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Local Advisory Council |
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Jay Fox, Executive Director |
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Mary DeLoretto, Chief Capital Services Officer |
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PRESENTER(S): |
Patti Garver, Manager of Environmental Services |
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TITLE:
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AR2023-05-01 - Resolution Approving the Davis-Salt Lake City Community Connector Locally Preferred Alternative and Recommending Approval by the Authority’s Board of Trustees
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AGENDA ITEM TYPE:
Resolution
RECOMMENDATION:
Approve Resolution AR-2023-05-01 Davis-SLC Community Connector Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA) and recommend approval by UTA’s Board of Trustees.
BACKGROUND:
The Davis-Salt Lake City Community Connector is a proposed corridor-based bus rapid transit (BRT) system between Farmington City and Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2014, the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) conducted an alternatives analysis and, with input from the community, selected a preferred corridor connecting downtown Salt Lake City with the Woods Cross Front Runner station. In 2021, this alignment was modified to extend northward to the Farmington FrontRunner station, and to continue eastward from downtown Salt Lake City into the University of Utah and Research Park.
DISCUSSION:
The approximate 26-mile corridor will have 15-minute all day service (14 hours per day) with 30-minute service in the early mornings and late evenings. The alignment will include 12 transit stations between approximately 500 South in Bountiful to 200 South in Salt Lake City. These stations are proposed to have passenger amenities such as platforms with shelters, real-time bus arrival information on electronic signs, and night-time platform lighting. The project also overlaps with Salt Lake City’s 200 South Transit Corridor project, currently under construction. Salt Lake City’s 200 South bus stops will have transit priority lanes, in-lane bus stops with floating bus stops with buffered bike lanes. The Davis-Salt Lake City Community Connector will overlap with these enhanced transit stops at 300 East, 500 East, 700 East, and 900 East.
As stated in Board of Trustees Policy No. 3.3, Capital Development Project Implementation, a Capital Project Plan, along with comments received from affected partners, will be presented to the UTA Local Advisory Council for its approval and recommendation for adoption by the Board of Trustees. The Capital Project Plan will then advance to the UTA Board of Trustees for its final approval and adoption, and to the federal funding agency if federal funding is being sought.
The LPA is being presented today for approval by the Local Advisory Council. The Capital Project Plan, which will include the LPA and the proposed project funding plan, will be presented at a later date, once funding sources have been determined.
ALTERNATIVES:
If this LPA is not adopted by the Local Advisory Council and the Board of Trustees, the project will be further delayed.
FISCAL IMPACT:
UTA has already been selected to receive $1.5M in flex funds from Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC) for project design. The estimated capital construction costs for the project are included in UTA’s 5-Year Capital Plan.
ATTACHMENTS:
Resolution AR2023-05-01