Environmental Justice Assessment Process of the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission

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Environmental Justice Assessment Process of the
Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission
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The Purpose Of This Effort

• Assess transportation planning at MORPC
• Process
• Transportation Plan
• Transportation Improvement Program
• This effort commences an ongoing process

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Initial Assessment Process 2000

• Assemble Task Force
• Review Public Involvement Process
• Develop, identify, review and apply measures to
  gauge regional burdens and benefits of
  transportation system investments (TIP T-Plan)
• Identify needs of target populations
• Identify additional work efforts to better
  incorporate Environmental Justice principles into
  planning and project evaluation processes
• Identify potential areas of non-conformance with
  the principles of environmental justice

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Task Force Representation

• MORPCs Committees
• Policy Committee
• Citizen Advisory Committee
• Transportation Advisory Committee
• Columbus Area Transportation Coordination Program
  (CATCP)
• Other neighborhood and organization
  representatives

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MORPCs Public Involvement Process

• Information Dissemination
• Neighborhood Groups
• Employers
• Libraries
• Local Public Agencies
• Special Interest Groups
• Present/Display Info Upon Request

• CAC
• Special Project or Program Meetings
• Media Advisories
• Sunshine Mailings
• MORPC Web Site
• Annual/Biennial Reports

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Types of Measure Data

• Population Group Based
• Numeric measures to compare different population
  groups
• Geographic Area Based
• Numeric measures to compare different geographic
  areas
• Maps
• Visual inspection to draw general conclusions

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Population Group Measures

• Average number of near-by opportunities
• jobs
• shopping
• other opportunities
• Percent of population close to a
• college
• hospital
• major retail destination

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• When compared to the 2030 base, 2030 TPlan
  population groups have access to more jobs and
  the gains appear to be relatively uniform across
  all of the population groups.

• Target populations on average have access to
  more jobs than non-target populations

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Population Group Measures

• Average Travel Time
• All Trips, Work Trips, Shopping Trips, Other Home
  Based Trips
• Average Time to Columbus CBD
• Transit Accessibility to Columbus CBD

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• When compared to the 2030 base, 2030 TPlan
  population groups have shorter travel times and
  the improvements appear to be relatively uniform.

• Target populations on average have shorter travel
  times than non target populations

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Geographic Area Measures

• Percent Vehicle Miles of Travel under congested
  conditions
• Highway Investments
• Displacements

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Geographic Area
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• When compared to the 2030 base, both the target
  and non-target areas experience less congested
  travel and the improvements appear to be
  relatively uniform.

• The target area experiences less congested travel
  than non-target populations.

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Map Assessments

• Travel Time to Closest
• College
• Hospital
• Major Retail Cluster (Northland, Eastland,
  Westland, Tuttle, Sawmill SR 161, Easton,
  Polaris, City Center, Brice south I-70,)
• COTA Service Relative to Target Populations

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Conclusions

• Measures applied so far did not identify
  significant EJ issues
• benefits appear to be proportionally spread
• Need further involvement of target groups

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Environmental Justice Assessment Process

• process will be ongoing (explicitly in Work
  Program)
• review efforts of other agencies
• develop and apply additional assessment measures
  and techniques especially in light of new
  regional model
• consultation with target populations