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Item No. 4A Date of Meeting: March 21, 2019 Tacoma Dome Link Extension Port of Tacoma Commission | 3.21.19 Agenda Project overview Technical evaluation results Next steps & scoping information 2 Tacoma Dome Link Extension (TDLE)

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Tacoma Dome Link Extension

Port of Tacoma Commission | 3.21.19

Item No. 4A Date of Meeting: March 21, 2019

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Project overview Technical evaluation results Next steps & scoping information

Agenda

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Federal Way Transit Center to Tacoma Dome

  • Length: 9.7 miles
  • Stations: 4 (2 parking garages)
  • Scheduled opening in 2030

Operations and Maintenance Facility – South

  • Scheduled opening in 2026
  • South King County

Tacoma Dome Link Extension (TDLE)

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TDLE alternatives development process

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TDLE project timeline

PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT

Groundbreaking Construction updates and mitigation Safety education Testing and pre-operations

PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT

Final route design Final station designs Procure and commission station and public art Obtain land use and development agreements Begin property acquisition

PLANNING DESIGN CONSTRUCTION

2022–2025 2025–2030 START OF SERVICE 2016 Alternatives development

  • Investigation of

alternatives

  • Board identifies

Preferred Alternative Environmental review

  • Draft Environmental

Impact Statement (DEIS)

  • Final EIS

Board selects project to be built Federal agency issues Record of Decision (ROD) 2030 2018–2022

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Alternatives development process

PLANNING DESIGN CONSTRUCTION

2018–2022 2025–2030 2016 Alternatives development (2018-2019)

  • Investigation of

alternatives

  • Board identifies

Preferred Alternative Environmental review (2019-2022)

  • Draft EIS
  • Final EIS

Board selects project to be built Federal agency issues Record of Decision (ROD)

PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT

Preferred Alternative and other EIS alternatives

Summer 2019

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TDLE Level 2 evaluation results

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Level 2 alternatives

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Effective transportation solutions Land use and economic development and Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Preserve the environment Equitable mobility Financially sustainable and constructible

Final evaluation criteria categories

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Level 2 alternatives: East Tacoma

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East Tacoma: Alternatives with more potential

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(ET 3A) connects with “more potential” Tacoma Dome alternatives (ET 3A) Closest to destinations south of I-5

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East Tacoma: Alternatives with greater challenges

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Farthest from destinations south of I-5 Higher potential for freight impacts (ET 3B & 5) Connects to more challenging station in Tacoma Dome area

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Tacoma Dome & East Tacoma station areas

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Fife: Level 2 alternatives

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Fife: Alternatives with more potential

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Fewer property Impacts (3A)

Location in planned City Center, greater potential development opportunity

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Fife: Alternatives with greater challenges

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Higher potential impacts to freight movement Higher potential of residential impacts Higher impacts to major economic activity generators

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TDLE more potential alternatives, end-to-end

Based on preliminary technical analysis

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EIS Scoping & Next Steps

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What is EIS scoping for TDLE?

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  • Start of federal environmental review process
  • 30-day public comment period, April 1-May 1 (tentative)
  • Seeking public feedback on scope of EIS
  • Preferred alternative and other alternatives for further study
  • Topics to study (e.g. economics, displacements, ecosystems)
  • Purpose and need
  • Informs Board decision on what to study in EIS
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Next steps for TDLE*

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April

(tentative)

EIS scoping period, including:

  • Online and in-person
  • pen houses
  • Formal comments

encouraged

March

Briefings on Level 2 evaluation results to:

  • To Cities & Tribal staff

& elected officials

  • ELG and SG

meetings

May-June

(tentative)

Building consensus around preferred alternative and other

  • ptions, including:
  • Scoping summary report
  • SG feedback
  • City/Tribal Councils’ post-

scoping guidance to ELG

  • ELG recommendation to ST

Board

Preliminary schedule to reach a preferred alternative

*dates are subject to change

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Next steps*

Next ELG meetings

(tentative)

  • May 31
  • June 14

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ST Board identifies preferred alternative and other alternatives for EIS

  • TDLE: July 2019

EIS Scoping

  • OMF South:
  • Feb. 19 – April 1
  • TDLE:

April 1 – May 1 (tentative)

ST Board identifies sites for environmental review

  • OMF South: May 2019

*dates are subject to change

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soundtransit.org/tdlink

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Questions?