# Presentation: 083885

## Making Right-of-Way Work to Your Advantage: 

**Making Right-of-Way Work to Your Advantage:**** **
**Overviews of the Evolving Process Integration and Corridor Preservation Techniques**

## Integration Session Objectives

**Examine concept of integration and progress to date**
**Review role of right-of-way in environment**
**Identify benefits of integrating right-of-way and environment**

## Integration Defined

**Processes, systems, or specific methods that incorporate environmental and community values into transportation decisions at an early point in planning, and all the way through project design and construction**
**	****	****	*****2004 HEP Guidance on Integration***

## Integration Research

**Purpose**
**To identify successful practices currently employed in the development of transportation solutions by means of integrating the disciplines of planning, environment, real estate, and engineering**
**Methods**
**Web-based survey of States, MPOs, LPAs, others (70% response rate)**
**Case studies**

**Notes:**
Performed by Jack Faucett Associates for Office of Real Estate Services, reported in 2003

## Agency Views About Usefulness of Integration

|  | Integrated
Agency | Non-Integrated |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Engineering | 83% | 85% |
| Environment | 100% | 92% |
| Planning | 95% | 91% |
| Real Estate  | 100% | 83% |
| Average | 95% | 88% |

## Reported Examples of Successful Integration Practices

**Involve all disciplines earlier, more often**
**Have disciplines work concurrently, meet specified milestones**
**Apply cradle-to-grave project management**
**Combine project development with asset management**

## Reported Integration Challenges

**Different Roles for NEPA and Planning**** **
**Role of planners is to establish needs vs. roles of engineering and environmental disciplines is to find solutions**
**Priority given to completing projects quickly**
**Integrated approach requires more involvement and time commitment in initial stages **

## More Integration Challenges

**Difficulty obtaining public involvement**
**Hard to motivate community members to participate and difficult to gather input in time-efficient manner**
**Integration of land use and transportation planning**
**Frustration in merging the two, land use is considered a local government issue**

## Case Studies: Common Pitfalls

**Weak feedback loops **
**Overlooking need to involve construction and maintenance staff**
**Insufficient internal education on roles of each discipline in process**
**Insufficient education for partner agencies on new process and how it will affect them**

**Notes:**
Studied Florida, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania

## Right-of-Way Considerations in the Environmental Process

**Right-of-Way Considerations in the Environmental Process**

**Richard Henry**
**Ohio Division**

**Notes:**
Por todo esto, propongo que de hoy en adelante;

## Objectives

**Define regulatory requirements**
**Which agencies are involved?**
**Types of potential impacts**
**Timing and management issues**
**Benefits of integration**
**Overview of Uniform Act and relocation requirements**

**Notes:**
Por todo esto, propongo que de hoy en adelante;

## Regulatory Requirements

**State Law– Appropriation of Property**
**State Relocation Law**
**49 CFR Part 24 – Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 as amended (The Uniform Act)**

## Which Agencies Are Involved?

**FHWA Division Office**
**Planning, Right-of-Way, Environment, and Transportation Operations**
**State DOT **
**Planning, Environment, Real Estate, and District Offices**
**SHPO – State Historic Preservation Office**
**Utility Companies**

**Notes:**
Por todo esto, propongo que de hoy en adelante;

## Types of Impacts

**Primary impacts**
**Permanent total takes and relocations**
**Partial acquisitions**
**Easements (permanent, temporary, limited use**
**Secondary Impacts:**
**Geographic isolation**
**Loss of tax base**
**Loss of employment**
**Cumulative impacts on community, etc. **

**Notes:**
Por todo esto, propongo que de hoy en adelante;

## Relocation Impacts

**Residential properties – owners and tenants**
**Business properties – owners and tenants**
**Farms and other agricultural uses**
**Nonprofit organizations – churches, etc.**
**Public facilities – police, fire, schools, parks, etc.**

**Notes:**
Por todo esto, propongo que de hoy en adelante;

## Things to Look For

**Limited access highways**
**Large numbers of relocations (context and intensity)**
**Projects that bisect communities **
**Complex business moves**
**Historic areas**

