Objectives:

a) Provide funding and other priority and other preferences to infrastructure projects that
(1) preserve or maintain existing infrastructure that serves currently developed areas of the region
(2) facilitate improvements that connect existing activity centers and reinvigorate existing communities
(3) facilitate development in higher density areas
(4) promote environmental sustainability

b) Devote at least 90% of the region’s transportation and infrastructure funding to maintain and preserve existing transportation investments.

c) Create mechanisms to monitor the condition of existing regional transportation and evaluate the social equity impacts of infrastructure investments.

d) Conduct benefit-cost analyses of all projects to insure that life-cycle costs and regional fiscal sustainability are considered.