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Tri-Valley Transportation Council │ 2020 Nexus Fee Update Study August 2021 │ Final 1 1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 1.1 BACKGROUND AND HISTORY In 1991, the seven jurisdictions of Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Dublin, Pleasanton, Livermore, Danville, and San Ramon signed a Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) that established the Tri-Valley Transportation Council (TVTC). The purpose of the JPA was for the joint preparation of a Tri-Valley Transportation Plan/Action Plan (TVTP/AP) for Routes of Regional Significance (RRS) and cost sharing of recommended improvements. The TVTP/AP was prepared and presented to all member jurisdictions in April 1995 and updated in 2000. The TVTP/AP created a common understanding and agreement on the Tri-Valley’s transportation concerns regarding prioritizing projects for funding and implementation. In addition to the project priorities, the TVTP/AP also recommended the development of a TVTDF to allocate a fair share of regional infrastructure cost to go towards new development. The nexus study for the fee program, completed in 1995, justified allocating the unfunded cost needed to complete all of the 11 projects identified in the TVTP/AP to new development. The TVTC, however, recommended scaling back by roughly two-thirds the total amount the fee program would collect from the maximum funding needed. The TVTC and its member jurisdictions subsequently created and adopted the TVTDF in 1998 through a Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement (JEPA). The original Strategic Expenditure Plan (SEP) was adopted in 1999. The JEPA called for a periodic update of the fee program to reflect any significant changes in population growth, project status, and other conditions that would require revisions to the fee program. Since 1995, there have been substantial changes in the funding, planning, and traffic setting in which the TVTDF was originally developed. New funding sources were established; the TVTP/AP was updated in 2000; projects were completed; project schedules and/or funding plans shifted; traffic patterns changed; and new regional transportation projects were identified through various traffic studies. The TVTC responded to these changes by directing the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) to conduct its first update to the fee nexus study to update the fee and project list. Completed and adopted in early 2008, the first update to the TVTC Nexus Study: Fee Update (“2008 Nexus Study”) identified 22 projects that the TVTC elected for eligibility to receive funding from the TVTDF. The first 11 projects (List A, Table 13) were adopted into the original program in 1995. The second set of 11 (List B, Table 13), were new projects that were included in the 2008 Nexus Study. The travel demand modeling documented in the 2008 Nexus Study projected that these projects would further reduce congestion created by new development within the Tri-Valley. A revised fee structure was released by TVTC for consideration by each member agency in late 2008. While each member agency communicated support for the revised fee structure, it was not approved by all member agencies pending preparation and approval of a corresponding SEP. A TVTC SEP Subcommittee was therefore formed to commence preparation of an SEP. To facilitate the progress of existing projects while an update to the SEP was underway, an Interim Funding Plan was approved by TVTC in April 2010. The Interim Funding Plan matched the programmed amounts and priorities established in the 2004 SEP Update. It also included a revised disbursement timeline to reflect the current Joint TVTDF account balance and projected fee collections over the next five years. With respect to the TVTC JEPA, in October 2013 TVTC entered into a new Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement (JEPA) comprised of seven member agencies: the County of Alameda, the County of Contra Costa, the City of Livermore, the City of Pleasanton, the City of San Ramon, the City of Dublin, and the Town of Danville. The purpose of the new JEPA agreement was to establish the TVTC as a separate agency responsible for planning, coordinating, and receiving disbursement of traffic impact fee