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2O18 Regional Transportation Improvement Program Final 2018 Regional Transportation Improvement Program September 2018 401 B Street, Suite 800 • San Diego, CA 92101-4231 • (619) 699-1900 BOARD OF DIRECTORS The 18 cities and county government are SANDAG serving as the forum for regional decision-making. SANDAG builds consensus; plans, engineers, and builds public transit; makes strategic plans; obtains and allocates resources; and provides information on a broad range of topics pertinent to the region’s quality of life. CHAIR VICE CHAIR CHIEF DEPUTY Hon. Terry Sinnott Hon. Steve Vaus EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Kim Kawada CITY OF CARLSBAD CITY OF SANTEE Hon. Matt Hall, Mayor Hon. John Minto, Mayor (A) Hon. Keith Blackburn, Mayor Pro Tem (A) Hon. Ronn Hall, Councilmember (A) Hon. Mark Packard, Councilmember (A) Hon. Rob McNelis, Vice Mayor CITY OF CHULA VISTA CITY OF SOLANA BEACH Hon. Mary Salas, Mayor Hon. David A. Zito, Mayor (A) Hon. Steve Padilla, Councilmember (A) Hon. Jewel Edson, Deputy Mayor (A) Hon. John McCann, Councilmember (A) Hon. Lesa Heebner, Councilmember CITY OF CORONADO CITY OF VISTA Hon. Richard Bailey, Mayor Hon. Judy Ritter, Mayor (A) Hon. Bill Sandke, Councilmember (A) Hon. John Aguilera, Councilmember (A) Hon. Carrie Downey, Councilmember (A) Hon. Amanda Rigby, Councilmember CITY OF DEL MAR COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO Hon. Terry Sinnott, Councilmember Hon. Bill Horn, Supervisor (A) Hon. Ellie Haviland, Councilmember (A) Hon. Dianne Jacob, Supervisor (A) Hon. Dave Druker, Deputy Mayor (A) Hon. Kristin Gaspar, Chair Hon. Ron Roberts, Supervisor CITY OF EL CAJON (A) Hon. Greg Cox, Supervisor Hon. Bill Wells, Mayor (A) Hon. Kristin Gaspar, Chair (A) Hon. Steve Goble, Councilmember CITY OF ENCINITAS ADVISORY MEMBERS Hon. Catherine Blakespear, Mayor IMPERIAL COUNTY (A) Hon. Tony Kranz, Councilmember (A) Hon. Tasha Boerner Horvath, Councilmember Hon. John Renison, Supervisor, District 1 (A) Mark Baza, Imperial County Transportation CITY OF ESCONDIDO Commission Hon. Sam Abed, Mayor CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (A) Hon. John Masson, Councilmember (A) Hon. Ed Gallo, Councilmember Laurie Berman, Director (A) Cory Binns, District 11 Director CITY OF IMPERIAL BEACH (A) Ann Fox, Deputy Director Hon. Serge Dedina, Mayor METROPOLITAN TRANSIT SYSTEM (A) Hon. Mark West, Mayor Pro Tem (A) Hon. Robert Patton, Councilmember Hon. Mona Rios (A) Hon. Bill Sandke CITY OF LA MESA NORTH COUNTY TRANSIT DISTRICT Hon. Kristine Alessio, Councilmember (A) Hon. Bill Baber, Councilmember Hon. Rebecca Jones, Chair (A) Hon. Colin Parent, Councilmember (A) Hon. Ed Gallo (A) Hon. Jewel Edson CITY OF LEMON GROVE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Hon. Racquel Vasquez, Mayor (A) Hon. Jerry Jones, Mayor Pro Tem Joe Stuyvesant, Navy Region Southwest (A) Hon. Jennifer Mendoza, Councilmember Executive Director (A) Steve Chung, Navy Region Southwest CITY OF NATIONAL CITY SAN DIEGO UNIFIED PORT DISTRICT Hon. Ron Morrison, Mayor (A) Hon. Alejandra Sotelo-Solis, Councilmember Hon. Garry Bonelli, Vice Chair (A) Hon. Mona Rios, Councilmember (A) Hon. Michael Zucchet, Commissioner CITY OF OCEANSIDE SAN DIEGO COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY Hon. Chuck Lowery, Deputy Mayor Mark Muir, Chair (A) Hon. Jerry Kern, Councilmember (A) Jim Madaffer, Vice Chair (A) Hon. Jack Feller, Councilmember (A) Christy Guerin, Director CITY OF POWAY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIBAL Hon. Steve Vaus, Mayor CHAIRMEN’S ASSOCIATION (A) Vacant Hon. Cody Martinez, Chairman, (A) Hon. John Mullin, Councilmember Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation Hon. Robert Smith, Chairman, CITY OF SAN DIEGO Pala Band of Mission Indians Hon. Kevin Faulconer, Mayor (A) Hon. Lorie Zapf, Councilmember MEXICO (A) Hon. Chris Cate, Councilmember Hon. Marcela Celorio, Hon. Myrtle Cole, Council President Cónsul General of Mexico (A) Hon. Barbara Bry, Councilmember (A) Gaspar Orozco (A) Hon. Georgette Gomez, Councilmember Deputy Cónsul General of Mexico (A) Hon. Ruth Alicia López, Vice Cónsul CITY OF SAN MARCOS Hon. Jim Desmond, Mayor (A) Hon. Chris Orlando, Councilmember (A) Hon. Kristal Jabara, Councilmember ii August 27, 2018 MNDAG 401 B Street, Suite 800 RESOLUTION NO. RTC-2019-01 San Diego, CA 921 0 1 Phone (619) 699-1900 Fax (619) 699-1905 www.sandag.org ADOPTING THE 2018 REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AND ITS AIR QUALITY CONFORMITY ANALYSIS AND THE AIR QUALITY REDOERMINATION WHEREAS, Title 23 and 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations require the preparation and updating of a Transportation Improvement Program by the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO); and WHEREAS, Sections 14527 and 65082 of the California Government Code require the biennial preparation of a Regional Transportation Improvement