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MEMORANDUM
Date: July 27, 2016
To: Mayor and City Councilmembers
From: Mark Houdashelt, AQAB Chair
CC: Air Quality Advisory Board
Darin Atteberry, City Manager
Re: Recommendations Regarding the West Elizabeth Enhanced Travel Corridor
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The Air Quality Advisory Board (AQAB) recommends adoption of the West Elizabeth Enhanced
Travel Corridor (WETC) Plan. Although the air quality impacts of this Plan may be relatively small
(no quantitative estimates of such impacts have been made), we expect that implementation of the
Interim Improvements, as well as the Recommended Design, will reduce the emissions of both
greenhouse gases and criteria air pollutants, such as ozone precursors, to some extent. The AQAB
therefore supports the Plan and also recommends that the Transportation Air Quality Impacts Guidance
Manual, currently under development, be utilized to estimate the air quality impacts of any of the
WETC Plan’s projects both before and after they are implemented. This information can be used to
help prioritize elements of the plan and to compare the post-implementation impacts to those expected.