COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT: Briefing Regarding the Strategic Multi-Modal Transportation Plan
SUMMARY: The Transportation and Capital Improvements (TCI) Department will provide a briefing on the Strategic Multi-Modal Transportation Plan.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The City is about to embark on creation of a Strategic Multi-Modal Transportation Plan. This Plan will articulate the City's transportation strategy and project prioritization method. The end product will be a document, similar to the Downtown Transportation Study. The Plan will serve as a tool that can be utilized in subsequent years by San Antonio departments and policy makers to analyze annual transportation priorities to best meet overall community short-term and long-term goals. The Plan will:
§ Be a critical component of the San Antonio Comprehensive Plan
§ Help implement SA 2020
§ Complement the MPO 2040 Long Range Regional Transportation Plan
§ Connect Land use, Development, Redevelopment, and Transportation
§ Help accommodate projected growth of one million additional people by 2040
§ Enable City to make data-driven proactive rather than reactive transportation decisions
§ Maximizes infrastructure investments from local, state, and federal sources
§ Reconcile existing plans, policies, and assumptions
The creation of Strategic Multi-Modal Transportation Plan will begin in the Fall of 2014 and be complete by the Spring of 2016. The Strategic Multi-Modal Transportation Plan (SMMTP) will become a critical component of the Comprehensive Plan. The two plans efforts will be coordinated in terms of analysis and public outreach.
The City allocated $1 million for the Transportation Plan in FY 2014. An additional $2 million was awarded by the Metropolitan Planning Organization in March of 2014. A submittal to secure an additional $3 million to support the Transportation Plan and the Comprehensive Plan was submitted to the US Department of Transportation through the TIGER grant program. Awards are anticipated to be announced in late summer.
ALTERNATIVES: None at this time. This is only a briefing.
FISCAL IMPACT: No fiscal impact associated with this briefing.
RECOMMENDATION: None. TCI continue to provide periodic updates to the committee.