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Central Yavapai MPO urges regional champions as Move 2050, Highway 69 study and transit expansion advance
Summary
Central Yavapai Metropolitan Planning Organization presented an annual update to the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors, highlighting a boundary expansion, completed safety planning that leveraged federal funds, the Move 2050 regional transportation plan, the Yaviline microtransit pilot and a $147 million recommendation to upgrade Highway 69.
Vinny Gallegos, executive director of the Central Yavapai Metropolitan Planning Organization, told the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors on June 4 that the MPO has expanded its planning boundary to cover the greater Yavapai region and is asking local elected officials to act as project champions to help secure large funding awards.
The update explained why the MPO’s new Move 2050 long-range transportation plan matters to the county: it guides project selection, multimodal priorities and grant applications for the next 20–25 years.
“The thing that we’re gonna focus on today is how we work together as a region, and we exercise that leadership to plan our transportation system,” Gallegos said. “If you include Western Yavapai, we have a population of around a 175,000 folks.”
The MPO said its Executive Board voted to expand the boundary from roughly 400 square miles to about 6,000…
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