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New City Planners in the Region

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Be sure to congratulate Rodney Rhodes, Staunton’s new Senior Planner, and Luke Juday, Waynesboro’s new Director of Planning on their new positions! Both Rhodes and Juday will serve on the Staunton Augusta Waynesboro MPO Technical Advisory Committee.

 

 

VTrans Multimodal Transportation Plan Open House – February 15, 2017, 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

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VTrans is the Commonwealth’s long-range transportation plan. The Virginia Multimodal Transportation Plan (VMTP) is the short-range component of the plan and details transportation needs and recommendations through 2025.  Virginia is developing statewide multimodal transportation recommendations and your input is needed!

The Virginia Office of Intermodal Planning and Investment (OIPI), alongside local stakeholders, has developed draft recommendations for the VTrans Multimodal Transportation Plan (VMTP).  The VMTP2025 Needs for Corridors of Statewide Significance (CoSS), Regional Networks, and Urban Development Areas (UDAs) were developed in 2015.  These 2025 Needs were consolidated across different travel markets and divided into three tiers.  The 2025 draft project recommendations for the Tier 1 Needs have been developed.  These draft recommendations will be available for review and discussion at an Open House on Wednesday, February 15th, from 4:00-6:00 p.m., at the Regional Transit Facility, 51 Ivy Ridge Lane, Fishersville, Virginia.

This Open House will be an important opportunity to share your input on these strategic investment recommendations.

If you have any questions, please contact Shana Johnson, sjohnson@foursquareitp.com, or to learn more about VTrans, please see www.vtrans2040.com.

 

DHCD Offers How-to-Apply Workshops During January

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Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) will soon be accepting applications for the Building Collaborative Communities (BCC), Industrial Revitalization Fund (IRF), Building Entrepreneurial Economies (BEE), Community Business Launch (CBL) and Virginia Individual Development Account (VIDA) programs for fiscal year 2017-2018.
DHCD will be conducting How-to-Apply Workshops for these programs throughout the state during the month of January. During these sessions, DHCD staff will offer a review of each program’s design, funding availability, and application process. Click here for more information.

Consultants Selected for On-Call

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The CSPDC is pleased to announce the selection of six firms for its On-Call Consultant Program.  They are:
  • A. Morton Thomas & Associates (AMT)
  • Draper Aden Associates
  • Hurt & Proffitt
  • Kimley-Horn
  • Timmons Group
  • Vanasse Hangen Brustlin (VHB)
The On-Call Consultant Program (OCP) was established by the CSPDC to facilitate quick delivery of professional and/or nonprofessional services in the areas of transportation, civil engineering, environmental, and general planning services to its member jurisdictions and other eligible entities. For more information about the OCP and procedures for accessing the services of these consultants, please contact the CSPDC.

I-64 SPaCE Working Group Meeting Scheduled

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space signsThe CSPDC is hosting the second of six Working Group Meetings for the I-64 Shenandoah Piedmont Area Collaborative Effort (SPaCE) on January 31, 2017 at the Virginia Regional Transit facilities in Fishersville.  The discussion topic for this meeting is Public Safety.
In addition to addressing corridor safety issues, the study team will provide the working group with a project update that includes a summary of the first Working Group Meeting held in November of 2016, feedback received from the December Open House, and information on the Federal Highway Administration PlanWorks process.  Presentations will be made by Virginia State Police, VDOT Traffic Operations, Waynesboro EMS, and CSPDC Emergency Management Planners.
The Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission and the CSPDC are undertaking this transportation study to examine transportation issues in the I-64 Corridor from Charlottesville to Staunton. The project will examine traffic congestion, transit, economic development, environment and public safety issues.
For more information, please visit the study website.