TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORY AGENCY - PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE - EST 1986

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City Manager 2 March 6, 1985 Alternative Solutions. Alternative solutions benefiting central County have not been included in the funding package. Transit solutions, rideshare, toll roads, or standard arterial construction of these corridors are not recommendations of the County plan. The County of Orange and the orange County Transportation Commission have proposed a financing program for construction of the San Joaquin Hills, Eastern, and.Foothill Corridors. The program envisions the local developers contributing 50% of the cost to build these three freeways. The Transportation Commission has assumed a facilitating role in an effort to secure City participation in the financing of the County facilities. The proposed Corridors will fit into the County's transportation network for one of two reasons.. The first reason is to provide access where access does not exist. All three Corridors offer this opportunity. The second reason is to provide congestion relief for facilities currently in place. Both the San Joaquin Hills and the Foothill Corridors offer relief to the Santa Ana Freeway and the San Diego Freeway through south County. The Foothill Corridor, however, is proposed to deadend in the Eastern Corridor, a perpendicular facility. The Eastern Corridor on the other hand, provides relief for the 55 and 91 Freeways, bringing Riverside and San Bernardino commuters into central orange County, however it deadends into the Santa Ana Freeway (a,perpendicular facility) in central Irvine. The proposed mechanism would cane about from the adoption of three generalized policy statements (Attachment A) which would be followed by adoption of Memorandums of Understanding to participate in the program (Attachments B and C) , which in turn would lead to a Financing Agreement to pass developer.fees through city governments to the County for construction of the Corridors. County staff has developed a "benefit assessment area" for the San Joaquin Hills Corridor and a separate "benefit assessment area" for the combined Eastern and Foothill Corridors. Santa Ana is overlaid with assessments from both areas. Santa Ana developments predominently northeast of Main and Warner would contribute to the Foothill and Eastern facilities, and developments south of Warner would contribute to the San Joaquin Hills Corridor. A map with precise assessment areas is shown as Attachment D. The proposed benefit assessment areas are further subdivided into areas of primary benefit and secondary benefit. Primary benefit accrues to properties immediately accessed by the proposed Corridors, and secondary benefit to those remotely accessed by the Corridors. In Santa Ana's case staff feels that the benefit is at best marginal. Upon questioning County staff, it was determined that their benefit assessment area was developed using the SCAG 1982 growth forecast for the County without discussion with City staffs, and that if 4% of a development's trips would use the Corridor, it was deemed to be in the benefit area.