Title
Resolution endorsing the Unified Vision Document for the Central Lake Thruway, as adopted by the Governance Board for the Illinois Rte 120 Corridor Planning Council on October 14, 2009, and affirming the intent of Lake County to make relevant future governmental decisions relative to the Illinois 120 Corridor that are consistent with the endorsed Unified Vision Document for the Central Lake Thruway.
Staff Summary
· Central Lake Thruway: Endorse Unified Vision
· The 2005 Lake County Transportation Summit identified IL Rte 120 as the east-west regional highway corridor that should be improved to reduce regional congestion.
· The IL Rte 120 Corridor Planning Council (CPC) was formed in January 2006 by 11 municipalities and Lake County to make policy decisions during a Feasibility Study.
· The LCDOT managed a consultant hired to conduct the technical Feasibility Study with funding from the member entities and IDOT (approximately $1 million total).
· The collaborative-driven process was targeted to balance tradeoffs involved in financing, economic development, transportation congestion relief, environmental and public input goals for the Character of the Road and Placement of the Road.
· The completion of the technical Feasibility Study, which can lead into a federally eligible Phase I Preliminary Engineering study, determined what is locally preferred for the IL 120 Corridor in a Unified Vision of the Central Lake Thruway (a map document).
· The financing of the Central Lake Thruway will be studied further in Phase I (the Phase I Study will in fact reconsider all aspects of the Feasibility Study).
· The Governance Board of the CPC endorsed the Unified Vision and each member is now asking their member entities to adopt a Resolution of Endorsement of the Unified Vision for the Central Lake Thruway.
· This resolution of endorsement of the Unified Vision includes the intent that the County Board, in order to effectuate the Unified Vision, to make future gove...
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