FY2017-2021 Regional Transportation Improvement Program Report Number 1-2017 Adopted by the COMPASS Board of Directors October 17, 2016 Resolution No
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FY2017-2021 Regional Transportation Improvement Program Report Number 1-2017 Adopted by the COMPASS Board of Directors October 17, 2016 Resolution No. 01-2017 Amended: December 13, 2016, February 27, 2017, April 17, 2017, June 19, 2017, August 28, 2017, and September 12, 2017. Modified: October 19, 2016, November 7, 2016, December 13, 2016, January 13, 2017, January 20, 2017, February 6, 2017, February 10, 2017, March 8, 2017, March 21, 2017, April 13, 2017, May 9, 2017, May 24, 2017, July 10, 2017, July 26, 2017, September 1, 2017, October 24, 2017, November 9, 2017, and December 7, 2017. The completion of this document was financed by U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) funds through the Idaho Transportation Department and contributions from member agencies within Ada and Canyon Counties. T:\FY18\600 Projects\685 TIP\FY1721TIP\Reports\FY2017TIPrpt.docx TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... 1 II. FORMATTING .............................................................................................. 4 III. PUBLIC OUTREACH EFFORTS ....................................................................... 4 III. TIP ACHIEVEMENT ....................................................................................... 8 IV. AIR QUALITY CONFORMITY ............................................................................ 12 V. LOCAL PLANNING ACTIVITIES ......................................................................... 12 VI. FUNDING CATEGORIES .............................................................................13 VII. FINANCIAL CONSTRAINT ........................................................................... 18 VIII. PROGRAM FUNDING ALLOCATIONS ............................................................ 29 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: TIP Achievement Categories................................................................. 9 Table 2: Criteria for TIP Achievement Categories................................................. 10 Table 3: Analysis of TIP Achievement .................................................................... 11 Table 4: Available Funding* with Match vs. Programmed Projects (AvP) DRAFT FY2017-2021 Idaho Transportation Investment Program ................................ 23 Table 5: Ada Co unty Highway District Budget Histo ry, 2008 - 2015..................... 24 Table 6: Ada County Highway District Budget Program, FY2016 - FY2021 Projected Revenues and Expenditures for Capital Projects............................... 25 Table 7: Nampa Urbaniz ed Area Cities and Highway Districts Budget Histo ry, 2008-2015 ................................................................................................... 25 Table 8: Nampa Urbanized Area Cities and Highway Districts Budget Projections, 2015-2020 ................................................................................. 26 Table 9: Other Canyon County Cities and Highway Districts Budget History, 2008-2015 ................................................................................................... 26 Table 10: Other Canyon County Cities and Highway Districts Budget Projections, 2016-2020 ................................................................................................... 26 Table 11: Valley Regio nal Transit Budget Histo ry, 2008-2015 ............................. 27 Table 12: Valley Regio nal Transit Budget Pro jectio ns, 2016-2020 ....................... 27 Table 13. COMPASS Regio n Available vs. Pro grammed Funding ........................... 28 Table 14: Share of Project Costs Allocated to Alternative Modes of Transportation .............................................................................................. 29 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: COMPASS Planning Area ..........................................................................2 Figure 2: Northern Ada County Air Quality Maintenance Area ..................................... 3 Figure 3: Idaho Transportation Department FY2017 Appropriations (Senate Bill 1423) .............................................................................................................21 Figure 4: Idaho Transportation Department Highway User Revenue - FY2017 ............21 APPENDICES A. List of Projects .............................................................................................. 30 B. Public Comments ........................................................................................... 148 I. INTRODUCTION The Regional Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) is a short-range (3-5 year) capital improvement program (budget) of transportation projects consistent with federal regulations and area policies and strategies. The Idaho Transportation Investment Program (ITIP) is the state’s short-range capital improvement program. The ITIP references projects in Ada County and Canyon County via the Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho (COMPASS) TIP. The TIP is developed through a cooperative process by COMPASS, the designated metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for the Nampa Urbanized Area and the Boise Urbanized Area Transportation Management Area (TMA). This process involves extensive participation by the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD); Ada County Highway District (ACHD); Canyon Highway District; Ada and Canyon Counties; the cities of Boise, Caldwell, Eagle, Garden City, Kuna, Meridian, Middleton, Nampa, Parma, Star, and W ilder; Capital City Development Corporation; and Valley Regional Transit (VRT), the regional public transportation authority. The TIP must be consistent with the regional long-range transportation plan, Communities in Motion 2040 (CIM 2040). The COMPASS Board of Directors adopted CIM 2040 on July 21, 2014. The plan is comprised of long-range transportation corridors, a short-range public transportation component, air quality conformity, pathway development, and transportation system management elements. CIM 2040 is consistent with the goals and objectives of the area’s comprehensive plans. The first four years of the TIP are of particular interest since the years are considered as "budgeted," while the remaining years are more informational in nature. The latter projects are listed to provide a framework for transportation needs that move from the planning stage to the implementation stage. Per federal regulations, information on the status of projects in the first year of the previous TIP will be posted online by December 2016 at www.compassidaho.org/prodserv/transimprovement.htm under “Annual Listing of Projects.” This document includes all federally funded projects and those non-federally funded projects deemed “regionally significant” for air quality conformity purposes in Ada County (see page 18 for the definition of “regionally significant”). The TIP projects identified in this document are within the estimates of available funds from a variety of sources, both federal and non-federal. The Boise TMA includes the cities of Boise, Eagle, Meridian, and Garden City; and the Nampa Urbanized Area includes the cities of Nampa, Caldwell, and Middleton, as well as adjacent densely settled areas as shown in Figure 1. The smoothed urbanized area boundaries for the Boise and Nampa areas were adopted by the COMPASS Board of Directors, via Resolution 15-2013, on August 19, 2013. The planning area includes all of Ada and Canyon Counties. The Ada County air quality “maintenance area” encompasses the entire area of Ada County north of the Boise Baseline (Figure 2), located seven miles south of the City of Kuna. Northern Ada County is a maintenance area for two air pollutants – coarse particulate matter (airborne dust and other particles; referred to as “PM10”) and carbon monoxide. Northern Ada County violated the federal standard for these pollutants in the 1980s and early 1990s, and has been in compliance ever since. Plans are in place to ensure the area maintains its compliance with these standards. The urban clusters of the cities of Kuna and Star are inside the planning area and the maintenance area. 1 Figure 1: COMPASS Planning Area 2 Figure 2: Northern Ada County Air Quality Maintenance Area 3 II. FORMATTING The Federal Highway Administration (FHW A) and ITD met early in 2010 with the intent of finding ways to more efficiently manage the ITIP process. a. FHWA requires all reporting documents be shown in the year of expenditure. This means project costs must be shown with inflationary factors expected for the year funds will be expended. b. Agencies in the State of Idaho currently use a 2% inflation factor to adjust the cost of future expenditures for most projects. III. PUBLIC OUTREACH EFFORTS The public outreach process for the annual TIP begins approximately 16 months prior to its final approval. This effort includes requesting input from the local governments in the Boise and Nampa Urbanized Areas, local governments outside the urbanized areas within Ada and Canyon Counties, and the general public. Public outreach efforts were guided by, and comply with, requirements and recommendations outlined in the COMPASS Public Involvement Plan (Section II of the COMPASS Integrated Communication Plan, www.compassidaho.org/people/publicinvolvement.htm). Chapter 5 of the Integrated Communication Plan specifically outlines the public involvement process for the TIP. Local Governments’ Input. Some local governments in Ada County have a designated transportation task force committee to provide input into the development of the annual TIP