WHEREAS, the Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Organization (L-DC MPO) is designated as the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to carry out the Continuing, Cooperative and Comprehensive planning program, including transportation planning for the Lawrence Douglas County area; and,
WHEREAS, the US Department of Transportation has an adopted national intelligent transportation systems(ITS) architecture which specifies the proper relationships, such as information exchanges, among the components of all ITS projects implemented with federal funds; and
WHEREAS, ITS projects in the Lawrence – Douglas County metropolitan transportation planning area must be consistent with a Regional Architecture in order to have federal funds used for their implementation; and
WHEREAS, the ITS Strategic Deployment Plan and Architecture maintains the MPO’s compliance with current ITS program standards set by the Federal Highway Administration for development of architecture and strategic plans as well as the Federal Transit Administration’s National ITS Architecture Policy on Transit Projects; and
Now, therefore, it be resolved by the City of Lawrence hereby recognizes the ITS Strategic Deployment Plan and Architecture and any subsequent updates as the regional architecture that shall govern all ITS improvements within the Lawrence Douglas County metropolitan transportation planning area.
The Lawrence City Commission hereby approves these actions on this 19th day of May 2015.
APPROVED:
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Jeremy Farmer
Mayor
ATTEST:
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Diane Bucia
Acting City Clerk