Secondary Effects USH 12 Experience

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Secondary EffectsUSH 12 Experience

• Dane and Sauk Counties
• Wisconsin

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History
Sauk City
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• DOT wanted to improve a 2-lane rural roadway
  radiating from the Madison Metropolitan Area to a
  4-lane expressway (Dane County)

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18 Mile Project Corridor
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Middleton
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Madison
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90
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Fitchburg
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• Went through an extensive public/agency
  involvement process 1991 to 1995
• Study committees with governments and agencies
  (before they were popular)
• Project scoping meetings
• Township coordination meetings
• Public Involvement Meetings
• Interaction with ALL agencies

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History

• Focus of concern was agricultural impacts to this
  corridor lined with dairy farms.
• Because of this, on-alignment alternatives were
  favored to reduce farm severances

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• 1993 Ho-Chunk Bingo Hall lies on USH 12
• 2 miles south of Interstate 90/94
• 20 miles north of Sauk City
• 40 miles north of Madison
• 1993 Changes in legislation allow Bingo Hall to
  convert to Casino
• Traffic Volumes Dramatically Increase

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History

• 1994 DOT initiates EIS for 11 mile portion of USH
  12 south of interstate (Sauk County)
• Leaves an 11 mile segment of unimproved roadway
  between two projects
• 1995 DOI letter cites segmentation
• DOT answers by including impacts of whole
  corridor in the EIS for both projects
• Even for roadway portion not going to be improved
  for 20 years

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Background

• Dane County DEIS released in 1995
• Almost all supported a four-lane improvement on
  existing alignment
• Sauk County DEIS released in 1996
• 5 different alignments investigated, both on and
  off-alignment

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History

• Baraboo Range National Natural Landmark!!!!
• Quartzite Range
• 27 miles long
• 14 miles wide
• South Range
• Largest block of unfragmented forest in the
  Mid-west

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History
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History

• Clear-cut in early 1900s
• Steep slopes and rocky soils limited agricultural
  use
• Steep slopes and rocky soils limited septic
  systems
• Lack of development allowed reforestation
• Home to many TE species (particularly
  neo-tropical birds
• Last Great Place by Nature Conservancy
• National Natural Landmark
• Most of land still privately owned

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History

• New secondary effects concerns
• With a four-lane roadway BRNNL more attractive
  to live in for Madison commuters
• A regulatory agency asked for quantitative
  analysis of how improvement would affect BRNNL
• How many new commuters (2nd Effect)
• How many locate in BRNNL (2nd Effect)
• How the new households would affect TE species
  (3rd Effect)

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History

• DOT promptly started a review
• (Project on Fast Track)
• Three quantitative analysis started
• Gravity-type
• Commuter Shed Review
• Highway Type vs. Community Growth
• Resulted in Increasing DOA projections
• Qualitative review of effects to TE species also
  initiated

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Gravity-type Model
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Commuter Shed Analysis
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Change in DOA Projections
54 more population growth than projected
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History

• 167 acres of more residential development in
  BRNNL
• 28 caused by highway improvement
• 120 page analysis listed in SDEIS
• Allocated development to areas most susceptible
  to development to determine effect to TE species

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• Agencies were skeptical
• Believed effects would be much greater
• EPA threatened an EU rating
• EPA commissioned their own study from Argonne
  Labs
• Argonne Report extremely critical of quantitative
  methods used
• Report seemed to advocate more rigorous use of
  Gravity Model (emphasis on commuters)
• Criticisms of qualitative analysis to TE species
  were modest

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History

• DOT responded
• Review of historical changes in land use in the
  BRNNL
• Supplemental quantitative analysis focusing on
  Gravity model.
• Released a Supplemental DEIS for Sauk county USH
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History

• Historical Land Use change in BRNNL
• (From Satellite photographs)

Forest Interior Actually Increased from 1962 to
1992!
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History

• Supplemental Gravity Analysis
• 12 different models performed
• All indicated a change in commuters of 13 to 28
  more commuters from BRNNL due to improved highway
  times
• Agencies (DATCP) critical of analysis
• Said it only considered effect of commuter, and
  not local growth

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USH 12 MOA

• Phased Construction in Dane County
• 1999 Preliminary work only
• 200-2001 Construct northern portion
• 2002-2003 Grading, no pavement in southern
  portion
• 2004 Construction of Middleton Bypass

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USH 12 MOA

• Access Control and Adjoining Land Divisions
• 30 fewer access points as compared to current
  roadway
• 500 foot control of access along local roads
• 1000 foot control of access along State and
  County roads

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USH 12 MOA

• Commuter Rail/Transit Alternatives Study to be
  completed
• Fund 50 of PE for locally preferred alternative
  for commuter rail/transit study.
• Secondary Land Use Impact Methodology
• Survey state of art modeling techniques
• Provide guidelines for use of models
• Identify improvement needed in models

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USH 12 MOA

• BRNNL Protection Fund
• 5 million for purchase of land or development
  rights in Baraboo Range
• Legislature not amused, passed bill that
  development rights can only be purchased within ½
  mile of highway Right-of-Way
• Preservation outside BRNNL
• 5 million for development rights in Dane and
  Sauk Counties
• Local Planning Assistance

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USH 12 MOA

• Ice Age National Scenic Trail
• Grade Separated Crossings
• Transportation Enhancement aid
• Play nice together provisions
• Meet biannually to discuss status of MOA
• One original signer left, considers himself to be
  the conscious of the MOA

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