Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on an Ordinance Amending Fiscal Year 2016-2017 Annual Budget to Provide Additional Funding for the ONE McKinney 2040 Comprehensive Plan Update
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Financially Sound Government
MEETING DATE: May 2, 2017
DEPARTMENT: Development Services - Planning Department
CONTACT: Jennifer Arnold, Planning Manager
Brian Lockley, AICP, CPM, Director of Planning
Trudy Mathis, Director of Finance
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* Approval of the Ordinance.
ITEM SUMMARY:
* This item is to consider a budget amendment for the ONE McKinney 2040 Comprehensive Plan Update in order to carry out additional planning and outreach activities.
* At the February 20, 2017 City Council Work Session, the Council discussed and considered recent regional mobility initiatives and their impacts on the ongoing ONE McKinney 2040 Comprehensive Plan Update. Specifically, discussions about potential Controlled-Access Facilities (sometimes referred to as Limited Access Roadways (LARs)) have been at the forefront of transportation planning over the last several months.
* Given the implications of these discussions on land use and transportation decisions, as well as economic forecasting, Council generally agreed that these regional mobility initiatives should be considered, evaluated and included as part of the ONE McKinney 2040 Comprehensive Plan Update.
* As such, Staff has outlined an approach with the consultant team that allows for additional public outreach activities as well as land use and transportation updates in general alignment with upcoming regional transportation studies. Based on the anticipated timing of regional transportation studies (i.e. TxDOT US 380 Feasibility Study), Staff expects that these additional activities and tasks will be carried out over the next 12 to 18 months.
* In order to carry out these additional activities, Staff is requesting an additional $160,000 in funding for the ONE McKinney 2040 Comprehens...
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