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METROPOLITAN C Q U N C f L 2022 SYSTEM STATEMENT September 2022 2022 TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM STATEMENT FOR CITY OF GEM LAKE The 2040 Transportation PoiicyPian {TPP} is the metropolitan system pIan for highways, transit, and aviation. Local comprehensive plans must conform to identified system investments in this plan. This. system statement summarizes changes to the system since.2015, highlights the changes that apply to your community, and.provides guidance to ensure local comprehensive plans conform to regional system plans, as required by State law. Find the. complete text of the 20.40 Transportation Policy Plan on the Council's website: htt s:Hmetroco u ncil. o ng/Transpg rtation/Planninci -21Ke =Trans partation� Plan nin -Docu ents/Trans ortation-Poli-Plan.as x. Since the last system statement release in2015, there have. been two adopted updates to the TPP, along with several administrative modifications and adopted amendments. The TPP was updated in October 2018 and November 20.0, administratively modified in September 2021 and February2D22, and amended in March 2022. The TPP updates also included changes to policies that communities are encouraged to respond to in their comprehensive plans; such as policies identifying and describing investment priorities forthe Regional Bicycle Transportation Network (RBTN). Federal Requirements The TPP must. respond to requirements outlined in statute, as well as federal law, including some new requirements in federal taw. Metropolitan transportation plans must now be performance based, so the TPP includes an expanded discussion of performance measures for this plan in Chapter 13: Performance Outcomes. This chapter identifies targets f a r federal ly required and regionally desired performance .measures. Federally required performance measures and targets include safety, pavement and bridge conditions, highway system and f reight reliability, air quality, transit asset management, .and transit: safety performance. Federal law requires the TPP to identify regio n al ly sig nificant transportation investments expected to be made over the next two decades, and to demonstrate that these planned investments can.be afforded urider the plan is financial assumptions: Bath costs and .available revenues have changed since the last plan was adopted in.2015, resulting in many changes. Federal law allows the plan to provide -avision for how an increased level of transportation revenue might be spent if more resources become available, but the programs or projects id entitled. in this scenario are not considered part of th e approved plan. The TPP includes two funding scenarios for the metropolitan highway and transit systems, #lie "Current Revenue Scenario" and the "Increased Revenue Scenario:" e The Current Revenue Scenario represents the fiscally constrained regional transportation. plan, which assumes revenues that the regioncan reasonably expect to be available based on past experience and currentlaws and allocation formulas. r The Increased Revenue Scertario represents.an illustration of what might. be achieved with a .reasonable increase. in revenues for transportation. Under the Metropolitan Land Planning Act, local comprehensive plans are expected to conform to the Current Revenue Scenario, which is the official metropolitan system plan. Potential improvements Page -t