Item 1: TransPlan and Metro Plan Amendments

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recommended 2024 planning period be adjusted to reflect the newly adopted population numbers; and WHEREAS, on June 17, 2010, the City Council conducted a public hearing on these amendments, and is now ready to take action based upon the above recommendations and the evidence and testimony already in the record as well as the evidence and testimony presented at the public hearings held on adopting revisions to TransPlan and to the Metro Plan; and WHEREAS, substantial evidence exists within the record that the proposal meets the requirements of Chapter 5 of the Springfield Development Code and the requirements of applicable state and local law as described in the findings adopted in support of this Ordinance; and WHEREAS, amendments of the project lists in TransPlan require simultaneous amendment of the same project lists in the Metro Plan as described by Policy F.9, Chapter III, of the Metro Plan; and NOW, THEREFORE, the Common Council of the City of Springfield does ordain as follows: Section 1. TransPlan, adopted by Ordinance No. 5328, enacted on May 5, 1986, which was subsequently amended by Ordinance No. 5470, enacted on April 3, 1989, Ordinance No. 5655, enacted on September 21, 1992, Ordinance No. 5959, enacted on March 6, 2000, Ordinance No. 5990 enacted on September 17, 2001, Ordinance No. 6022 enacted on July 15, 2002, and Ordinance No. 6240 enacted on April 6, 2009 is hereby amended as set forth in Exhibit A attached and incorporated herein by this reference. Section 2. The revisions to the 20-Year Financially-Constrained Roadway Projects list included in Exhibit A are hereby adopted by reference and made a part of the Metro Plan, as required by Metro Plan Policy F-9, page III-F-7. Project timing and estimated costs are not adopted as policy. Section 3 . The Metro Plan, Transportation Element, Chapter III, Section F, is hereby amended as set forth in Exhibit B attached and incorporated herein by this reference. Section 4. The City Council adopts the findings set forth in the attached Exhibit C in support of this action. Section 5. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct and independent provision and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions hereof.