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TAC forwards Park & Ride plan to CCRPC Board; hears MRGP, MTP and VPSP2 updates
Summary
The TAC voted unanimously to recommend the Chittenden County Park & Ride Plan to the CCRPC Board for adoption, recommended staff comments on the VPSP2 bridge list be forwarded to the Board for submission to VTrans, and received updates on MRGP changes and the 2023 Metropolitan Transportation Plan schedule.
At its Oct. 4, 2022 virtual meeting the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission’s Transportation Advisory Committee approved several routine motions and recommended regional planning actions to the CCRPC Board.
Bruce Hoar moved that the TAC approve the Chittenden County Park & Ride Plan and send it to the CCRPC Board for adoption; Barbara Elliott seconded and the motion passed unanimously. The plan narrows an earlier prioritized list to roughly 10 candidate facilities and adds one site in Essex near the VT 117/289 interchange that the Board requested.
On the Vermont Project Selection and Prioritization Project (VPSP2), Christine Forde (CCRPC) reported that VTrans selected one bridge and declined others for now. CCRPC staff prepared comments and asked TAC members for additional input; Barbara Elliott moved that staff‑prepared comments with member edits be forwarded to the Board for review and submission to VTrans, seconded by Sandy Thibault; the motion passed unanimously.
Staff provided a Municipal Roads General Permit (MRGP) update. Chris Dubin (CCRPC) said the MRGP reissuance in January 2023 changes the implementation requirement from 15% over multiple years to 7.5% annually and introduces a slope multiplier into scoring; CCRPC plans a second round of road erosion inventories starting summer 2023 on a 2–3 year schedule. TAC members discussed whether to provide individual comments or defer as a group; members agreed to coordinate with the Clean Water Advisory Committee for comment drafting.
Eleni Churchill (CCRPC) briefed the group on the 2023 Metropolitan Transportation Plan schedule: staff will circulate updated sections in late 2022, present a full draft to TAC in January, ask the Board to warn a public hearing in spring, and aim for adoption in June 2023. Members raised equity review by a newly forming Equity Advisory Committee, which will provide input between January and March.
Routine business included approval of the consent agenda and prior meeting minutes, notices about upcoming grant deadlines (including VTrans municipal grants with an Oct. 7 application deadline), the REV Conference EV Expo on Oct. 27–28, and potential Diesel Emissions Reduction Act funding. The next TAC meeting is scheduled for Nov. 1, 2022; the meeting adjourned at 10:09 a.m.
Actions recorded in the minutes reflect unanimous committee votes where noted; individual member roll‑call tallies were not provided in the minutes.