EL DORADO COUNTY
2025 REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN

What is it?
The RTP is a blueprint for the systematic development of a balanced, comprehensive, multi-modal transportation system, including but not limited to: roadways, transit, aviation, goods movement, bikeways, pedestrian facilities, transportation systems management and intelligent transportation systems. The RTP considers both the short-term (up to ten year) and long-term (ten to twenty year) periods, and focuses on those improvement projects that currently have funding in place or that are projected to have funding in the future (fiscally Constrained), while it also identifies improvement projects that are needed but do not have funding (Fiscally Unconstrained).

RTPs have many specific functions, including:

• Providing an assessment of the current modes of transportation and the potential of new travel options within the region
• Predicting the future needs for travel and goods movement
• Identifying and documenting specific actions necessary to address the region’s mobility and accessibility needs
• Identifying needed transportation improvements in sufficient detail to serve as a foundation for the development of the RTIP and ITIP
• Promoting consistency between the California Transportation Plan, the RTP, and other transportation plans developed by cities, counties, districts, private organizations, tribal governments, and state and federal agencies in responding to statewide and interregional transportation issues and needs
• Providing a forum for participation and cooperation
• Facilitating partnerships that reconcile transportation issues which transcend regional boundaries
• Involving the public, federal, State and local agencies, as well as local elected officials, early in the transportation planning process so as to include them in discussions and decisions on the social, economic, air quality and environmental issues related to transportation

RTP REQUIREMENTS
The El Dorado County 2025 RTP has been prepared in accordance with AB 402 (Government Code Title 7, Chapter 2.5, Sections 65080-65082) using specific guidance from the California Transportation Commission Regional Transportation Plan Guidelines (revised December 2003). To qualify for funding in the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), projects included in a Regional Transportation Improvement Program (RTIP) or the Interregional Transportation Improvement Program (ITIP) must be consistent with adopted RTPs. In compliance with Government Code Section 65080(c), the California Transportation Commission will only consider STIP funding for projects consistent with an RTP adopted within four years (in rural regions) of STIP adoption.

RTP ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The Regional Transportation Plan Advisory Committee is comprised of representatives from the following groups/areas:

• Area reps from each County District
• Aviation - EDC General Services, Airport Operations
• Bicycle Advocate
• Business - EDC Chamber of Commerce
• California Trucking Association
• Caltrans District 3
• Cameron Park Community Services District
• City of Placerville Planning Commission
• City of Placerville Planning Dept.
• City of Placerville Public Works Dept.
• Developer Representative - Serrano Associates
• EDC Area Agency on Aging
• EDC Dept. of Transportation
• EDC General Services Dept.
• EDC Planning Commission
• EDC Planning Dept.
• El Dorado County Taxpayers for Quality Growth
• El Dorado Hills Community Services District
• El Dorado Surveyors Architects, Geologists and Engineers (SAGE)
• El Dorado Transit
• Environmental Advocate - Sierra Club
• Measure Y Committee
• Pedestrian Advocate
• Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) Liaison
• Shingle Springs Rancheria
• Social Equity - EDC Dept. of Social Services
• Social Services Transportation Advisory Council Representative
• Taxpayers' Association of El Dorado County

For more information, contact us.

EDCTC Executive Director Kathryn Mathews reviews the agenda for a Regional Transportation Plan Advisory Committee meeting.

RTP PUBLIC REVIEW

In conjunction with the Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the RTP was distributed for public review from June 29 to August 12, 2005. The public hearing for the RTP and EIR, conducted on August 4, 2005, provided the public an additional opportunity to provide comments on the RTP. Several comments, both oral and written, were received on the RTP, and were included in the Commission’s September agenda packet.

The El Dorado County Regional Transportation Plan 2005-2025 was adopted by the EDCTC on Thursday October 6, 2005.

Link to the El Dorado County 2005-2025 RTP Download Page