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S ince
1967 the staff of GRPC has been providing general planning support to
the fourteen member jurisdictions through various
projects, not limited to land use, mapping and
comprehensive planning development. Additionally,
GRPC serves as the metropolitan planning organization (MPO)
for the urbanized areas of Gulfport-Biloxi and
Pascagoula-Moss Point. Our transportation
planning process has been certified by the Federal
Highway Administration, which allows the GRPC to manage
the Surface Transportation Program funds that are
allocated to the urban areas.
Upcoming
Meetings:
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GRPC is hosting a grant writing
workshop for Safe Routes to School
on May 20th between the hours of 9:30 to 11:30 at our
annex
Safe Routes to School Proposal
Writing Workshops
The Mississippi Department of
Transportation is offering a two-hour workshop in five
locations to provide participants with the knowledge and
skills necessary to develop a sound Safe Routes to School
proposal. Examples of successful applications and
attachments will be on hand. This workshop is being offered
free of charge. Space is limited, so please register early
by contacting Cookie Leffler at
cleffler@mdot.state.ms.us or 601-359-1454.
ALL ATTENDEES SHOULD BRING A COPY OF
THE GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION. These documents are
available for download at
http://www.gomdot.com/Home/Programs/pdf/SRTS/FundingAvailable.pdf
Hancock County Citizens:
The Last Public
Meeting was held May 3rd to obtain citizen input on Hancock
County's
Comprehensive Plan Draft. The document is a policy
statement to help the Board of Supervisor’s guide growth for
the next 20 to 25 years by establishing the basis for
development regulations and official maps. You can
still participate by making comments on the plan, click the
underlined text above to view the plan then make you
comments by selecting the "mailto:compplan@grpc.com".
Comments;
The deadline to
make comments has been extended
to May 30th You may e-mail comments and suggestions
to
mailto:compplan@grpc.com.
News
and Announcements
The Local Update
of Census Addresses (LUCA) was completed in April, 2008.
Upon request, GRPC assisted nine of the cities and counties
impacted by Hurricane Katrina including Hancock County, Bay
St. Louis, Waveland, Long Beach, Pass Christian, Gautier,
Ocean Springs, and Moss Point in preparing their street
address lists in anticipation of the 2010 census. The new
addresses lists presented to GRPC by the jurisdictions were
compared with the database the Census Bureau sent to the
county and cities. GRPC then added to the census database
those new addresses not on the Census Bureau’s database,
along with their corresponding census tracts and blocks. The
tally of new addresses added by jurisdiction was as follows:
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Hancock
County (Unincorporated) |
1,541 |
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Bay St.
Louis |
195 |
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Waveland |
125 |
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Long
Beach |
547 |
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Pass
Christian |
198 |
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Ocean
Springs |
446 |
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Gautier |
289 |
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Moss
Point |
31 |
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Total number of new addresses added to the
Census Bureau’s address file: |
3,052 |
The Census Bureau’s database
contained some addresses that had been added since Hurricane
Katrina. GRPC added to these and also made corrections in
some cases where the Census Bureau had incomplete
information. These corrections mainly consisted of corrected
street name spellings and corrected street types, such as
roads, avenues, etc. GRPC also was able to provide correct
numberings for some reconstructed apartment projects such as
the Longwood Apartments in Long Beach, whose apartment
numbering system was changed post-storm.
After reviewing the
corrections provided by GRPC the Census Bureau will resubmit
the data bases to them in the fall of 2009. At that time the
jurisdictions have 30 days to make any final corrections
before the address lists are finalized for the 2010 census
taking.
- The Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Transportation
Systems and Infrastructure – Gulf Coast Study, sponsored by
the Department of Transportation and the U.S. Geological Survey,
was published in the Federal Register October 2007.
This Phase I report is posted on the Climate Change Science
Program (CCSP) web at:
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-7/.
Online
Now...
MPO
Planning
The
2030 Long Range Transportation Plan called, (GCATS), has been
adopted by the metropolitan planning organization (MPO)
after several years of public involvement and
input. We are presenting the final plan for the
public to review and to ask questions about the
projects that are contained in the plan. We will
address all comments submitted by the public. What
is important to understand is that;
- The Gulf Coast
urban area must have a long range plan for any
project to be eligible for federal transportation
funding,
- The plan is inclusive of many, many
projects, most likely some of which will not be
constructed due to financial constraints
- The MPO staff (GRPC) immediately start the process of
monitoring population and economic development
within the three counties and the impact on the
transportation system in order to assess the
correctness of the plan.
We will have an interim
update to the plan in the year 2010 and start a new
plan using the 2010 Census in the year 2013, to be
complete in 2015.
The long range plan is
composed of the staged improvement program, the
listing of projects needed to manage the forecasted
travel demand, from which individual projects are
selected by the cities and counties to implement.
Implementation in some
cases includes further study of the project/problem
area in order to determine the best solution; and
in others, implementation is the activation of the
project with a commitment of funds with a project
design and construction schedule. See
our current Transportation improvement program (TIP). The MPO policy
committee is the group of elected officials from the
fourteen jurisdictions within our urban area that
select the projects and must seek the funding to
implement these projects. It will be important at
this time to promote the plan in order to seek
additional federal funds and potentially private
funding sources if the many transportation
improvements are to be implemented. Each year
we publish the list of projects for which the
necessary funds have been obligated to implement the
improvement. (Obligated
Project List)
Additionally several
supplemental components to long range planning
will be presented to the public for their input
prior to the final documentation. These include, as
follows: a transit development plan, an
east-west Harrison County multimodal corridor
conceptual plan, pedestrian/bicycle plan, safety
program planning, and a freight issues report.
T his
website is intended to provide you with information on
the metropolitan planning process, planning products and
basic data sets that have been developed for the region.
We have posted many of our planning documents,
traffic data and our internet mapping application for
your convenience. We encourage you
to return to our site frequently for updates.
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