Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) WELCOME!

WELCOME TO THE WAKE BUS RAPID TRANSIT: WESTERN BOULEVARD CORRIDOR STUDY KICK-OFF MEETING! THE PURPOSE OF THIS MEETING IS TO INFORM THE PUBLIC ABOUT BRT AND GATHER FEEDBACK ON KEY DESTINATIONS SERVED BY BRT TO IDENTIFY PREFERRED ALIGNMENT OPTIONS.

A brief presentation will begin at 6:30PM. In the meantime, please feel free to spend as much time as you want at the stations.

Walk around to each information booth to learn more about the project and talk with staff. Refreshments are provided.

Fill out a comment form, add your comments to the project map or the map of the corridor, and to the community wall activity to give us your feedback. You can also fill out the survey online at planningforraleigh.com/BRTprojects.

A Spanish translation available by request / Traducción al Español está disponible a pedido. Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) WAKE TRANSIT PLAN

THE WAKE COUNTY TRANSIT PLAN INCLUDES FOUR “BIG MOVES” 1 2 3 4 CONNECT THE CONNECT ALL PROVIDE PROVIDE REGION WAKE COUNTY FREQUENT GREATER COMMUNITIES RELIABLE ACCESS TO URBAN TRANSIT TRANSIT More express bus New or improved service to Chapel Hill transit service to all 12 More 15-minute service Increased bus service and RDU, and new rail Wake County in urban areas, with across the country for service to Durham municipalities longer hours and rural residents weekend service

Implement Bus Fund Local Service Increase Bus Service Expand Rural Implement Commuter Rapid Transit (BRT) On-Demand Service Rail Transit (CRT) $

BRT creates dedicated The Plan also expands Expand existing Many Wake County CRT will use existing bus lanes on local transit in Wake County frequent bus services residents depend railroad tracks to roads so bus operators for municipalities that from 17 to 83 miles, on rural, on-demand provide comfortable can bypass traffic and currently do not have with service at least transit services to passenger service that keep their routes on service by allowing them every 15 minutes get to necessary allows riders to relax or schedule. to apply for matching destinations. work on their way to funds to develop and key destinations. operate local bus service. Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) WHAT IS BRT?

WHAT IS BRT? BENEFITS OF BRT U.S. CITIES WITH BRT

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is a flexible, high speed bus service that combines physical Improve Mobility: Connect people to jobs, education and operational elements to improve speed and reliability. BRT creates dedicated resources, and other opportunities bus lanes on local roads so bus operators can bypass traffic and keep their routes on schedule. The plan calls for building approximately 20 miles of BRT lanes. Along Transit-Oriented, Sustainable Development: Support these BRT corridors, buses will have priority treatment at traffic signals. BRT stops will walkable places that support both housing and feature raised platforms, making it easier for passengers with wheelchairs, strollers commercial destinations or bicycles to board the bus. Fares are collected on the platform so riders can board without delay. Reduce Emissions: Improve air quality by reducing the number of vehicles on the road Enhance Equity: Save money for households who drive less or opt out of car ownership altogether

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Enhanced Stations Frequent On-time Service Enhanced Fare Collection System BRT stations include raised platforms, BRT buses would operate at least Off-board fare collection using ticket ticket vending machines, real-time arrival every 15 minutes for more than 12 vending machines, card readers information, larger shelters, quality hours a day. and other tools at stations allows lighting, and other passenger amenities. passengers to load without waiting in MODERN STATION WITH SHELTERS AND LIGHTING STATION WITH SHELTERS AND AMENITIES IMPROVED STATION AREA STREETSCAPE line to pay their fares. MAX BRT, City, MO Orange Line, Los Angeles, CA Health Line, Cleveland, OH Source: GoForward Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) TRANSIT SUPPORTIVE PLANNING

BENEFITS OF TOD WHAT IS TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT (TOD)?

