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MARC Home > Transportation Department > Regional Initiatives > Linking Environmental & Transportation Planning
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Mitigation Strategy Workshops (2011) |
| RESOURCES |
Action Plan to Link Environmental & Transportation Planning in Kansas City Region (pdf) Project Summary and Recommendations (pdf)
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Long-Range Transportation Plan |
Green Region Data Map Linking Environmental & Transportation Planning
MARC is working to better incorporate conservation into transportation planning in the Kansas City region. SAFETEA-LU, the federal transportation legislation, emphasizes strengthening links between the planning and environmental review process in developing transportation plans and studies.
About the Eco-Logical Grant
In early 2008, MARC was awarded funding from the Federal Highway Administration’s Eco-Logical grant program, which supports making infrastructure more sensitive to wildlife and ecosystems through greater interagency cooperation and conservation.
Creating an Action Plan
With this grant, MARC worked with Shockey Consulting Services, LLC; Parsons Brinckerhoff; Environment International, Ltd.; and an advisory group to conduct a series of workshops to help create the Linking Environmental & Transportation Planning Action Plan, and develop a project summary and best practices guide. This work led to a clear understanding of what needs to be done to better integrate transportation and environmental planning in the Kansas City region.
Impacts on Transportation Planning
This effort is reflected in the region’s new long-range transportation plan, Transportation Outlook 2040, approved in June 2010. For the first time, this 30-year plan includes policy direction to implement climate protection, energy and natural resource conservation measures as a part of future transportation investments. Project selection criteria for MARC’s planning and programming processes were also revised to include environmental considerations.
Developing a Regional Mitigation Strategy
One of the key recommendations of the Linking Environmental and Transportation Planning Action Plan is to create a regional mitigation strategy. To build upon recent successes and momentum, MARC launched a series of workshops in 2011 titled "Above and Beyond Mitigation: Advancing the Eco-Logical Action Plan." The series resulted in framework criteria for a model environmental integration and mitigation process for Greater Kansas City. The Linking Advisory Group continues to further develop the criteria and policy recommendations that came out of this workshop series.
Advisory Group
This committee meets quarterly on the first Monday of every third month at 1:30 p.m. Meetings are generally held in the MARC offices, 600 Broadway, Suite 200, Kansas City, Mo. All meetings are listed on the MARC calendar and are open to the public.
NEXT MEETINGS:
December 5, 2011 – meeting canceled
Meeting Archives
The archives are PDF files.
- June 6, 2011 - agenda only
- December 6, 2010 - agenda only
- September 13, 2010 - agenda only
- June 7, 2010 - agenda only
- December 7, 2009
- September 28, 2009
- June 10, 2009
- March 9, 2009
- January 15, 2009
- November 24, 2008
- Planning & NEPA Presentation - MoDOT
- August 1, 2008
- June 4, 2008
- April 21, 2008