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Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy Roundtable

January 22, 2025 2:00 pm

COG Sequoia Conference Room | 2035 Tulare St., Suite 201, Fresno, CA

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Summary: Fresno COG initiated the 2026 RTP Call for Projects on October 1st, 2024, and all projects were due by December 13th, 2024. Staff conducted a preliminary analysis of the received projects. Below is a summary by project type:

Project Type Count of Projects Percent of Total Projects Count Sum of Estimated Cost (in $1,000 USD) Percent of Total Estimated Cost
Bike & Ped 761 27.1% 929,788 8.9%
Streets & Roads – Capacity Increasing 280 10.0% 2,428,073 23.3%
Streets & Roads-Maintenance 1148 40.9% 1,471,334 14.1%
Streets & Roads-Operations 448 15.9% 2,402,794 23.1%
Transit 158 5.6% 3,104,603 29.8%
Other 14 0.5%  74,075 0.7%
Grand Total 2809 100.0%  10,410,847 100.0%

The next steps include (1) review the project information and answers to evaluation questions; (2) develop digital map to display all proposed projects for 2026 RTP; (3) rank the projects with the Project Evaluation Criteria established in the fall of 2024.

Action: Information only. Direction may be provided at the discretion of the Roundtable.

Summary: On November 13th, 2024, staff presented the proposed measures for the Environmental Justice Analysis of the 2026 Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy to the Environmental Justice Subcommittee. Staff revised the proposed measures based on EJ subcommittee recommendations and presented the updates to EJ subcommittee on January 8th, 2025.

The Environmental Justice Analysis of the Regional Transportation Plan includes various performance measures that compare the current transportation system to the future (2049) transportation system, which assumes the construction of all projects proposed in the preferred scenario including transit, capacity increasing, bike and pedestrian, and maintenance and operational improvement projects. The 2022 EJ Analysis included measures in eight topics: access to jobs and services, travel delay, transit productivity, distribution of investments by mode, distribution of road maintenance projects, targeted active transportation investments, housing mix, and pollution exposure.

Environmental Justice Analysis Measures Updates for 2026 RTP:

  • Staff proposed to conduct EJ analysis for both Equity Priority Communities (EPC) and Disadvantaged Communities (DAC), the EJ area definition approved by RTP round table in August 2024.
  • Staff suggested adding to EJ analysis:
    • a new indicator of Planned safety projects on the high injury network
    • supplemental measures for existing topics in the analysis.
  • Staff also included the measures recommended by Environmental Justice Subcommittee:
    • The Healthcare accessible via 30-minute transit trip as one of the transit productivity measures
    • Distribution of investments by Fresno-Clovis metropolitan area and rest of the county as one of the investments distribution measures.

Following the review period by the EJ Subcommittee between November 2024 and January 2025, staff recommends approval for the measure updates.

Action: Staff and the Environmental Justice Subcommittee recommends the Regional Transportation Plan Roundtable approve the measures updates for Environmental Justice Analysis in the 2026 Reginal Transportation Plan.

Summary: Fresno County Rural Transit Agency (FCRTA) General Manager Moses Stites will give an update on FCRTA’s Selma Maintenance Facility and recently completely bus shelter installations in Rural Fresno County.

Action: Information only. Direction may be provided at the discretion of the Roundtable.

Summary: Fresno Council of Governments Executive Director Robert Phipps will inform the Roundtable of recent Measure C Renewal developments, including the upcoming formation of the 2026 Measure C Renewal Committee (MCRC), for which Fresno COG is recruiting membership with an Expression of Interest form. The MCRC will help craft the expenditure plan for Measure C that will go before voters in the November 2026 General Election.

Action: Information only. Direction may be provided at the discretion of the Roundtable.

This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the Roundtable on items within its jurisdiction but not on this agenda.

Note:  Prior to action by the Roundtable on any item on this agenda, the public may comment on that item. Unscheduled comments may be limited to 3 minutes.

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