TOD is physical development oriented to transit. TOD is centered around quality public transportation and often includes a mix of housing, office, retail, and other uses to meet daily needs. TOD creates walkable neighborhoods around transit and provides a focus for a community. It allows for mobility choice to improve quality of life and spur economic development. TOD is designed specifically to its context and can take many forms, but is generally higher density than the surrounding uses to allow for a mix of uses within a short walk from transit.

Health Line Street Improvement, OH Pleasant Hill BART station area public space, CA TOD IS: CONNECTED & ACCESSIBLE FOCUSED & COMPACT MIXED-USE • Expands choices for getting around • Creates vibrant centers of activity • Connects between different transit modes • Creates places to live/work/play • Promotes walkability and an active lifestyle • Enhances the public spaces

TOD IS NOT:

ISOLATED SPARSE SEPARATED & HOMOGENEOUS

Bethesda Row, MA Mashpee Commons, MA

• Brings shops, jobs, and homes closer together to • Provides a space for growth without promote a community that is walkable impacting existing neighborhoods • Enhances the local tax base with compact, high • Promotes economic development and can value development increase adjacent property values DEVELOPMENT SCALES IN RALEIGH

18-STORY OFFICE, RESIDENTIAL, AND RETAIL FOUR-STORY RESIDENTIAL OVER RETAIL THREE-STORY SUBSIDIZED RENTAL HOUSING TWO-STORY TOWNHOUSES FOURPLEX APARTMENT The Dillon, Raleigh, NC 401 Oberlin apartment building, Raleigh, NC The Village at Washington Terrace, Raleigh, NC St. Mary’s Townhomes, W. Hargett Street, Raleigh, NC 122 Hillcrest, Raleigh, NC Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) TRANSIT SUPPORTIVE PLANNING

PLANNING AROUND TRANSIT IMPROVES SUSTAINABILITY LEVERAGE TRANSIT INVESTMENTS FOR MORE AND EQUITY SUSTAINABLE GROWTH

Economic Land Use Policy Affordable Housing Transit Corridor Focuses and Accommodates Transit Spurs Economic Growth Development Regional Growth

Transit-Oriented Public Amenities Development (TOD)

BENEFITS FOR RALEIGH

• Improving access to the region’s prosperity by connecting people to jobs, education, and other opportunities.

• Supporting mixed-use, walkable places, which are economically more productive Generated $9.5 billion in construction projects and environmentally more sustainable, reducing carbon emissions and other air Expect a 26% increase in residents and a pollutants. 36% growth in employment between 2010 and 2040 Created 13,000 new jobs along the corridor

• Saving money for households, enabling them to avoid car ownership or reduce the Rosslyn-Ballston Metrorail corridor, Arlington, VA Health Line, Cleveland, OH number of vehicles owned.

Transit Can be Coordinated with Affordable Transit Reduces Carbon Footprint and Transit Increases Access to Jobs Transit Reduces Travel Expenses Housing Promotes Health

2015-2016, Hartford showed over Save residents an average of over $9,500 A YEAR Created a TOD Fund in transportation costs $24 million 4,445,000 additional transit trips 6% INCREASE OF JOBS ACCESSIBLE There are 600 affordable units in the pipeline, with a goal to 30,000 metric tons reduction of carbon emissions of gasoline used for car trips create more than 1,000 new units near transit

Households living within ½-mile of rail transit spend about 10% LESS OF THEIR HOUSEHOLD BUDGETS Created 4,000 construction jobs on the combined cost of housing and transportation than the average

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4-4-2288 Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) HOW DID WE GET HERE?

2016 2017/2018 WAKE TRANSIT PLAN MAJOR INVESTMENT STUDY Wake County residents voted in favor of the Wake Transit Plan in November 2016. The Plan recommends 20 miles The Major Investment Study (MIS) gathered and analyzed information to identify a single of BRT infrastructure to be implemented along four (4) corridors in Wake County to provide frequent and reliable alignment alternative from Downtown Raleigh to Jones Franklin Road. West of Jones urban mobility. Franklin Road the MIS study identified three alignment alternatives for serving Cary.

