Tacoma Dome Link Extension Port of Tacoma Commission | 3.21.19 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Item No. 4A Date of Meeting: March 21, 2019 Tacoma Dome Link Extension Port of Tacoma Commission | 3.21.19

Agenda Project overview Technical evaluation results Next steps & scoping information 2

Tacoma Dome Link Extension (TDLE) Federal Way Transit Center to Tacoma Dome • Length: 9.7 miles • Stations: 4 (2 parking garages) • Scheduled opening in 2030 Operations and Maintenance Facility – South • Scheduled opening in 2026 • South King County

TDLE alternatives development process 4

TDLE project timeline PLANNING DESIGN CONSTRUCTION START OF SERVICE 2018–2022 2022–2025 2025–2030 2016 2030 Final route design Groundbreaking Alternatives development Final station designs Construction updates • Investigation of and mitigation alternatives Procure and commission station Safety education • Board identifies and public art Preferred Alternative Testing and pre-operations Obtain land use and Environmental review development agreements • Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) Begin property acquisition • Final EIS Board selects project to be built Federal agency issues Record of Decision (ROD) PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT

Alternatives development process PLANNING 2018–2022 DESIGN CONSTRUCTION 2016 2025–2030 Alternatives development (2018-2019) • Investigation of alternatives • Board identifies Preferred Alternative Environmental review (2019-2022) • Draft EIS • Final EIS Board selects project to be built Federal agency issues Record of Decision (ROD ) PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT Preferred Alternative and other EIS alternatives Summer 2019

TDLE Level 2 evaluation results 7

Level 2 alternatives 8

Final evaluation criteria categories Effective transportation solutions Land use and economic development and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Preserve the environment Equitable mobility Financially sustainable and constructible 9 9

Level 2 alternatives: East Tacoma 10

East Tacoma: Alternatives with more potential (ET 3A) Closest to destinations south of I-5 (ET 3A) connects with “more potential” Tacoma Dome alternatives 11

East Tacoma: Alternatives with greater challenges Farthest from Higher potential for destinations freight impacts south of I-5 (ET 3B & 5) Connects to more challenging station in Tacoma Dome area 12

Tacoma Dome & East Tacoma station areas

Fife: Level 2 alternatives 14

Fife: Alternatives with more potential Location in planned City Center, greater potential development opportunity Fewer property Impacts (3A) 15

Fife: Alternatives with greater challenges Higher impacts to Higher potential of major economic residential impacts activity generators Higher potential impacts to freight movement 16

TDLE more potential alternatives, end-to-end Based on preliminary technical analysis 17

EIS Scoping & Next Steps 18

What is EIS scoping for TDLE? • Start of federal environmental review process • 30-day public comment period, April 1-May 1 (tentative) • Seeking public feedback on scope of EIS • Preferred alternative and other alternatives for further study • Topics to study (e.g. economics, displacements, ecosystems) • Purpose and need • Informs Board decision on what to study in EIS 19

Next steps for TDLE* Preliminary schedule to reach a preferred alternative March April May-June (tentative) (tentative) Briefings on Level 2 evaluation results to: EIS scoping period, Building consensus around • To Cities & Tribal staff including: preferred alternative and other & elected officials • Online and in-person options, including: • ELG and SG open houses • Scoping summary report meetings • Formal comments • SG feedback encouraged • City/Tribal Councils’ post- scoping guidance to ELG • ELG recommendation to ST Board *dates are subject to change 20

Next steps* EIS Scoping Next ELG ST Board identifies sites for meetings environmental review • OMF South: (tentative) • OMF South : May 2019 Feb. 19 – April 1 • May 31 ST Board identifies preferred • TDLE: • June 14 April 1 – May 1 alternative and other (tentative) alternatives for EIS • TDLE: July 2019 *dates are subject to change 21

Questions? soundtransit.org/ tdlink 22