Comprehensive Plan Services

The Vendor is required to provide create a new 20-year comprehensive plan, which would include an updated neighborhood land use plan, an updated and modernized zoning code (chapter 162) and an updated zoning map.
- Develop options and assist the city with a robust, innovative and dynamic public engagement process targeting residents, business owners, developers and civic organizations.
- That process should consist of:
• Project initiation and assessment
• Public and stakeholder engagement
• Zoning code evaluation
• Zoning map evaluation
• Adoption and implementation.
- Comprehensive plan update
• Analyze current demographic, economic and infrastructure data.
• Use information from the public engagement process to develop a unified community vision, goals and strategic policy.
• Create a clear future land use map that guides city growth for the next 20 years that includes the firm’s approach, project needs and planning trends for internal review and input.
• Staff will provide one consolidated set of feedback per draft chapter.
• The consultant is limited to two rounds of revisions per deliverable.
- Neighborhood land use plan
• Conduct focused data collection for a designated neighborhood experiencing unique transition or development pressures.
• Draft specific character, design and land-use recommendations tailored to this area, ensuring seamless integration into the broader comprehensive plan.
- Zoning code and zoning map overhaul
• Evaluate existing zoning ordinances against the new comprehensive plan goals to identify conflicts, gaps and structural issues.
• This should run concurrently with the final stages of comprehensive plan adoption.
• Draft a comprehensive, modern, graphic-heavy unified development ordinance (UDO) – a single document combining zoning regulations, subdivision rules and development standards into a centralized rulebook – that utilizes clear diagrams, dimensional cross-sections and matrices.
• Test the newly drafted udo against 5 to 10 local property profiles (such as downtown infill, a commercial corridor strip or a standard residential lot) to catch unintended non-conformities before public presentation.
• Draft a clean updated zoning map: all deliverables must match the specific software formatting requirements for the county interactive GIS map viewer.