RESOLUTION BY
THE PIKES PEAK AREA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
APPROVING THE 2050 REGIONAL LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN
February 12, 2025
WHEREAS, Title 23, Chapter 1, Section 134 and Title 49, United States Code, as updated by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), requires that each urban area, as a condition to the receipt of Federal Capital or Operating Assistance, have a continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive transportation planning process that results in transportation plans and programs consistent with the planned development of an urbanized area, and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the aforementioned legislation, the Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments was designated by the Governor of the State of Colorado as the Metropolitan Planning Organization responsible for carrying out the transportation planning and programming requirements of Title 23 and Title 49, United States Code, and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Clean Air Act, as amended, 1977, the Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments was designated by the Governor of the State of Colorado as the lead Air Quality Planning Agency for the Colorado Springs Urbanizing Area, which has been designated as in attainment monoxide by the United States Environmental Protection Agency; and
WHEREAS, the Colorado Department of Transportation and Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments have jointly determined the 2045 Regional Transportation Plan Update is fiscally constrained;
NOW, BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, the Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments has determined that the 2050 Regional Long Range Transportation Plan is in conformity with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and adequately addresses metropolitan planning requirements for the preparation of a transportation improvement program per the IIJA.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments’ Board of Directors, acting for and on behalf of its affected local governmental units, hereby approves the 2050 Regional Long Range Transportation Plan.
RESOLVED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED by the Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments this 12th Day of February 2025, at Colorado Springs, Colorado.
/s/
Commissioner Holly Williams
Chair
/s/
ATTEST
Mayor Todd Dixon
Secretary