**Notes:**
Studied Florida, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania

## Red Flags

**Insufficient housing available of the type required.**
**Businesses that deal in hazardous type industries.**
**Complex railroad relocations.**
**Complex utility relocations.**
**Acquisition of government-owned lands/Indian lands**

**Notes:**
Studied Florida, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania

## Timing and Management Issues

**Early coordination**
**Early identification of impacts**
**Avoidance and minimization**
**Strong public involvement**
**Mitigation of impacts**
**Involvement of other public agencies**

**Notes:**
Por todo esto, propongo que de hoy en adelante;

## Required Documentation

**Property survey**
**Estimate of R/W needs**
**Relocation conceptual stage report**
**Preliminary/final R/W plans**
**Public involvement**
**FHWA approvals**

## Aerial photography
Tax maps & assessment data
Engineering drawings
Well and septic plans
Plats, surveys, deed research
Census data
Community services offices

**Tax maps & assessment data**
**Engineering drawings**
**Well and septic plans**
**Plats, surveys, deed research**
**Census data**
**Community services offices**

**Documentation Tools**

## Planning Requirements

**Relocation survey**
**early stage of project development is  best time to identify and estimate impacts on potentially displaced persons, businesses, and farms**
**when problems are revealed early in the planning stage, adequate time will be provided to allow for an array of solutions **

## Extending the lead time for R/W
Project re-alignment where insurmountable difficulties are found
Modifications to the construction plans
Other mitigation measures

**Project re-alignment where insurmountable difficulties are found**
**Modifications to the construction plans**
**Other mitigation measures**

**Solutions May Include**

## Benefits of Integration

**Helps identify fatal flaws early**
**Provides lead time to resolve problems**
**Facilitates better cost estimates, more realistic project schedules**
**Reduces adverse impacts on communities and individuals**
**Provides data for NEPA process**

**Notes:**
Studied Florida, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania

## Requirements of Relocation Survey

**Number of displaced households**
**Number of persons in each household**
**Gender/age makeup**
**Rooms/bedrooms**
**Owner/tenant status**
**Income status**
**Individual needs – transportation to work, school****, ****church, community facilities**

## Market Survey

**Number of available units**
**dwellings **
**business sites**
**Purchase/rental prices**
**Dwelling size**
**rooms/bedrooms/baths, etc.**
**General availability**
**Timeliness of availability**
**Supply/demand factors**

## The Uniform Act

**The Uniform Act**

**All acquisition and relocation activities must conform to 49 CFR Part 24**
**Provides basis for just compensation**
**Encourages home ownership**
**Requires DS&S housing**
**Seeks to alleviate disruption**
**Requires specified notices**

## Residential Relocation Payments

**Moving payments**** **
**actual cost or schedule as published by FHWA**
**Replacement housing payments**
**purchase supplement (up to $22,500)**
**rental assistance (up to $5,250)**
**down payment assistance (up to $5,250)**
**Last resort housing**
**Increased interest payments**

## Decent, Safe, and Sanitary Housing

**Potable water supply/sewerage**
**Adequate heat**
**Safe electrical system**
**Adequate size for relocatee’s family**
**Structurally sound**
**Handicapped-accessible where necessary**
**Must meet all local code requirements**** **

## Housing of Last Resort

**If a comparable DS&S property cannot be located within the $22,500 limit for owners, or the $5,250 limit for tenants, the provisions of last resort housing may be utilized to exceed those limits, or use other means to provide housing**

## Business Relocation

**Moving expenses **
**actual cost**
**Reestablishment payment **
**up to $10,000**
**In-lieu-of payment **
**fixed payment based on net average earnings for past two years**
**maximum $20,000**

## General information
given in early stage to all potential relocatees
includes copy of State’s brochure explaining benefits
Notice of relocation eligibility 
given at time of Fair Market Value to owner
90-day/30-day notice to vacate
no relocatee can be forced to move without at least 90 days notice
30 day notice given before eviction

**given in early stage to all potential relocatees**
**includes copy of State’s brochure explaining benefits**
**Notice of relocation eligibility **
**given at time of Fair Market Value to owner**
**90-day/30-day notice to vacate**
**no relocatee can be forced to move without at least 90 days notice**
**30 day notice given before eviction**

**Required Notices**

## Questions ???                

**Questions ???****                **