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January 2025 OUTBOARD

Orange County · Orange Unified Transportation Board
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Regular meeting Roads and transportationFees and utility ratesSubdivision and site plans

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What was decided

  1. Approved 4Minutes - November 18, 2024 Approved unanimously
  2. Approved 5.a2024 Annual Report and 2025 Work Plan Approved unanimously

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What's on this agenda

The Orange Unified Transportation Board adopted its 2024 annual report and 2025 work plan on 21 January 2025, and discussed how a multimodal transportation assessment of development applications might be paid for.

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Meeting recap

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Members added the extensive public engagement on recently adopted plans as an accomplishment, and finding ways to involve more people as a new objective. Both went into the report and the work plan, which passed unanimously.

On the multimodal assessment, staff presented research on how other counties do it. The development advisory committee that would carry it meets once or twice a month and covers projects from small to large. Revenue would depend on a fee structure still under evaluation; members discussed setting it against an hourly rate and agreed it should not be set too low. Staff said the development ordinance is the framework for implementing it and will need a county-controlled update, and that best practice favours pooling the money for use across the county, rather than only where it was collected, or using it as local match for larger capital projects and grants.

How the votes went

Two unanimous votes: the November minutes with a name correction, and the 2024 annual report and 2025 work plan.

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Who spoke

No members of the public spoke.

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Agenda items (4)

Procedural · 1Minutes approval · 1Staff or committee report · 1Discussion item · 1
  1. 3 Public Comments
    Procedural
    None
  2. 4 Minutes - November 18, 2024
    Minutes approval
    Approved unanimously
  3. 5.a 2024 Annual Report and 2025 Work Plan
    Staff or committee report Roads and transportation
    Members added public engagement on recently adopted plans as an accomplishment and broader involvement as a new objective.
    Approved unanimously
  4. 5.b Multimodal Assessment - Best Practice
    Discussion item Fees and utility ratesRoads and transportationSubdivision and site plans
    Staff presented research on how other counties assess the traffic, pedestrian and cycling effects of development applications and charge for it. Members agreed the fee should not be set too low. Best practice favours pooling the money for county-wide use or as local match for capital projects and grants.

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