03-26-07 Item 7G, City Comp Plan Update Consulting Services

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Memorandum prepared in Task 4.1 as the basis for the preparation of the plan chapters. Deliverables: Thefollowing deliverables will be part of Task 4 o Technical Memorandum outlining planning issues and assumptions o Materials required for Community Workshop #2 o Summary of Workshop #2 o Modified Technical Memorandum Staff Responsibilities: o Participating in the planning issues meeting. o Advertising Community Workshop #2. o Send out Planning Commission/City Council meeting materials. o Preparation of meeting notes from the Planning Commission/City Council meeting. Task S Develop Draft Comprehensive Plan and Supporting Implementation Strategies This task is focused on applying the information generated through Task 4 to efforts to draft various sections of the Comprehensive Plan. The Plan will include applicable supporting public policies and strategic implementation initiatives. The draft Plan will be a readable, illustrative document with maps, photographs, sketches, diagrams and supporting narrative to allow people to fully understand the direction established by the Plan. It will also provide the requisite technical information to ensure that public actions needed to implement the Plan are clear and achievable. For purposes of this Work Program, the content of the Comprehensive Plan update is anticipated to match that of the 1998 Plan. In order to make the plan more readable and "user friendly", HKGi will work with City staff to restructure the organization of the plan and establish an overall graphic style and format. This task will be a collaborative effort between HKGi, URS, SEH and City staff as noted in the respective subtasks that follow. AJ;; available, the Plan will incorporate newly prepared plans for the TCAAP area addressing land use, transportation, utilities, parks and surface water management. Other chapters will be created as needed to support the results of the planning process. 5.1 Chapter 1: Introduction. City staff will update Chapter 1. 5.2 Chapter 2: Overall Goals. Community goals will be presented in the corresponding plan chapters consistent with the format of the 1998 Plan. 5.3 Chapter 3: Land Use. City staff will assume the lead role in the preparation of the land use chapter of the plan. The land use plan will address the desired locations and mixes of residential, commercial, industrial, office, institutional, mixed-use, public and semi-public uses. In text and graphic forms, the land use chapter will illustrate the future land use pattern, illustrate desired development forms and illustrate specific development/redevelopment areas. It will discuss the relationship and impacts of the future development of the TCAAP property. HKGi will assist City staff in land use policy directions and in assembling vignettes for potential future redevelopment areas illustrating future alternative uses.