Transcript Document

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What is it?
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Initiated by the Lake County
Transportation Alliance (LCTA)
– a public/private transportation
initiative to improve traffic
countywide
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Who is Route 120 CPC?
Lake County Board
Members:
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Bonnie Thomson Carter
Sandy Cole
Larry Leafblad
Diana O’Kelly
Suzi Schmidt
Mayors/Elected
Officials:
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Staff: Lake County Partners
Fiscal Agent: Lake DOT
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Mayor Bill Gentes,
Round Lake (Chairman)
Mayor Jeffrey Harger,
Libertyville
Mayor Dick Hyde, Waukegan
Mayor Kristina Kovarik,
Gurnee
Mayor Jean McCue, Round
Lake Park
Mayor Ted Mueller, Hainesville
Mayor Tim Perry, Grayslake
Mayor Burnell Russell, Volo
Mayor Sal Saccomanno,
Wauconda
Trustee Ed Sullivan,
Mundelein
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What are the products?
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Recommended alignment
Agreed land use in corridor
Cost estimate and financing
options
Determination of what is
technically feasible and publicly
supported
Data for Phase I Study
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What are the products?
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Determine road character:
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Controlled Access Expressway vs.
Limited Access Boulevard?
At grade with traditional intersections,
roundabouts or continuous flow
intersections vs. grade separated
interchanges?
At grade or above/below grade rail
separations?
Handle traffic flows at 45mph, 55mph or
70 mph?
Access points between major
intersections?
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Where is it?
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Study area:
 ½ mile north/south of existing route
120 centerline – west of Wilson Road
to the McHenry County line and east
of Almond Road to Greenbay Road in
Waukegan
 ½ mile north of existing route 120
centerline and ¾ mile south of
Proposed LCTIP Route 120
Centerline – Almond Road to Wilson
Road
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Vital East-West
Transportation
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Who is involved?
Governance Board
CPC Steering Council
Environmental/
Stormwater Impact
Task Force
Land Use/ED/
Municipal Impact
Task Force
Public Information
Task Force
Technical Task
Force
Staff – Lake County Partners
Fiscal Agent – Lake County DOT
Technical Consultants
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Governance Board
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Policy and decision making body
10 Municipalities and 5 County
Board Members
The County and each community
committed $5,000 per seat on
board; used to leverage Illinois
Tomorrow Planning Grant
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Steering Council
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Purpose:
 Manage feasibility study
 Build consensus for the
recommended alternative and
road characteristics
 Secure an agreement on land
use in the corridor
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Environmental/
Stormwater Task Force
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Purpose
 Analyze environmental
information for inclusion in
feasibility study
 Provide expert environmental
opinion on land use and
transportation recommendations
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Land use/Economic
Development/Municipal
Impact Task Force
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Purpose
 Determine whether planned land uses
for the corridor are consistent with the
planned roadway
 Recommend a “corridor preservation
plan”
 Recommend an implementation
strategy to effect the land use
recommendations for the corridor
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Public Information Task
Force
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Purpose
 Keep public informed about
Route 120 CPC activities
 Secure public input
 Secure stakeholder input
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Technical Task Force
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Purpose
 Determine the technical aspects
of the transportation alternatives
 Cost out the alternatives
 Recommend financing plan
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Why is the Route 120
Corridor important?
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Improve east-west traffic flow
Relieve congestion
Attract business investment and
jobs to where the labor exists
Expand the Lake County economy
Increase and diversify the tax base
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When Will This Happen?
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10 Years in All Reality!
Need to put this effort in motion
now
Need input and consensus
YOU ARE KEY!
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