MILTON, Ga. — With plans to adopt an updated Comprehensive Transportation Plan in December, the Milton City Council discussed potential shifts in project priorities at its meeting Nov. 19.
The Comprehensive Transportation Plan, drafted in 2009, is a long-range, multimodal transportation plan that assesses the city’s existing and future transportation needs. The goals of the document are to help identify priorities, establish a relationship between local and regional expectations and support other city plans.
The plan received an update in 2016, and now, a second overhaul is underway.
Engineering Project Manager Rob Dell-Ross presented community input Monday evening, which had been shared at an October council work session, as well as an exhaustive project list, price tags and the associated funding sources.
Short-range projects are funded by the projected $36 million in Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax II, or TSPLOST II, passed by voters in 2021.
Projected funding
Projects are broken into funding tiers, Dell-Ross said, based on Fulton County guidelines that advise cities to program 85 percent of projected revenue into Tier 1, 15 percent into Tier 2 and another 15 percent into Tier 3 if extra transportation dollars are available after delivering the entirety of the preexisting projects.
“We had to make some assumptions for our financial framework for our TSPLOST II list,” Dell-Ross said.
He presented more than 20 short-range projects funded by TSPLOST II as well as mid-range and long-range projects that predict funding from future TSPLOST referendums.
Councilman Jan Jacobus suggested prioritizing improvements to Bethany Bend, from Ga. 9 to Morris Road, an $8 million mid-range project set for TSPLOST III. Jacobus and Councilman Rick Mohrig shared the concern of future traffic funneling onto Bethany…
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