An official website of the POLICY 7: Equitable benefits and burdens
This policy states:
Evaluate processes, policies, programs, and plans to ensure that community benefits and burdens from transportation investments are distributed equitably.
Actions
- Investment Priority (IP): Actions tagged with (IP) provide direction to regional investment processes directed by the plan. This includes the Regional Solicitation, which will complete an evaluation to determine the appropriate framework and application of these actions to the Regional Solicitation. Actions could be applied in the Regional Solicitation in a variety of ways including qualifying requirements, application categories, or scoring measures. These actions can also apply to other regional highway and transit funding programs. Investment priorities targeted exclusively at local governments are tagged as local planning (see below).
- Local Planning (LP): Actions tagged with (LP) are requirements or guidance for agencies to incorporate into the transportation element of their Comprehensive Plans, corridor plans, transit provider plans, and other plans that are not regional or statewide. Major items are noted but this is not intended to be a comprehensive list. Local planning tag may also indicate actions with potential local investment priorities that would help support regional goals and objectives that are not tied to regional or statewide investment programs.
- Technical Capacity Building (CB): Actions tagged with (CB) are technical assistance and support activities to provide guidance and best practices to agencies that builds regional technical capacity.
- Partner (P): Actions tagged with (P) are activities that support the regional goals and transportation objectives where the plan is directing partners to take a direct lead. This tag applies primarily to regional or state partners; the local planning tag provides direction to local partners.
- Work Program (WP): Actions tagged with (WP) are work program activities, including staff time and consultant studies, to be worked on until the next scheduled update of the plan in five years. These items are necessary to further research and policy guidance to support the region in achieving its goals and transportation objectives. Work program items are listed at the end of each policy. More complete descriptions of work program items are provided in the Imagine 2050 TPP Work Program.
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Met Council | MnDOT | Counties | Cities | Transit | Other |
| 7A. Evaluate local area benefits and impacts for environmental justice communities, in addition to corridor travel, when planning transportation projects. Action type: Local Planning |
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| 7B. Evaluate and report on program level impacts (Transportation Policy Plan and Transportation Improvement Program) and benefits to environmental justice communities to ensure regional planning processes result in equitable outcomes for the region. Action type: Investment Priority |
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| 7C. Implement Justice40 considerations for relevant funding programs to ensure at least 40% of the benefits of those investments will be directed to disadvantaged communities as defined by USDOT's Justice40 guidance. Action type: Investment Priority |
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| 7D. Review and revise, as findings recommend, MnDOT’s process to ensure noise walls and other noise mitigation efforts are equally distributed for the people experiencing noise pollution. Evaluate the noise wall decision process, including how residents and property owners vote on that decision, to ensure all residents experiencing noise impacts are heard and properly protected. (See 13E for related action.) Action type: Partner |
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| 7E. Develop and provide tools, training, and best practices on equitable process development and project development. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Partner |
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| 7F. Develop an analysis methodology and environmental justice framework to evaluate how projects benefit or harm different communities and demographics. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Work Program |
(FHWA) |
FHWA is the Federal Highway Administration.
