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Fairfax officials give overview of how county pays for large transportation projects
Summary
County transportation staff told the Board of Supervisors’ Transportation Committee on June 3 that major projects require assembling multiple funding sources — local, regional, state and federal — and outlined which programs the county typically taps and what risks and restrictions each carries.
Fairfax County transportation staff told the Board of Supervisors’ Transportation Committee on June 3 that the county must piece together local, regional, state and federal dollars to pay for large projects such as road widenings and bus rapid transit.
The overview, presented by Greg Stevenson, director of the Fairfax County Department of Transportation, and Noel Dominguez, chief of the department’s coordination and funding division, summarized federal grants (CIG, CMAQ, RSTP, Transportation Alternatives, discretionary programs such as RAISE/INFRA), state programs (SmartScale, revenue sharing, MERIT, TRIP), regional sources (NVTA, NVTC/Commuter Choice) and local tools (NVTA 30% local allocations, the commercial/industrial tax option, general obligation bonds, special tax districts and developer proffers).
Stevenson said the county often must “attach the most restrictive funding to the project” to preserve flexible local dollars for other uses. He illustrated the approach with a $100 million road-widening example…
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