Additional Avoidance and Minimization Measures Clause Samples

Additional Avoidance and Minimization Measures. Following the completion of the FEIS, extensive coordination has continued between NCDOT, project stakeholders, potentially impacted property and business owners, and the I-26 Working Group. To further minimize and reduce impacts associated with the project, final designs will incorporate the following design revisions including design modifications to ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Avenue east of the French Broad River. As part of the stipulations outlined in the January 2021 MOA, NCDOT agreed to evaluate lessening impacts to the Riverside Cemetery within the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Historic District by modifying the preliminary design in proximity to the cemetery, specifically by lowering the U.S. 19-23-70 roadway adjacent to the property. These modifications were also developed to accommodate goals of the City of Asheville including lowering the profile of the flyover bridges over the French Broad River, reducing the project footprint, and expanded local road and pedestrian connections. The resulting impacts from the proposed changes to the I-240/▇▇▇▇▇▇ Avenue design include an overall reduced highway footprint, overall reduction in residential relocations, minimized community impacts, reduced vertical profile along Riverside Drive, enhanced bicycle and pedestrian accommodations, and enhanced safety.