TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORY AGENCY - PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE - EST 1986

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City Manager 3 March 6, 1982 Secondly, the County included those areas of likely growth (development areas) and excluded those areas which were not likely to grow (existing residential or developed comnercial /industrial) for obvious reasons. In sane cases, the assessment area has been slightly expanded for ease of administration. From this primary and secondary benefit assessment area the County has developed a fee program to generate 508 of the price of the Corridors. This information is included as Attachment E, with a number of variations as provided by County staff. In Santa Ana's case, our developers would pay a secondary assessment of approximately $50 per trip end. Primary assessments for land owners in the undeveloped south County areas served by the Corridors will pay approximately $90 per trip end. Staff feels that a more equitable assessment should be developed relating to the percentage use of the Corridors by developments. The primary areas of benefit virtually cannot develop without these Corridors or some form of arterial street system. All proposed developments in Santa Ana could proceed, however, without any of the proposed Corridors. We would recommend a strategy whereby if 48 of a Santa Ana development's trips use the San Joaquin Hills Corridor, our developer paid a 48 share of a fee program; and if 808 or 908 of a south County development use the Corridor it would contribute 808 to 908 share to the - fee program. From a County -wide, system -wide perspective, there are several deficiencies in this financing proposal. The Foothill Corridor, after traveling in a northwesterly direction for 35 miles, deadends in a northeast - southwest corridor without proper connection to the Garden Grove or Santa Ana Freeways. This missing link has cane to be known as "The Bottleneck ", and -it will be the subject of a "Bottleneck Analysis" to be performed this year by the Transportation Commission. A solution for the bottleneck is not included in this financing program. Also, the San Joaquin Hills Corridor will connect directly into the Corona del Mar Freeway, which will then require additional capacity at the transition to the San Diego Freeway. Financing for this capacity improvement is not included in the corridor fee program. Similarly, the Eastern Corridor deadends at the Santa Ana Freeway, (or dumps into Culver Drive), and funding has not been identified to upgrade Culver Drive to freeway capacity. Setting aside for the moment these three Corridors, staff has investigated the overall funding capability for transportation solutions in the County. Less than one year ago, transportation professionals and elected officials alike agreed to a balanced transportation plan on a County -wide scale. It included freeway improvements, transit improvements, arterial improvements, and the three proposed Corridors. We are now being offered a plan which commits scarce resources to one portion of the County -wide plan.