Program (RTIP) by the Regional Transportation Planning Agency (RTPA); and WHEREAS, the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) has been designated the MPO and the RTPA for the San Diego region; and WHEREAS, the San Diego Transportation Improvement Program Ordinance and Expenditure Plan (Proposition A 2004) further provide that the SAN DAG Board of Directors, acting as the San Diego County Regional Transportation Commission (RTC), shall approve a multiyear TransNet sales tax funded Program of Projects (POP) as part of the RTIP; and WHEREAS, SANDAG, through the conduct of a continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive transportation planning process and in conformance with all applicable federal and state requirements, has prepared the 2018 RTIP, including an updated TransNet POP for the San Diego region; and WHEREAS, the 2018 RTIP has been found to be in conformance with the San Diego Forward: The Regional Plan (Regional Plan), the 2016 Regional Air Quality Strategy (RAQS), all applicable State Implementation Plans (SIPs), the California Transportation Commission adopted 2018 State Transportation Improvement Program, Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, and the TransNet Ordinance and Expenditure Plans, including reasonable available funding provisions; and WHEREAS, the 2018 RTIP projects have been developed from the Revenue Constrained Regional Plan and satisfy the transportation conformity provisions of 40 CFR 93.122(9) and all applicable transportation planning requirements per 23 CFR Part 450 including the performance based planning requirements; and WHEREAS, the 2018 RTIP projects are fiscally constrained as shown in Tables 4-1a through 4-1c; and iii WHEREAS, the public and affected agencies have been provided notice of and an opportunity to comment on the 2018 RTIP and its air quality conformity determination and the redetermination of the Revenue Constrained Regional Plan and agencies with funding allocations in the 2018 RTIP have been directed to hold public meetings on their respective projects; and WHEREAS, the public was given a 30-day comment period on the 2018 RTIP with notices sent in English and Spanish to extensive mailing lists used by SANDAG, including its Community-Based Organization Outreach Network, which reaches a wide variety of minority, low-income, disabled, elderly, and limited English proficiency populations; and a public hearing was held at a SAN DAG Transportation Committee meeting on September 7, 2018, to present the 2018 RTIP and its air quality conformity determination and the redetermination of conformity of the Revenue Constrained Regional Plan; and to solicit additional testimony from the public; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the SAN DAG Board of Directors, ALSO ACTING AS THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION (Collectively SANDAG), DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: That SANDAG finds the 2018 RTIP and the Revenue Constrained Regional Plan, in conformance with the applicable SIPs for the San Diego region; and That SAN DAG has taken into consideration the comments received by SAN DAG from the public on the 2018 RTIP and its air quality conformity determination; and That SAN DAG has reviewed the TransNet POP submitted by the local agencies and finds them to be consistent with the provisions of San Diego Transportation Improvement Program Ordinance and Expenditure Plan (Proposition A 2004) and with the Revenue Constrained Regional Plan; and That SAN DAG approves the FY 2019 to FY 2023 TransNet POP, as incorporated in the 2018 RTIP; and That the 2018 RTIP, and the FY 2019 to 2023 TransNet POP, have been developed based upon an estimate of reasonably available revenues for the program period. Actual transportation fund availability to each eligible recipient/project applicant will be based on actual federal/state fund apportionments, including obligation authority limitations, and TransNet sales tax receipts; and That SAN DAG does hereby adopt the 2018 RTIP and its air quality conformity determination, and the redetermination of conformity of the Revenue Constrained Regional Plan; and That all regionally significant, capacity increasing projects included in the 2018 RTIP are also included in the Revenue Constrained Regional Plan; and That the adoption of the 2018 RTIP constitutes the Intergovernmental Review Procedures for those projects listed in the RTIP. The 2018 RTIP approval does not constitute project level design or environmental approval, which is conducted according to state and federal regulations; and That the inclusion of any federally funded projects in the 2018 RTIP, including all amendments, constitutes the federal Expedited Project Selection Process procedures for the San Diego region, and any projects programmed in the RTIP may proceed to implementation without further project selection action by SAN DAG; and That the SAND AG approval of the