Title
Resolution Requesting the Virginia Department of Transportation to Add and Delete Certain Streets to Those Classified as Principal and Minor Arterial Roads and Collector Roads and Local Streets
Purpose
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
Annually a list of new streets which have been constructed within the City is compiled and sent to the Virginia Department of Transportation ("VDOT") for maintenance fund eligibility. Once VDOT accepts those roads into the maintenance system the City receives annual funding in support of those roads. In order for VDOT to accept those streets, City Council must first adopt a resolution to officially submit those new lane miles; as well as to make adjustments and removals as needed for any previously approved streets. Only public roads are included.
Discussion:
The current application includes the addition of a number of new streets in the Orchards at Hampton River subdivision and the portion of Floyd Thompson Drive from Research Drive to the Fed-Ex complex in the Langley Research and Development area, as well as a few deletions related to the same construction.
Impact:
N/A
Recommendation:
Rec
Approve Resolution
Body
WHEREAS, pursuant to Code of Virginia § 33.2-319, the Commissioner of Highways, subject to the approval of the Commonwealth Transportation Board, shall make payments for maintenance, construction, or reconstruction of highways to all eligible cities and towns, subject to certain terms and conditions ("Local Assistance Maintenance Program");
WHEREAS, prior to any such payment, the eligible locality must submit a request to the Virginia Department to Transportation ("VDOT") to add, delete, or convert street miles, and to classify those miles as either (i) principal and minor arterial roads; or (ii) collector roads and local streets; and
WHEREAS, roadways meeting those classifications have been recently built as a result of new construction in the areas of the Hampton River and the Langley Research and Development Park, as more specifically described in the itemized list and map attached to and incorporated in this resolution;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HAMPTON, VIRGINIA that it hereby requests that the attached list and map of roadway miles be added to and deleted from VDOT's Local Assistance Maintenance Program; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council urges the Commonwealth Transportation Board to approve this request as submitted.