Meeting_Body
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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