Resolution No. 3949RESOLUTION NO. 3949
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS ENDORSING
THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR ORANGE COUNTY MEASURE M FUNDING
WHEREAS, the City of Cypress desires to maintain and improve
the streets and roads within its jurisdiction, and
WHEREAS, the City supports regional coordination of
transportation improvements, and
WHEREAS, the City desires to use funds collected from the
Revised Orange County Traffic Improvement and Growth Management
Ordinance for transportation maintenance and improvement
projects and
WHEREAS, the Revised Orange County Traffic Improvement and
Growth Management Ordinance states that within six months after
approval of the Retail Tax by the electors the Orange County
Local Transportation Authority (OCLTA) through a cooperative
process involving the County and all of the cities within the
County shall adopt a definition of and a process for
determining consistency of each jurisdiction s Traffic
Circulation Plan with the Master Plan of Arterial Highways
(MPAH) and
WHEREAS, representatives from the OCLTA, City Engineers
Association, City Managers Association and the County of Orange
have developed a definition of and process for determining
consistency of each jurisdiction s Traffic Circulation Element
with the MPAH (Attachment A) which was endorsed by a unanimous
vote of the Orange County Division of the League of California
Cities
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the
City of Cypress hereby endorses the Regional Funding Program
Consistency and Eligibility Criteria as included in Attachment A
as the definition of and process for determining consistency of
the City of Cypress Traffic Circulation Plan with the MPAH.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Cypress at a regular meeting held on the 24th day of June 1991
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MAYOR OF THE
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CITY CA. R OF TI CIT% OF CYPRESS
ITY OF CYPRESS
I DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk of the City of Cypress DO
HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted at
a regular meeting of the said City Council held on the 24th day
of June 1991 by the following roll call vote
AYES 5 COUNCIL MEMBERS. Age, Kerry Nicholson, Partin and
NOES 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS None Bowman
ABSENT 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS None
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REGIONAL FUNDING PROGRAM CONSISTENCY AND ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
CONSISTENCY DEFINITION
Consistency with the Master Plan of Arterial Highways (MPAH) is the primary
criterion for determining city and county commitment to maintaining the integrity
of the regional transportation system. For a city circulation element to be
consistent with the MPAH, for purposes of regional funding program eligibility
it shall have an equivalent planned traffic -carrying capacity for all MPAII links
within the city s jurisdiction.
"Planned capacity" shall be measured by the number of through lanes on each
arterial highway as shown on the local circulation element. Cities shall not
be inconsistent as a result of existing capacity limitations on arterials which
are not yet constructed to the circulation element designation. However any
city which unilaterally reduces the number of through lanes of an MPAH arterial
highway on its circulation element to less than shown on the MPAH without County
approval shall be inconsistent with the MPAH on the date city council action is
taken and is ineligible for regional funding until consistency is re-established.
PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY
Local Agency Responsibility
Eligibility requirements shall be verified annually as follows:
1 =or Measure M "Streets and Roads Maintenance and Road Improvements ($450
million turnback ) funds cities shall adopt a General Plan Circulation
Element which does not preclude implementation of the MPAH and shall take no
action to preclude implementation of the MPAH.
2 For all competitive regional funding programs such as the Arterial Highway
Financing Program (AHFP) Orange County Unified Transportation Trust Fund
(OCUTT) Combined Road Fund (CRP) and Measure M "Regional Street and Road
Projects 'MPAH Improvements and "Growth Management Area Improvements"
cities shall adopt
a a General Plan Circulation Element which is consistent with the MPAH and
b a City Council resolution attesting that no unilateral reduction in lanes
has been made on any MPAH arterials
Annual Review Process
Each year County shall determine if city circulation elements provide equal
numbers of through lanes for each highway shown on the MPAH County shall also
ensure that local agencies have not unilaterally reduced the number of lanes on
any ex_sting arterial highway (effective April 1 1991)
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Approval Process
Upon completion of the review a joint committee of city and county
representatives will make recommendations for eligibility to the Orange County
Transportation Authority for Measure M, CRP and OCUTT programs and to the County
Board of Supervisors for Arterial Highway Financing Program. These
recommendations shall be reviewed and formally approved by OCTA and the Board.
RE-ESTABLISHING PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY
Once a city has been determined to be ineligible for regional funds it may seek
to re-establish eligibility by requesting a cooperative study be undertaken with
County 'rhe study will be designed to 1) ascertain the regional transportation
system need, 2) make provisions to meet those needs in the city General Plan and
3)re establish consistency with rho MFAH Any changes to the city General Plan
or the MPAH shall be mutually acceptable to the city and the county Until such
a study has been completed, the City shell be ineligible to receive applicable
funds
MUTUAL CHANGES TO CIRCULATION ELEMENT AND MPAH
A city and the County may mutually revise their respective circulation elements
through the cooperative process outlined above Cities shall continue to be
eligible to receive funds while the cooperative study process is underway