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Adopt a resolution to:
a. Certify that the Board of Supervisors has considered the previously certified Environmental Impact Report for the 2035 Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy and Regional Transportation Plans for Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties;
b. Approve and Authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement Terminating Memorandum of Agreement Concerning the Realignment of the Multi-Modal Corridor Transit on the Former Fort Ord; and
c. Approve and Authorize the Chair to execute the new Memorandum of Agreement Concerning the Realignment of the Multi-Modal Corridor Transit on the Former Fort Ord.
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors adopt a resolution to:
a. Certify that the Board of Supervisors has considered the previously certified Environmental Impact Report for the 2035 Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy and Regional Transportation Plans for Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties ;
b. Approve and Authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement Terminating Memorandum of Agreement Concerning the Realignment of the Multi-Modal Corridor Transit on the Former Fort Ord; and
c. Approve and Authorize the Chair to execute the new Memorandum of Agreement Concerning the Realignment of the Multi-Modal Corridor Transit on the Former Fort Ord.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The Fort Ord Base Reuse Plan includes the designation of a multi-modal corridor along the “Imjin Parkway/Blanco Road” corridor. In 2010, the Fort Ord Reuse Authority (FORA), the County, and several other local agencies entered into a Memorandum of Agreement Concerning the Realignment of the Multi-modal Transit Corridor on the Former Fort Ord (2010 MOA) to agree to cooperate to process a new alignment (hereafter the “2010 alignment”). .
Due to the desire of the parties to the 2010 MOA to reassess the 2010 Alignment, the Transportation Agency for Monterey County (TAMC) led the development of a Marina-Salinas Multi-Modal Corridor Conceptual Plan, which identified a new alignment based on input from the parties, stakeholders and the public (shown in Exhibit 2 of the new MOA). On June 24, 2015, TAMC approved the Marina-Salinas Multi-Modal Corridor Plan (TAMC Resolution 2015-15.)
The Board is asked to approve the proposed Agreement Terminating Memorandum of Agreement (Attachment B to the staff report) and approve a new Memorandum of Agreement (Attachment C to the staff report). The new Memorandum of Agreement includes the following terms and conditions:
• The jurisdictions agree to cooperate with each other to consider and integrate applicable provisions of the Marina-Salinas Multi-Modal Corridor Plan in accordance with law, and to incorporate the concepts and provisions of the Plan into their respective jurisdictional planning and design documents;
• The Parties shall be responsible for its own engineering or design costs resulting from the integration of the Marina-Salinas Multi-Modal Corridor Conceptual Plan into that jurisdiction’s planning and design documents;
• The Parties agree to permit the imposition of necessary easements and/or reservation of rights over such property by FORA in any conveyance; and
• The Parties agree to take such action as necessary and appropriate to release any easements or right of way reservations over land which is not necessary for the alignment as described in the plan.
The proposed parties to the new MOA are FORA, the City of Marina, the City of Salinas, California State University Monterey Bay, University of California Santa Cruz, Monterey Salinas Transit District, the Transportation Agency for Monterey County, and the County.
In approving the Marina-Salinas Multi-Modal Corridor Plan, TAMC considered the Environmental Impact Report certified by the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments (EIR) for the 2035 Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy and Regional Transportation Plans for Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties. TAMC found that no additional environmental analysis was needed because the Multi-Modal Corridor Plan was identified and reviewed as part of the Regional Transportation Plan analyzed by the EIR. (TAMC Resol. No. 2015-15, attached as Exhibit 3 to the new MOA.) The MOA does not commit to funding or construction of any project, and TAMC recognizes that individual projects will need appropriate project-level environmental review. Accordingly, the proposed California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) action for the Board of Supervisors is to consider the EIR and find that there have been no substantial changes to the project, no substantial changes in circumstances, and no new information of substantial importance that would require major revisions in the EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental impacts or substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects.
OTHER AGENCY INVOLVEMENT:
The Office of the County Counsel has reviewed the Agreements as to form. TAMC led the development of a Marina-Salinas Multi-Modal Corridor Conceptual Plan which identified the new alignment. Other entities who may become signators of the MOA include FORA, the City of Marina, the City of Salinas, California State University Monterey Bay, University of California Santa Cruz, Monterey Salinas Transit District, and the Transportation Agency for Monterey County. All the signing parties to the 2010 MOA except the County of Monterey and the Successor Agency have approved termination of the 2010 MOA. All the parties to the new MOA, except the County of Monterey and the Successor Agency have approved the new MOA.
FINANCING:
There is no immediate impact to the General Fund by receiving this report. The costs associated with implementing the MOA will require funding to integrate into future projects. The expected sources of funding are regional impact fees collected under the TAMC and FORA impact fee programs as well as State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) funds. The Board will have an additional opportunity to review the funding of these projects when they are programmed as part future approved budget allocations for the RMA.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS STRATEGIC INITIATIVES:
This item supports the Board’s efforts to provide adequate infrastructure by partnering to develop a multi-modal transit corridor.
Check the related Board of Supervisors Strategic Initiatives:
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__ Administration
__ Health & Human Services
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Prepared by: Mohammad Qureshi, Ph.D., P.E., Traffic Engineer, 831-796-3009
Approved by: Carl P. Holm, AICP, RMA Director
The following attachments are on file with the Clerk of the Board:
Attachment A - Resolution
Attachment B - Agreement Terminating Memorandum of Agreement concerning the Realignment of the Multi-Modal Corridor Transit on the Former Fort Ord
Attachment C - Memorandum of Agreement Concerning the Realignment of the Multi-Modal Corridor Transit on the Former Fort Ord
Exhibit 1 - 2010 Memorandum of Agreement Concerning the Realignment of the Multi-Modal Transit Corridor on the Former Fort Ord (dated Nov. 2, 2010)
Exhibit 2 - Marina-Salinas Multi-Modal Corridor Conceptual Plan Corridor Alignment
Exhibit 3 - TAMC Resolution 2015-15