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