NORTHWESTERN

INDIANA

REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION

RESOLUTION 20-16

6l00 Southport Road Portage, Indiana 46368

(219) 763 6060

www.n ir pc.org

A RESOLUTION OF THE NORTHWESTERN INDIANA REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION TO ADOPT AMENDMENT #1 FOR THE 2021-2022 UNIFIED PLANNING WORK PROGRAM FOR LAKE, PORTER, AND LAPORTE COUNTIES, INDIANA

July 16, 2020

WHEREAS, the Northwestern Indiana Planning Commission, hereafter referred to as "the Commission," being designated as the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Lake, Porter, and LaPorte County area, has established a comprehensive, cooperative, and continuing transportation planning process to develop the FY 2021- 2022 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP); and

WHEREAS, the preparation of a UPWP is a necessary and required part of the metropolitan area transportation planning process as specified in 23 CFR 450.308; and by its State statutory authority, the Commission is charged with regional planning responsibility for the environment, economic development, and transportation; and

WHEREAS, the work tasks described within the Commission's UPWP are in conjunction with the programs and planning emphasis areas of the Federal Highway and Transit Administrations, and significant planning projects in the region by other agencies; and

WHEREAS, the Technical Planning Committee (TPC) has recommended that the Commission approve the UPWP Amendment #1; and

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission hereby adopts the FY 2021- 2022 UPWP Amendment #2 and the Commission is authorized to enter into such agreements and contracts as may be required with the funding and administrative agencies for the execution of this UPWP.

Duly adopted by the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission on this sixteenth day of July, 2020.

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Michael Griffin Chairperson

Secretary

Other Significant Regional Planning Activities

The planning activities listed below highlight transportation planning initiatives throughout the region.

Gary Public Transportation Corporation

Short and long-range transit planning activities designed to enhance and expand service delivery of transit for GPTC patrons. Items being explored are Broadway transit expansion, Lakeshore service expansion, regional transit expansion, outreach and marketing, transit-oriented facilities and development, planning for a relief facility, ITS, and civil rights planning.