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Vancouver City Council · Jun 15, 2026 · 34:39–38:03 · Watch on CVTV ↗

City officials reviewed the six-year Transportation Improvement Program, discussing how transportation infrastructure projects are prioritized, funded, or deferred based on safety data and grant availability. Staff explained that under the newly adopted Comprehensive Plan, unfunded and long-term projects are moved to a 20-year Capital Facilities Plan to ensure future community needs are tracked. This long-term planning framework was specifically debated in the context of residents requesting near-term funding for a delayed pedestrian pathway along the Old Evergreen Highway.

Keywords: comprehensive plan infrastructure capital facilities

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33:37 that are fully funded, partially funded, or unfunded, and we need to say what our finances are. So this annual document also includes information about our capital revenues, our capital expenditures, what are we taking in, what's going out, how is it being paid. So what we do is do an analysis and ranking of projects, and that is how we determine those six-year funded and partially funded programs, and it's really our work plan that gets updated every year. So once something gets built, it gets taken out of the work program. As things move forward, they move up to partially funded, generally if we have received some sort of grant. So we have a partial, maybe it's design money, construction money, that will move up. As we secure other funds and do our biannual budgets, things move to fully funded. And so this year is the last year

34:36 that we have a fully unconstrained list. Now that we've adopted the comprehensive plan, we can move those unfunded projects to the capital facilities plan. And that is really a 20-year plan that looks at all of the facilities that we need. And so that will be really the place that holds kind of all of the transportation needs as well as other capital facility needs. Whereas we'll be able to really focus our transportation improvement program truly on what we think we can do within six years and what we really want to target and move forward in six years. And so again, every year we annually update this to take older projects off, to move new projects into fully funded based on our budgeting that year and on grants we've been awarded. Similarly, the partially funded gets moved up if we've been awarded grants or otherwise identified funded for those projects. And again, this is a state mandated process that we in every city go through every year.

35:34 So I'm going to say it back to you, or I'm going to say my interpretation back to you. So every year projects move on and off of this. Oh, actually first, how often does this transportation system plan get updated? So it's a 20-year plan, but cities typically update transportation system plans every five to 10 years just to stay abreast. Ours had not been updated in about 20 years. So ours was most recently adopted in early 2024. Great. And then we have plans to do it more frequently going into the future? Yes, that's correct. In fact, we'll be doing a minor update next year in order to make sure we're fully aligned with the comprehensive plan and all the policy that came through that. Tremendous.

36:30 And so then annually we update the transportation improvement plan, projects come in and on and off of that. Things that we may not have thought could be done in six years could come into that in a particular year. Things that we're realizing can't be done in six years may move off of that. That's right. We have an evaluation or prioritization process that was developed with council input during the transportation system plan. So items that may make a project more difficult to do, whether it's a very high cost, whether there are ecological impacts, enormous right of way impacts, other things that make something difficult and expensive that might make it more of a medium or long term. And so we don't forget about it, but it gets put on that capital facilities plan.

37:30 Whereas within that six years, it's been identified because it meets criteria for where we want to invest, whether that takes into account our equity index, it takes into account our crash history, where we see growth happening. So it takes into account those corridors of our comprehensive plan and our modal network. It also accounts for whether there are other projects that could be coordinated to save money. So do we have an upcoming pavement project on a corridor because of the state of asphalt repair? And so we're going to use that as an opportunity to not only repave the street, but implement some of our bike and pedestrian projects at the same time. Whether there's some other partnership of C-TRAN, for example, our upper main street was done in conjunction with the C-TRAN Highway 99 project. So that moved that up. So these are all things that helps a project score to make it onto that six year plan.

38:28 It's a numerous different criteria. And so we run that prioritization scoring each year for all the projects that we think are near term or medium term. And those that are long term don't go through the scoring process just because there's so many of them. But if there's a reason for them to move up, like a particular grant opportunity, then they would be scored. Thank you very much. Any other questions or comments at this time? Councilor Perez, go ahead. Thank you. OK. So at the last public community forum,


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direct keyword 34:39–34:48 comprehensive plan, infrastructure, capital facilities
maybe it's design money, construction money, that will move up. As we secure other funds and do our biannual budgets, things move to fully funded. And so this year is the last year that we have a fully unconstrained list. Now that we've adopted the comprehensive plan, we can move those unfunded projects to the capital facilities plan. And that is really a 20-year plan that looks at all of the facilities that we need. And so that will be really the place that holds kind of all of the transportat

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. So ours was most recently adopted in early 2024. Great. And then we have plans to do it more frequently going into the future? Yes, that's correct. In fact, we'll be doing a minor update next year in order to make sure we're fully aligned with the comprehensive plan and all the policy that came through that. Tremendous. And so then annually we update the transportation improvement plan, projects come in and on and off of that. Things that we may not have thought could be done in six years coul

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direct keyword 37:47–38:03 comprehensive plan, infrastructure, capital facilities
rs, it's been identified because it meets criteria for where we want to invest, whether that takes into account our equity index, it takes into account our crash history, where we see growth happening. So it takes into account those corridors of our comprehensive plan and our modal network. It also accounts for whether there are other projects that could be coordinated to save money. So do we have an upcoming pavement project on a corridor because of the state of asphalt repair? And so we're goi

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