Purpose Categories Revitalize rural communities Encourage job creation Provide regional connectivity Leverage technology Enhance the quality of life and public safety Protect the environment and natural resources
SCC Draft High-Level Needs • Support anticipated statewide and regional population and economic growth • Improve connectivity through access to a high speed, high capacity transportation corridor for people and commercial goods • Protect, restore, enhance, and connect public and private environmentally sensitive areas, natural resources, and ecosystems • Enhance safety for all transportation users • Enhance emergency management at the local, regional, and state levels • Improve access to ecotourism and recreational assets • Enhance workforce development, access to education, and job creation • Improve connectivity to agricultural businesses, manufacturing, warehousing, freight terminals, and intermodal logistics centers • Expand rural broadband infrastructure and access to broadband service • Preserve and improve the character and quality of communities
SCC Guiding Principle #1 - Consistency with Statewide, Regional, and Local Plans and Visions DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS PURPOSE HIGH-LEVEL GUIDING For Project Development NEEDS PRINCIPLE and Beyond Consider goals, objectives, policies, and resources identified in Ensure planning and local government development of the comprehensive plans, metropolitan long-range corridor is consistent transportation plans, with local, regional, All Purposes All Needs strategic regional policy and state plans and plans, and adopted visions to the regional and community maximum extent visions; place emphasis on future land use maps possible and look to these plans for consistency and language
SCC Guiding Principle #2 - Maximizing Use of Existing Facilities DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS PURPOSE HIGH-LEVEL GUIDING For Project Development NEEDS PRINCIPLE and Beyond Evaluate potential statewide and interregional corridor improvements in this priority Evaluate order: opportunities for co- 1) Make safety and operational improvements to existing location within or transportation corridors adjacent to existing 2) Add capacity to existing transportation facilities disturbed right-of- All Purposes All Needs including co-location of facilities way, including their within existing disturbed right- impact on of-way to accommodate additional modes, uses, and surrounding natural functions resources, land uses 3) Where necessary to address statewide and interregional and communities mobility or connectivity needs, develop new transportation facilities
SCC Guiding Principle #3 - Technology DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS PURPOSE HIGH-LEVEL GUIDING For Project Development NEEDS PRINCIPLE and Beyond Leverage and Leverage existing prepare for emerging All Purposes All Needs technology to help technologies to meet minimize impacts all needs
SCC Guiding Principle #4 - Resilience (climate/ weather, health, and economic shifts) DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS PURPOSE HIGH-LEVEL GUIDING For Project Development NEEDS PRINCIPLE and Beyond Ensure that any new Plan and develop transportation corridors that infrastructure considers extreme consider vulnerability weather events in to risks such as All Purposes All Needs addition to climate, inland flooding and social, and economic changing changes and can coastlines/sea level adapt to and mitigate rise risks
SCC Guiding Principle #5 - Transportation Modes DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS PURPOSE HIGH-LEVEL GUIDING For Project Development NEEDS PRINCIPLE and Beyond Consult with local communities, Plan, design, adopted plans, and construct and the public on needs operate a corridor All Purposes All Needs and preferences for that accommodates multimodal forms of multiple modes of transportation to be transportation included with the corridor
SCC Guiding Principle #6 - Community Identity and Character DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS PURPOSE HIGH-LEVEL GUIDING For Project Development NEEDS PRINCIPLE and Beyond Work with communities on Seek opportunities preferences and Enhance quality of to maintain and ensure local input life and public safety enhance the and feedback is Preserve and character and quality improve the incorporated into of life in corridor planning, character and quality Protect the communities, and of communities interchange environment and ensure the corridor locations, additional natural resources provides for their infrastructure needs, future vitality and project development
SCC Guiding Principle #7 - Historic and Cultural Resources DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS PURPOSE HIGH-LEVEL GUIDING For Project Development NEEDS PRINCIPLE and Beyond Prioritize avoiding Work with impacts to historic Preserve and communities to and cultural Protect the improve the identify needs for resources; where environment and character and quality enhancement or avoidance is not natural resources of existing protection of historic feasible, minimize communities and cultural and mitigate impacts resources to them
SCC Guiding Principle #8 - Economic Development DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS PURPOSE HIGH-LEVEL GUIDING For Project Development NEEDS PRINCIPLE and Beyond Revitalize rural Maximize communities Work with opportunities to enhance local communities on Enhance workforce community and preferences and Encourage job development, economic consistency with creation access to education, development with an economic and job creation emphasis on rural development plans areas and visions Enhance quality of life and public safety
SCC Guiding Principle #9 - Economic Development DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS PURPOSE HIGH-LEVEL GUIDING For Project Development NEEDS PRINCIPLE and Beyond Conduct early Revitalize rural outreach to communities communities and the Avoid and minimize public and private negative economic sectors to fully Enhance workforce impacts to individual Encourage job development, understand communities, creation economic access to education, businesses, and and job creation development needs resources including job Enhance quality of training, education, life and public safety and workforce development
SCC Guiding Principle #10 - Conservation Lands DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS PURPOSE HIGH-LEVEL GUIDING For Project Development NEEDS PRINCIPLE and Beyond Protect, restore, Seek opportunities enhance, and to protect, restore, Continue to identify connect public and and enhance the Protect the and prioritize private integrity and environment and conservation lands environmentally connectivity of natural resources for enhancement or sensitive areas, existing and planned avoidance natural resources, regionally significant and ecosystems conservation lands
SCC Guiding Principle #11 - Conservation Lands DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS PURPOSE HIGH-LEVEL GUIDING For Project Development NEEDS PRINCIPLE and Beyond Work with private and public Protect, restore, Prioritize avoiding conservation enhance, and impacts to identified organizations to connect public and conservation Protect the private resources; where develop a land environment and environmentally avoidance is not protection program natural resources sensitive areas, feasible, minimize for protection and natural resources, and mitigate impacts acquisition of and ecosystems to them identified conservation lands
SCC Guiding Principle #12 – Wildlife Habitats DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS PURPOSE HIGH-LEVEL GUIDING For Project Development NEEDS PRINCIPLE and Beyond Seek opportunities Protect, restore, to protect, restore, enhance, and Continue to identify and enhance the connect public and Protect the and prioritize wildlife integrity and private environment and connectivity of areas for environmentally natural resources regionally significant enhancement or sensitive areas, wildlife and native avoidance natural resources, plant habitats and and ecosystems corridors
SCC Guiding Principle #13 – Wildlife Habitats DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS PURPOSE HIGH-LEVEL GUIDING For Project Development NEEDS PRINCIPLE and Beyond Prioritize avoiding impacts to wildlife Ensure corridor Protect, restore, and native plant minimizes impacts to enhance, and habitats, with connect public and emphasis on wildlife corridors and Protect the private threatened and bridges areas environment and environmentally endangered species; identified for natural resources sensitive areas, where avoidance is protection if natural resources, not feasible, avoidance is not and ecosystems minimize and feasible mitigate impacts to these habitats
SCC Guiding Principle #14 – Water Resources DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT INSTRUCTIONS PURPOSE HIGH-LEVEL GUIDING For Project Development NEEDS PRINCIPLE and Beyond Work with local jurisdictions to Protect, restore, ensure best enhance, and Seek opportunities management connect public and to protect, restore, Protect the practices (BMPs) are private and enhance the environment and utilized and that environmentally integrity of regionally natural resources water quality within sensitive areas, significant water the corridor is natural resources, resources maintained, and ecosystems restored, and enhanced
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