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Albemarle supervisors adopt 2026 transportation priorities list to guide near‑term funding applications
Summary
Staff presented an updated ranking of 169 transportation projects with new staging and transparency improvements; the board approved the draft 2026 priority list (stages 1–3) and asked staff to return with worksheets and consider keeping the rankings as a living document.
Albemarle County’s Board of Supervisors voted to adopt staff’s draft 2026 transportation project priority list, a scored ranking of 169 projects intended to guide grant applications and near‑term project work.
Jessica Dimock, principal transportation planner, told the board the update introduces project stages (idea, evaluation, ready, funded) so the county can focus near‑term funding work on stage‑2 and stage‑3 projects. She said the scoring uses six equally weighted factors — land use, safety, congestion, economic development, equity, and multimodal access — with a maximum theoretical score of 60. Top projects include the 5th Street interchange (vehicle safety/congestion) and the Moores Creek greenway segment (bicycle/pedestrian).
Board members discussed how to use the list, whether to weight factors differently, and the merit of treating the priority list as an evergreen, updateable tool rather than a static record for three years. Several supervisors asked staff to provide the underlying worksheets and consider methods to surface projects that have additional funding sources or are more ready to advance. Staff said stage‑3 projects will have cost estimates; stage‑2 projects generally do not.
The board adopted the rankings (Attachment F) and encouraged staff to present options for more frequent updates and more transparent worksheets for supervisor review prior to funding decisions.
