Community Planning Services

The vendor is required to provide community plan (2016) to reflect current conditions, address evolving trends, and guide future growth and development.
1. Community plan assessment and existing conditions update
•    Stakeholder discussions: 
o    Conduct targeted meetings with various stakeholders, including representatives from growth areas, redevelopment areas, established neighborhoods, the business community, and others to identify key opportunities and issues. 
o    Other stakeholders will include city staff including engineering, public service, parks and recreation, economic development, water, and electric.
•    General public outreach: 
o    Facilitate meetings, open houses, or other forms of public engagement with the entire general public to gauge their concerns or ideas for the future that may need to be incorporated into the community plan. 
o    This should include work sessions with planning commission and city council.
•    Assessment of implementation: 
o    Evaluate the implementation of the current community plan, detailing what recommendations have been completed and what remains to be addressed, and outlining overarching emerging and future themes, market changes, and potential opportunities.
•    Education: 
o    Facilitate topical discussions on contemporary planning trends related to housing, economic development, and other relevant areas to establish a shared understanding and informational foundation to the update process.
•    Preliminary updates to existing conditions, demographics, and community plan format: 
o    Update the existing conditions and demographic information contained within the current community plan as a preliminary step towards the full update and to establish the data background of the current community conditions and projected future based on the data. 
o    This assessment will help define the scope and format of the final community plan update (project 3). 
o    The update may involve integrating new information into the existing document structure or creating a newly formatted plan using the foundational information.
•    Identification of additional focus areas: 
o    Identify any additional areas within the city that may benefit from future focused planning efforts, similar to south state street project including identifying the geographic extent of potential areas and assessing existing plans and regulations together with the framework defined by the outcome of project 2, which should be replicated in other strategic areas.
2. South state street focus area project
•    Existing condition analysis: 
o    An assessment of the existing conditions, development, development patterns, infrastructure, access, land use transitions, and opportunities, together with the anticipated assessment of the existing overlay and south state street plan and its implementation.
o    It will be important to take into account the current economic development strategy as applied to this area. 
•    Individualized public engagement: 
o    Design and implement a public engagement process specifically tailored to the south state street area, ensuring strategic outreach to property owners and businesses as well as the general public including input from stakeholders surrounding the area. 
o    Other stakeholders will include but may not be limited to the regional development community as well as city staff from engineering, public service, water, electric, fiber, parks and recreation, and economic development. 
•    Visualization of future potential: 
o    Develop visualizations and concepts that illustrate the potential future of the south state street area. 
•    Recommendations for zoning implementation: 
o    The selected consultant should provide suggestions for implementing the adopted focus area vision within a future zoning ordinance update that includes analyzing the existing plan (including its implementation to date) and overlay regulations. 
o    A zoning framework and draft regulations are expected to ensure implementation. 
•    Engineering and infrastructure: 
o    The selected consultant team (this could include an engineering sub-consultant) should work closely with the city engineer in developing a detailed assessment of infrastructure, needed upgrades, opportunities, or impediments to development in the focus area. 
o    This work is expected to be closely coordinated with the land use planning elements of the focus area plan to ensure that an all-inclusive and executable vision emerges which is aligned and accounts for any needed capital improvements. 
•    Specific implementation elements: 
o    The plan should contain specific recommendations for potential future land use, utilization of financial tools such as TIF, NCA, etc., and potential utilization of the industry and commerce corporation including any land banking opportunities.

- Non-Mandatory Pre-Proposal Conference Date: July 18, 2025
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: July 22, 2025