TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR AGENCY - SAN JOAQUIN CORRIDOR

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have led to the Fee Program defined within this report, and the formation of the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor Agency and the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency to implement such Fee Program and plan, design, finance and construct such corridors. The County and various cities within the Area of Benefit of the San Joaquin Hills and Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridors formed two Joint Powers Agencies known as the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor Agency and the Foothill/Eastem Transportation Corridor Agency. Necessary ordinances and resolutions to effect the Fee Program have been adopted by all parties of the Agency, and such program is now being fully implemented. II. DESCRIPTION OF CORRIDOR A TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR is a high- speed, high volume, access - controlled multimodal facility with a median of sufficient width to be utilized for transit considerations such as fixed rail or high- occupancy vehicles, and facilities necessary for collection of tolls. The corridors will provide for high speed movement of vehicular traffic where projected volumes exceed major arterial highway capacities. These routes will function similar to freeways and expressways and should eventually be incorporated into the State Highway System. They are, therefore, designed to meet minimum State and Federal standards. In addition to the need for major transportation corridors generated by existing development, the relatively rapid growth and planned future development in Orange County also contributes directly to such need. Three such corridors (Foothill, Eastern and San Joaquin Hills) are included on the Master Plan of Arterial Highways (MPAH), and are a component of the Transportation Element of the Orange County General Plan and the Transportation Elements of the General Plans of all city Parties within which such corridors have been planned to be located. Transportation corridors are depicted on the MPAH map as either conceptually proposed or established alignments. These facilities are part of a planned traffic circulation system necessary to support development of the County in accordance with existing General Plan Land Use Elements of the County and City Parties. These facilities will also relieve recurrent congestion on major arterials and freeways in Orange County. The SAN JOAQUIN HILLS TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR is planned as a high- speed, high capacity, access - controlled transportation facility to serve local and regional traffic and transit needs. Its alignment was established in 1979 as part of the MPAH and Transportation Element of the Orange County General Plan. That alignment includes the Corona Del Mar Freeway (Route 73) in the Cities of Costa Mesa, Newport Beach and Irvine and extends southeasterly approximately 15 miles to 223512_2.DOC