2019 WESTERN BOULEVARD CORRIDOR STUDY This study will help identify a preferred BRT alternative alignment along the Western Boulevard Corridor. Comments from the MIS and recently proposed developments provided the opportunity to reanalyze the alignments from the MIS. This analysis will include an additional alignment alongWADE AVE Cary Towne Boulevard and Maynard Road to serve

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PROJECT PURPOSE WHAT TO EXPECT DURING EACH TASK?

Find the best way to integrate BRT along Western Boulevard to connect Downtown Raleigh, NC State University, and Downtown Cary. PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT • 4 Rounds of Public Meetings • Pop-up and other public events • 10 Stakeholder Meetings PROJECT GOALS

• Identify preferred BRT alternative alignment EXISTING CONDITIONS MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS • Understand the transit oriented development potential • Critical Issues • Transit Analysis • Refine BRT Alignment Alternatives • Pedestrian & Bicycle Inventory • Develop land use strategy • Multimodal Safety Analysis • Coordinate with other active projects LAND USE & URBAN FORM ANALYSIS PROJECT COORDINATION • Market Analysis • Coordination with other active • Land Use Capacity Analysis and planned projects along the • Transit Oriented Development corridor. Strategy PROJECT SCHEDULE 2019 2020 2021

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EXISTING CONDITIONS - PEDESTRIAN

CROSSING COMFORT CRITERIA EXISTING SIDEWALK CONDITIONS: • Traffic signals • Much of the corridor has sidewalks on both • Number of lanes sides of the street • Median and curb ramps • Sidewalks on multiple cross streets do not • Crosswalk style and condition continue across Western Boulevard Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) WAKE BRT: WESTERN BOULEVARD CORRIDOR STUDY

EXISTING CONDITIONS - BICYCLE AND TRANSIT

EXISTING MULTIUSE PATHS AND BUS AMENITY SCORES : BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE: • Shelter • Multiuse paths currently exist along • Bench much of Western Boulevard • Lighting • Infrastructure gaps exist mainly west • Sidewalk connection to neighborhood, of I-440 business, or community destinations Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) WAKE BRT: WESTERN BOULEVARD CORRIDOR STUDY

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WHERE DO YOU LIVE? USE THE DOTS TO LET US KNOW! WHERE DO YOU WORK? USE THE DOTS TO LET US KNOW!

KEY 1. Downtown Cary 2. East Cary Middle School 3. 4. Fenton Development 5. Maynard Rd at Chatham St 6. WakeMed Soccer Park WADE AVE 7. Farm Gate Rd / I-40

8. Corporate Center BLUE RIDGE RD RIDGE BLUE 9. Vie at Raleigh/Republic at

Raleigh EDWARDS MILL RD EDWARDSMILL 10. Plaza West Shopping Center 11. Old Kmart

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12. McKimmon Center STREET ACADEMY

13. NC State Centennial Campus CHAPEL HILL ROAD5 8 RD METHOD 14. NC State Main Campus E CHATHAM STREET HILLSBOROUGH ST 15. Dorothea Dix Park 1 6 9 11 16. Pullen Park WESTERN14 BLVD

KENT RD KENT PULLEN RD 17. Shaw University 10 12 WALNUT STREET2 4 CARY TOWNE BLVD 18. Downtown Raleigh 16 18 7 FARM GATE RD BUCK JONES RD Wake BRT: Western Boulevard ROAD MAYNARD Corridor Alignments GORMAN ST 3 AVENT FERRY RD 13 BOYLAN AVE Western Boulevard JONES FRANKLIN RD 17 Chapel Hill Road 15

SAUNDERS ST Chatham Street / Hillsborough Road Western Boulevard Extension / Cary Towne Boulevard

