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TC 11-22-21 Meeting MinutesTRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE REPORT to the BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Monday, November 22, 2021 8:30 a.m. 107 NORTH KENT STREET, WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA ATTENDEES: Committee Members Present: Judith McCann-Slaughter, Chairman (Voting), Gary Oates (Voting), James Racey (Voting), Charles DeHaven, Jr. (Voting), Shawn Graber (Voting) and Lewis Boyer (Liaison Stephens City). Committee Members Absent: Cordell Watt (Voting) Staff Present: Assistant Director-Transportation John Bishop, and Kathy Smith, Secretary. ITEMS FOR INFORMATION ONLY: 1-Funding Goal Setting and Prioritization: Staff provided an overview of the Transportation funding mechanisms that had been discussed at the previous meeting with setting a goal for the upcoming budget consideration. Staff presented an outline table with various tools for generating Revenue for the Committee to consider. The goal is to fully utilize available opportunities which included SmartScale, Transportation Alternatives, Revenue Sharing and Transportation Partnership Opportunity Fund. The recommended target is $1.7M for FY 22 -23 and FY23-24 and $6.7M for FY 24-25 assuming full utilization and success of Revenue Sharing. Also, Staff outlined a project pipeline for projects that have been identified also in the past and current County planning efforts. Tier 1 of the project categorization is category A projects are actively in the application process or have recently been denied but the County wishes to continue to refine and pursue, Category B is projects under preparation that may not be ready for submission or if more there are more applications ready projects in Category A that score higher in prioritization process than there are application opportunities, and Category C is for projects that are County priorities that are not ready for an application to various programs which the County takes advantage of. Staff gave preliminary examples of each. Committee discussed the goals with the history of the past on some of the projects in Categories and direction of the recommendation that Staff had outlined was favored by the Committee to allocate funds for future growth. 2-Opening Discussion: Route 37 Phasing: Staff discussed the Route 37 Phasing alternatives and prioritizations will take some time. As an opening the discussion Staff covered the different types of facilities in Virginia and how much traffic they carry. The busiest segment is Route 50 and Route 522 that had 35,000 Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) and 39,000 Average Annual Weekday Traffic (AAWDT). The study was based on 2019 data. The discussion has come up to Staff about Route 37 becoming a Parkway mostly from developments. Staff gave some statistics from other Parkways in our area with Loudoun County having 40,000 AADT and 42,000 AAWDT, Fairfax County Parkway having 71,000 AADT and 76, 000 AAWDT, and Prince William County Parkway 53,000 AADT and 56,000 AAWDT. 3-Transportation Forum Summary: Staff provide a summary of attendance and community feedback received from the forum. The Forum was well attended and a great opportunity to meet with decision makers. Some of the comments Staff received are on Route 37 status, Stephens City Area traffic, Bicycle, Pedestrian planning, Public Transportation, Route 7 westbound delay and Redbud Run to I-81. 4- County Project Updates: Crossover Boulevard aka Tevis Street Extension/Airport Road/I-81 Bridge: The final bills are coming in and historic signs are to be installed by Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Foundation by the end of December. Renaissance Drive: Unchanged status. Easement and right-of-way paperwork has been submitted to CSX for consideration and staff is in discussions with property owners for right-of- way. 5-Other: The Committee discussed the potential impacts of recent election on State Transportation structure. The Legislative issues with the infrastructure bills was discussed by Staff to include a $7 billion for federal aid highway programs, $537 million for Bridge replacement and repairs, network of chargers for electric vehicles, $100 million for broadband and $700 million for updating waterlines