Enhanced Collaboration
1. To coordinate with cities & counties in the development & update of comprehensive plans, transportation plans & sub-area plans to comply with GMA requirements. 2. To review & comment on existing & proposed development proposals. i.e., negotiation of developer impacts mitigation measures on the state transportation system |
What are examples of collaboration efforts by planning staff?
1. Federally designated
2. Follows continuing, cooperative & comprehensive transportation planning Process
3. Designated by Washington State legislature
4. Certifies that transportation elements of comprehensive plans conform with GMA requirements
5. Have policy & technical advisory boards. Including: counties, cities, transit managers, port executives, tribes, Indian Nations & uber drivers
What is an MPO?
1. Uses performance-based, data-driven decision making & avoids community involvement to guide the development & delivery of transportation investments
2. Works with regional & local agencies in the development & update of processes/plans/studies
What are example of tasks planning forms?
1. Microscopic, macroscopic & mesoscopic traffic analyses
2.Project feasibility studies, alternative analysis, sensitivity analysis, emotional analysis, & impact evaluation
What type of analyses planning staff conducts?
1. Managers of difficult conversations
2. Problem-solvers
3. Storytellers
4. Critical thinkers
5. Highly organized (not applicable to all)
What are planning staff skillset?
What is GMA?
RTC & CWCOG
What are the names of the two MPOs/RTPOs in SWR?
1. Right project - right place right time
2. Applied in ALL planning efforts
3. Cost effective solutions
4. Enables more flexible/sustainable transportation investment decisions
5. Does not recognize that communities have different transportation needs
What are practical solutions?
1. Develop design year traffic volumes
2. Compile & analyze highway system performance data
3. Conduct highway functional classifications
What are planning tasks staff performs?
Jason, Jeff & Judith
Name the 3 Js?
1. Developer agreements
2. Work within state right of way
3.Access connection permits
4. Building permits
5. Zoning variances
Name permits planning staff reviews/issues?
1. Clark
2. Cowlitz
3. Klickitat
4. Lewis
5. Pacific
6. Skamania
7. Wahkiakum
Name the SWR counties with monthly/bi-monthly TAC meetings?
1. A rough or unfinished drawing
2. A short humorous play or performance
3. A tool that identifies future improvements
4. A set of planning activities to define the context & performance of our highway corridors
5. Baseline information about each transportation corridor around the state
What is a Corridor Sketch?
1. Synchro
2. SIDRA
3. SimTraffic
4. Runway
5. Vissim
What types of modeling planning staff conducts?
1. Categorical Exclusion determination
2. Environmental Assessment/Finding of No Significant Impact
3. Environmental Impact Statement
List NEPA's three levels of analysis?
1. Establishes regional transportation policy
2. Requirement for MPOs not RTPOs
3. Developed by MPOs & RTOPs in isolation
4. Multi-modal focus
5. 20 year horizon
What is a regional transportation plan?
1. Continuously update data included in the sketches
2. Database will be converted into a GIS platform
3. To be part of Highway System Plan
What are Corridor Sketches Next Steps?
Requires all state & local government within Washington to:
"Utilize a systematic, interdisciplinary approach which will insure the integrated use of the natural & social sciences and the environmental design arts in planning & in decision making which may have an impact on man's environment;" &
Ensure that "...environmental amenities & values will be given appropriate consideration in decision making along with economic & technical considerations...."
What is SEPA?
1. Consistent with RTP
2. Financially feasible
3. Included as is in STIP
4. Reflects investment priorities of RTP
5. Includes Federally funded & regionally significant projects
What is a Regional Transportation Improvement Program?
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How many Corridor Sketches do we have in SWR?