changes
Report to the transportation commission on Boundary recommendations by Nov 30th 2023
Transportation commission consider Boundary recommendations by June 2024
Sector Specific Plan (SSP) Grant Discussion
Not going after SSP grants from a regional level
Some local areas are pursuing grants requires action plan completion
Fort Collins has an action plan in place already
Weld County is going after it
Loveland and Windsor are possibly pursuing it
Shift Your Ride
Document alternate transportation beside single occupancy vehicle and be entered to win a prize
Open June 1 to August 31
RAQC (Regional Air Quality Council)
Creates State Implementation Plans for 8 hour ozone nonattainment area Northern Colorado and Denver Metropolitan areas for eventual approval by EPA
Hires consultants for ozone modeling and education programs
Budget for Northern Subarea (North of Boulder County direct line across into Weld) and Southern Subarea
State Demographer Presentation Elizabeth Garner State Demographer
State Growth slowing 26,000 per year last 2 years vs 75,000 average last decade
Highest growth 65+, Low growth working population, very low growth under 18
Weld County still growing fastest due to affordability bedroom community for jobs in other counties lots of transportation activities
Larimer County slower growth and 50% is 65+ in the next decade
Jobs are counted by place of employment so working from home job is at headquarters not home
Colorado Sixth Highest Median Home Price, Fourth Highest Median Rent, Tenth Highest Median Income
50% of Larimer County growth in the next decade is 65+
North Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organization Models for 2050
Land Use: Forecast location of population and jobs
CDOT uses this model for state projections
Travel Model: Forecast travel patterns
Validated by looking at actual traffic counts in a 5 year period
Coordinate with CDOT to track trips that leave the study area of Weld and Larimer counties
Resolution 2023-10 Congestion Management Process
Reduced crash count from all of Larimer/Weld to areas in the region
Made Updates from June meetings
Passed Unanimously
Resolution 2023-11 May 2023 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Amendment
Revising CDOT Region 4’s project I-25 Segment 5 (CO56 to CO66) by adding $137,857K TIFIA Loan funding in FY24.
Revising Greeley’s 10th Street Access Control Implementation project by removing $2,429K STBG/Local and increasing LOM by $2,429K.
Revising Greeley’s 83rd Avenue Roadway Improvements project by adding $2,429K STBG/Local and decreasing LOM by $2,249K.
Revising the RAQC’s Regional Ozone Planning, Modeling, and Analysis project by adding $30K STBG/Local each year in FY24 and FY25.
Incorporating the Greeley Program of Projects (POP) including the following revisions in FY2023:
Adding $2,047K FTA 5307/Local funding to Greeley-GET Operating Assistance 50/50
Adding $646K FTA 5307/Local funding to Greeley-GET ADA Operations 80/20
Decreasing $23K FTA 5307/Local funding from Greeley-GET Preventative Maintenance 80/20
Adding new project Greeley-GET Capital Projects 80/20 with $2,507K ($2,006K FTA5307/$501K Local) each year in FYs 2023-2026.
Passed Unanimously
2050 RTP Goals, Objectives, Performance Measures, and Targets (GOPMT) Goal Addition
Added Goal: Safety
Objective: Reduce the number of roadway related fatalities and serious injuries within the region
Passed Unanimously
2023 Call for Projects
Presented Framework for Scoring Projects based on Safety Regional Health Mobility Multimodal and Operations Goals and a small pool of Discretionary points for local priorities not reliant on data
Planning Council Schedule
July 6 Discussion on Draft Guidebook
August 3 Approval of Call Process
Tier 1 10 Year Plan Priorities List ~55 Million Available
US 34
I-25/SH14 Interchange Reconfiguration Phase 1
I-25/US34 Interchange
Discussion about adding more multimodal listings alongside road projects
Discussion about why a transit townhall isn’t scheduled for Northern Colorado
2050 Regional Transportation Plan Fiscally Constrained Plan
Outlines Transportation Projects from 2024-2050
17 billion in costs and 13 billion in funding = funding gap of 4 Billion
254 million in funding is unallocated question to council where to put it?
Council discussion generally supported allocating that money to capacity projects
Greenhouse Gas Transportation Report
4 Strategies to reduce greenhouse gases
Transit (More regional transportation service and t)
Transportation Demand Management (Regional programs)
Operations (Arterial signal timing improvements)
Active Transportation (More bikes & more local bike and ped networks)
Board vote to approve in July
Transportation Commission Report
Additional 25 million in road repair across the state
8 million for I-25 north of Fort Collins
Motorcycle safety month
CDOT Region 4 Update
Larimer County Meeting June 29th
Weld County Meeting June 22nd
Concrete Panel Replacement Project Advertisement 14 to Owl Canyon
Restructure 257 North of Windsor
Restructure 34 to Walnut Street South Windsor
Colorado Transportation Investment Office
6.62 Million to spend
Looking at Bus Rapid Transit and Pedestrian Infrastructure
Front Range Passenger Rail District
Community Outreach
Service Development Plan
Host Council Member Report Greeley
Greeley has grown a lot and much of the growth is people of color
County Road 17 Project
Transit from Greeley to Loveland and to Fort Collins
Summary
Congestion Management Process Approved
May TIP Amendment Approved
2050 RTP Goals, Objectives, Performance Measures, and Targets (GOPMT) Approved with safety goal added
Observer Follow-Up Questions
How will Weld County address growth and Larimer County address slower growth and more 65+ growth and how will these 2 different dynamics impact board actions moving forward?
How will the 2050 proposed transportation project funding gap of 4 billion be addressed?
How will council prioritize road projects and multi-modal projects?
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