1. Downtown Cary 7. Farm Gate Rd / I-40 13. NC State Centennial Campus Wake BRT: Western Blvd Corridor Alignments 2. East Cary Middle School 8. Corporate Center 14. NC State Main Campus Western Blvd 3. Cary Towne Center 9. Vie at Raleigh/Republic at Raleigh 15. Dorothea Dix Park Chapel Hill Rd 4. Fenton Development 10. Plaza West Shopping Center 16. Pullen Park Chatham St / Hillsborough Rd 5. Maynard Rd at Chatham St 11. Old Kmart 17. Shaw University Cary Towne Blvd 6. WakeMed Soccer Park 12. McKimmon Center 18. Downtown Raleigh Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) WAKE BRT: WESTERN BOULEVARD CORRIDOR STUDY

SOCIOECONOMIC TRENDS Housing Units Without a Car, 2019

• Over 30,000 residents live within a ½ mile of the planned Western Boulevard BRT route. 15% 14% • Nearly 50% of corridor residents are younger than 34 years old, with a median age of 24 years old 13% compared to Raleigh’s median age of 34. • Median household income along the corridor is over $20,000 less than the citywide median of $66,000. • Car ownership is significantly less common in three of the submarkets along the corridor compared to the city overall, and a higher percentage of corridor residents commute via bus. 8 % • An affordable and reliable transportation alternative like BRT can provide an important mobility solution 6 % for residents along the corridor. 4%

Median Household Income by Census Block Group, 2019 S.Saunders - Pullen Pullen - Gorman Gorman - I440 I440 - I40 Western Blvd. Corridor Citywide Source: ESRI Business Analyst $ 44K Corridor Median Income Residents That Commute Via Bus, 2019

$ 66K 15% Citywide Median Income

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4 I-440 to I-40 S.Saunders - Pullen Pullen - Gorman Gorman - I440 I440 - I40 Western Blvd. Corridor Citywide

Source: ESRI Business Analyst $0-$40K $40-$70K $70-$95K $95-$135K $135K+

Source: ESRI Business Analyst Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) WAKE BRT: WESTERN BOULEVARD CORRIDOR STUDY

RESIDENTIAL TREND

Types of Residential Buildings Along Western Boulevard 1 - 3 Stories • Apartments along the corridor are typically 1-3 stories tall. Higher density 4 - 7 Stories apartments tend to be student housing near NC State University. 8+ Stories • Average monthly rents along the corridor are $200 higher than the citywide average, brought up by high rents from residential properties near 4 Downtown and NC State. 3 • In buildings farther from Downtown, the average monthly rent of all 2 buildings is equal to or below the citywide average of $1,200. • Median home values along the corridor are $14,000 higher than the citywide median of $261,000, and are even higher closer to Downtown. 1 • BRT has the potential to encourage more housing along the corridor since enhanced mobility and investments around stations will be attractive to potential residents. • Policies promoting equitable development are important to ensure that Example 1-3 Story Bldg: Example 4-7 Story Bldg: Example 8+ Story Bldg: both current and new residents can benefit from the transit investment. Bacarra Apts Signature 1505 Westgrove Tower

Source: CoStar

Average Median 1201 Pine Haven Dr Delivered since MultifamilyMultifamily Rent,Rent, 2010 2010-2019-2019 Submarket Monthly Rent 2017, 314 Units Residential Deliveries Along Western Boulevard Since 2016 Home Value 2016 $1.60$1.60 Per Unit The Standard at Raleigh Pipeline $1.41$1.41 S. Saunders 2019, 217 Units $1.40 1 $1,560 $365K 3411 Hillsborough St $1.40 – Pullen 2020, 180 Units $1.25$1.25 1505 Hillsborough St Pullen – 4 2018, 150 Units $1.20$1.20 2 $1,880 $287K Gorman

$1.00 3 $1.00 Gorman – 3 $930 $224K I440 2 $0.80 $0.80 6411 Farmgate Rd 4 I440 – I40 $1,220 $201K 2016, 512 Units $0.60 700-708 Gannett St 1

