The vendor required to provide comprehensive planning consulting services for include:
• Promote mixed land uses where appropriate.
• Create an adequate range of housing opportunities and choices.
• Promote development where infrastructure is adequate and sustainable.
• Build on the existing traits that give city a sense of place.
• Promote public spaces.
• Promote mobility and circulation within city and connectivity to neighboring places.
• Promote mass transit.
• Promote walkable and bikeable neighborhood designs
• Stimulate the economy through visitor-ship
• Integrate clean energy resources using incentives.
• Improve resiliency to extreme weather events.
• Encourage social diversity and integration.
• Expand planning and implementation efforts across jurisdictional lines.
• Promote community and stakeholder collaboration in planning.
• Promote fiscally responsible and financially sustainable policies
- Project management and advisory committee
• Create a task-based work plan with goals to guide the planning process to a timely completion.
• The consultant and the city will also schedule recurring advisory committee meetings during the planning process to advance the preparation, review, and approval of the comprehensive plan, and to organize and conduct community participation events.
- Community participation plan
• Consultant team will prepare a community participation plan for city and dos review that describes the public outreach and participation efforts that will be conducted during the development of the comprehensive plan.
• Engagement activities required by various grants may occur simultaneously, though in some cases engagement activities might necessarily be specific to certain focus areas, such as housing.
• Provide a consistent look and feel for the comprehensive planning process to support communications.
• The community participation plan shall include in-person or virtual interviews with local and regional stakeholders, a community survey, one or more public information meetings, one or more public workshops, one or more public hearings, and a webpage with links to announcements, presentations and documents prepared during the planning process.
- Budget: $500,000
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: December 18, 2025
