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Agenda Item # 11

BOARD MEMORANDUM

RECOMMENDATION:

Review and comment on the Valley Transportation Plan 2030 (VTP 2030) as Santa Clara County’s long-range countywide transportation plan for adoption by the VTA Board of Directors.

BACKGROUND:

As the Congestion Management Agency for Santa Clara County, VTA has developed a long-range countywide transportation plan called Valley Transportation Plan (VTP) 2030. This is an update to VTP 2020 adopted by the VTA Board in December 2000.   VTP 2030 provides policies and programs for roadways, transit, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)/Systems Operations Management (SOM), bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and land use/transportation integration.  VTP 2030 projects serve as VTA’s recommendations for the regional transportation plan (RTP), called Transportation Plan 2030 (T2030), scheduled for adoption by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) in early 2005.

At its April 2004 meeting, the VTA Board adopted the VTP 2030 Program Area Allocations and projects lists contained in the plan.   This action followed a six-month outreach and education program that included Board Workshops, open house meetings throughout the County, and an interactive Web site. Since May 2004, staff has been working with MTC to ensure that the appropriate VTP 2030 project assumptions and model information are included in the development of the RTP, to be released in early 2005.   In addition, staff has been developing a new VTP 2030 Transportation Model that includes the projects contained in the RTP and VTP 2030 project lists and preparing the draft VTP 2030 document. 

VTP 2030 is not a programming document, and does not set priorities or schedules for when projects are implemented.   It does not set priorities or schedules for when projects will be implemented, or make assumptions regarding financing costs that may be needed to implement specific projects at specific times.   The VTA Board and its partners will determine an expenditure program to guide project priorities and schedules, and affirm them in short-range programming documents. 

DISCUSSION:

Each of the Advisory and Standing VTA Committees, except for the Policy Advisory Committee (PAC), received a staff presentation on VTP 2030 in November 2004.   Because the PAC did not meet in November, PAC members received the VTP 2030 via mail for review and comment.  Staff has returned to the PAC to solicit final comments on the VTP 2030 that will be incorporated into the final document where appropriate.  VTP 2030 will be presented to the VTA Board at its February 2005 meeting for adoption.

The Draft VTP 2030 document contains the following elements:

• Plan vision, goals and objectives.
• Fund projections from existing sources consistent with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s (MTC) Regional Transportation Plan (RTP).
• A description of the capital investments and services to be pursued.
• Land Use and Partnership programs to continue and expand VTA’s involvement in land/ use and livability initiatives and better link transportation and land use decision-making.
• Near-term implementation tasks and future transportation studies to be undertaken.

ALTERNATIVES:

The VTA Board may recommend modifications to the VTP 2030 document.

FISCAL IMPACT:

There is no direct fiscal impact from the adoption of VTP 2030.

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