Monthly Rent per Square Feet $0.60 Western 2019, 50 Units Blvd. $1,400 $275K 928 Chaney Rd 5717 Hillsborough St Corridor 2017, 4 Units $0.40$0.40 2020, 176 Units 600 Bilyeu St 105 Friendly Drive 2020, 100 units 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2017 2018 2019 2010 2016 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Citywide $1,200 $261K 2016, 16 Units

Source: CoStar CityCity Western Blvd. Blvd. Corridor Corridor Downtown $1,470 $360K

Source: CoStar Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) WAKE BRT: WESTERN BOULEVARD CORRIDOR STUDY

OFFICE TREND 6 — 69 Jobs Jobs within 1 Mile Corridor, 2015

• The office market along the corridor is limited in size and no new buildings are under 70 — 359 Jobs construction. 360 — 1,129 Jobs • Recent projects cluster around NC State’s Centennial Campus and the Raleigh Raleigh Corporate NC State Main Corporate Center office complex. Center Campus 1,130 — 1,129 Jobs

• Newer office buildings tend to be highly amenitized with rents well above the citywide average. NC State Centennial Campus • BRT will likely encourage less office development than residential development given the lack of momentum for office uses on the corridor.

• With appropriate physical connections, BRT can make Centennial Campus and the Raleigh Corporate Center office complex more attractive.

Source: LEHD OnTheMap Office Vacancy, 2010-2019

New Offices Since 2010 Annual Office Submarket Rent Per Square Foot

751 Corporate Center Dr 1 S. Saunders – Pullen $22.59 2018, 96K SF $31 PSF 4 2 Pullen – Gorman $20.40 3 3 Gorman – I440 N/A 2 751 Corporate Center Dr 2018, 96K SF 4 I440 – I40 $19.74 $31 PSF 1 Western Blvd. $20.87 Corridor

751 Corporate Center Dr 2018, 96K SF Citywide $25.21 $31 PSF

Downtown $33.79

Source: CoStar Source: CoStar Source: CoStar Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) WAKE BRT: WESTERN BOULEVARD CORRIDOR STUDY

RETAIL TREND

• There are three major retail clusters along Western Boulevard itself: Mission Valley 10-Minute Drive Shopping Center, mid-sized strip plazas and fast-food drive-throughs between Retail Market Area Gorman Street and the Beltline, and Plaza West Shopping Center.

Creekside Crossing & Shops • These retail clusters primarily consist of sit-down and fast food restaurants and convenience-oriented stores that serve the daily needs of local residential Northwoods Northside Shopping communities. Shopping Center Center

• On the northern edge of the corridor, Hillsborough Street features a variety of retail and restaurant offerings serving the population of NC State University. There is Cameron Village also a cluster of independent food and beverage tenants on the western edge of Downtown Raleigh.

Cary Village • With the opening of a BRT system, the corridor is poised for new ground floor, transit- Shopping Center oriented retail that draws local residents attracted to mixed-use environments. Walnut Creek Shopping Center • The corridor will likely continue to face considerable competition in becoming a shopping destination that attracts a significant customer base from outside the

study area. Crossroads Plaza

Source: ESRI Business Analyst

D. Hillsborough St E. Independent Shopping District F& B

4 A. Plaza West Shopping Center, 63K B. Fast Food Restaurants and Retail Strip C. Mission Valley Shopping Center, 3 Sq. Feet Plaza 75K Sq. Feet Anchor: E.g.: Cook Out, Bojangles, McDonald’s, Anchor: Dollar Tree 2 Amedeo’s, Food Lion, Advanced Auto Parts

1 E. Independent Food & Beverage E.g. The Remedy Diner, Irregardless Café

A. Plaza West Shopping B. Western/German Fast Food C. Mission Valley Shop- Center Restaurant Strip Plaza ping Center D. Hillsborough Street Shopping District E.g. Target, Poke Bar, CVS Pharmacy, Guasaca Source: CoStar