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Transportation:
Corridor Capacity Strategic Planning

Our Position: support
Bill Number: HB 1284
Sponsor:
Legislative Session: 2009

Creates a process whereby the Colorado department of transportation (department), a metropolitan planning organization, and a metropolitan planning organization's member local governments develop a corridor capacity strategic plan in order to preserve the capacity and efficient functioning of the state transportation system in congested areas or areas projected to become congested as a result of future development. Allows a plan to be developed for congested corridors and for those corridors forecasted to be congested in areas covered by a metropolitan planning organization. Specifies the components of the plan, and establishes certain deadlines.

As a condition of issuance of an access permit, where a corridor capacity strategic plan is not adopted or is adopted but not implemented by a local government, allows the department to require improvements to the state transportation system, and allows the department to require the local government or other entity with authority to approve new development to collect on the department's behalf an impact fee to fund expenditures by the department for transportation infrastructure or operational improvements needed to mitigate impacts from the local development to the state transportation system.

Allows the department to review development plans and provide comments regarding their impact on the efficient functioning of the state transportation system.

Requires plans for new development in areas within a congested corridor to be accompanied by a traffic study examining how the proposals would impact the functioning of the state transportation system.

 

Status


02/09/2009 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Energy
03/05/2009 House Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/12/2009 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/20/2009
03/20/2009 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/23/2009
03/23/2009 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/24/2009 House Third Reading Passed
03/24/2009 House Third Reading Laid Over to 03/24/2009
03/30/2009 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation + Appropriations
04/14/2009 Senate Committee on Transportation Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
04/21/2009 Senate Committee on Transportation Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/28/2009 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/30/2009 Senate Second Reading Lost

More information

Please see the bill text for the exact language.

     
     

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