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MEASURE M
MASTER PLAN OF ARTERIAL HIGHWAYS CONSISTENCY
The City Council of the City of Newport Beach hereby
resolves, determines, and orders as follows:
WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach desires to maintain and
• improve the streets and roads within its jurisdiction;
WHEREAS, the City supports regional coordination of
transportation improvements;
WHEREAS, the City desires to use funds collected from the
Revised Orange County Traffic Improvement and Growth Management
Ordinance for transportation maintenance and improvement
projects.
WHEREAS, the Revised Orange County Traffic Improvement and
Growth Management Ordinance states that within six months after
approval of the Retail Tax by the electors, the Orange County
Local Transportation Authority (OCLTA), through a cooperative
process involving the County and all of the cities within the
County, shall adopt a definition of, and a process for,
determining consistency of each jurisdiction's Traffic
Circulation Plan with the Master Plan of Arterial Highways
(MPAH).
WHEREAS, representatives from the OCLTA, City Engineers
Association, City Managers Association and the County of Orange
have developed a definition of, and process for, determining
consistency of each jurisdiction's Traffic Circulation Element
with the MPAH (Attachment A) which was endorsed by a unanimous
vote of the Orange County Division of the League of California
Cities.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of
the City of Newport Beach hereby endorses the Regional Funding
• Program Consistency and Eligibility Criteria as included in
Attachment A as the definition of, and process for, determining
consistency of the City of Newport Beach's Traffic Circulation
Plan with the MPAH.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Newport Beach
hereby attests that no unilateral reduction in lands has been
made on any MPAH arterials.
• Adopted this 28th day of May ,1991
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ATTACHMENT A
REGIONAL FUNDING PROGRAM CONSISTENCY AND ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
CONSISTENCY DEFINITION
Consistency with the Master Plan of Arterial Highways (MPAH) is the primary
criterion for determining city and county commitment to maintaining the integrity
of the regional transportation system. For a city circulation element to be
consistent with the MPAH, for purposes of regional funding program eligibility,
• it shall have an equivalent planned traffic - carrying capacity for all MPAH links
within the city's jurisdiction.
"Planned capacity" shall be measured by the number of through lanes on each
arterial highway as shown on the local circulation element. Cities shall not
be inconsistent as a result of existing capacity limitations on arterials which
are not yet constructed to the circulation element designation. However, any
city which unilaterally reduces the number of through lanes of an'MPAH arterial.
highway on its circulation element to less than shown on the MPAH without County
approval shall be inconsistent with the MPAH on the date city council action is
taken and is ineligible for regional funding until consistency is re- established.
PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY
Local Agency Responsibility
Eligibility requirements shall be verified annually as follows:
1. For Measure M "Streets and Roads Maintenance and Road Improvements" ($450
million "turnback ") funds, cities shall adopt a General Plan Circulation
Element which does not preclude implementation of the MPAH and shall take no
action to preclude implementation of the MPAH.
2. For all competitive regional funding programs such as the Arterial Highway
Financing Program (AHFP), Orange County Unified Transportation Trust Fund
(0CUTT), Combined Road Fund (CRP), and Measure M "Regional Street and Road
Projects ", "MPAH Improvements" and "Growth Management Area Improvements ",
cities shall adopt:
a. a General Plan Circulation Element which is consistent with the MPAH, and
b. a City Council resolution attesting that no unilateral reduction in lanes
has been made on any MPAH arterials.
Annual Review Process
Each year , County shall determine if city circulation elements provide equal
numbers of through lanes for each highway shown on the MPAH. County shall also
ensure that local agencies have not unilaterally reduced the number of lanes on
any existing arterial highway (effective April 1, 1991).
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Approval Process
Upon completion of the review, a point committee of city and county
representatives will make recommendations for eligibility to the Orange County
Transportation Authority for Measure M. CRP, and OCUTT programs and to the County
�Board of Supervisors for Arterial Highway Financing Program. These
�tecommendations shall be reviewed and formally approved by OCiA and the Board.
RE- ESTABLISHING PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY
Once a city has been determined to be ineligible for regional funds, it may seek
to re- establish eligibility by requesting a cooperative study be undertaken with
County. The study will be designed to 1) ascertain the regional transportation
system need, 2) make provisions to meet those needs in the city General Plan and
3)re- establish consistency with the MPAH. Any changes to the city General Plan
or the MPAH shall be mutually acceptable to the city and the county. Until such
a study has been completed, the City shall be ineligible to receive applicable
funds.
MUTUAL CHANGES TO CIRCULATION ELEMENT AND MPAH
A city and the County may mutually revise their respective circulation elements
through the cooperative process outlined above. Cities shall continue to be
eligible to receive funds while the cooperative study process is underway.
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