File #: 2023-0019   
Type: Motion / Motion Response Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 1/12/2023 In control: Planning and Programming Committee
On agenda: 6/14/2023 Final action:
Title: RECEIVE AND FILE report on the Long Beach-East LA Corridor Task Force.
Sponsors: Program Management (Department), Maria Luk
Indexes: Air quality, California Environmental Quality Act, California State Transportation Agency, California Transportation Commission, Council Of Governments, Environmental Impact Report, Environmental impact statements, Environmental justice, Equity Focus Communities, Fernando Dutra, Grant Aid, Hilda Solis, Holly J. Mitchell, I-710, Janice Hahn, Long Beach, Long Beach-East LA Corridor, Long Beach-East LA Corridor Mobility Investment Plan, Maps, Measure M, Measure R, Metro Equity Platform, Motion / Motion Response, Multimodal, National Environmental Policy Act Of 1969, Notice Of Determination, Outreach, Plan, Pollution, Public health, Quantitative analysis, Race, Record Of Decision, Slide, Strategic planning, Surveys, Tour buses, Translations
Attachments: 1. Attachment A - September 2022 Hahn Solis Dutra Motion, 2. Attachment B - May 2021 Motions 47 and 48, 3. Attachment C - May 2022 Hahn Solis Mitchell Dutra Motion, 4. Attachment D - LB-ELA Corridor Task Force Slide Deck, 5. Attachment E - Initial List of Projects and Programs, 6. Attachment F - Categories and Subcategories of Projects and Programs, 7. Attachment G - Final Evaluation Criteria, 8. Attachment H - Letter from CEHAJ re Health Criteria, 9. Attachment I - Summary of Health Considerations for Evaluative Criteria, 10. Attachment K - April 2023 I-710 Tour Information and Roster, 11. Attachment J – Grant Awards and Activities for LB-ELA Corridor Projects, 12. Presentation
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PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
JUNE 14, 2023

Subject
SUBJECT: UPDATE ON THE LONG BEACH-EAST LA CORRIDOR TASK FORCE

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE report on the Long Beach-East LA Corridor Task Force.

Issue
ISSUE

At its meeting on September 22, 2022, the Board approved the Vision, Guiding Principles, Goals, Pre-Investment Plan Opportunity candidate grant projects, and the new name for the Task Force (File #2022-0330). The Board also approved a motion by Directors Hahn, Solis, and Dutra (Attachment A) to provide funding to support grant applications for the Pre-Investment Plan Opportunity projects. This Receive and File report provides an update to the Board on the progress made by the Long Beach-East LA (LB-ELA) Task Force since the September 2022 meeting, including the approval of the Evaluation Framework and the result of various grant applications for corridor projects.

Background
BACKGROUND

In response to communication from the US Environmental Protection Agency and then- Caltrans Director (and current California State Transportation Agency [CalSTA] Secretary) Toks Omishakin that the I-710 South Corridor Project EIR/EIS would not have a path forward to securing a Record of Decision for Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA) 5C, the Board took a series of actions (Attachment B) in May 2021 to set an alternate path forward for staff to develop a new approach to developing an investment plan for the corridor.

To advance Board direction, Metro partnered with Caltrans District 7 to develop what was initially known as the 710 Task Force, comprising a wide range of stakeholders from the community to the regional level that would represent the important partners to help Metro shape, fund, and implement a new, multimodal, community-focused, and regionally significant investment plan for the I-710 South Corridor. This investment plan will focus on funding projects in the near term th...

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