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RESOLUTION TO FORMALLY REQUEST THE COUNTY OF CABARRUS, NORTH CAROLINA, TO BE THE LEAD PLANNING AGENCY OF THE NEW KANNAPOLIS, LANDIS, CHINA GROVE, AND CONCORD METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION WHEN IT IS CREATED. WHEREAS, the results of the 1980 U. S Census for Rowan and Cabarrus Counties w~ll show that the area will be designated a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Kannapolis-Concord-Landis-China Grove area will be designated as an Urbanized Area; and, WHEREAS, when the area is designated as am Urbanized Area the area will be required to meet the specifications of the 1964 Federal Highway Act that calls f~r a comprehensive, continuing, and cooperative (3-C process) trans- portation planning process to be.carried out by local municipalities and counties, the State Department of Transnortation, as well as the Federal High- way Administration; and, WHEREAS, to establish the 3-C process the municipalities and counties that have jurisdiction in the Urbanized Area will be adopting a Memorandum of Understanding which will set up the Metropolitan Planning Organization to establish the transportation planning program; and WHEREAS, the local government having jurisdiction in this area must cooperatively agree on designating one of the local government bodies that have a planning agency to be the Lead Planning Agency of the Metropolitan Planning Organization to receive funds from the Federal Highway Administration and the local governments that have jurisdiction in this area when they become available. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That the Rowan County Board of Commissioners request that the County of Cabarrus Planning Department be designated the Lead Planning Agency for the Metropolitan Planning Organization when created by the adoptiom of the Memorandum of Understanding, and that when funds from the Federal Highway Administration are made available to this area, that they be given to the Lead Planning Agency to establish the Transportation Planning Program. Resolution adopted by the Rowan County Board of Commissioners, Rowan County, North Carolina, at its regular Commission meeting on Aprit 6, 198] I, B~e~cl~I,. ~ne~u~ , County Clerk of the County of Rowan, North Carolina, do hereby~certify that the above is a true and correct copy of excerpts from the Minutes of the County Commissioners of said County. Witness my hand and the official seal of the County of Rowan, this the 8~h day of ~).z~Z1 , 19 81 ·