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Request for Proposals - Consultant Services

Comprehensive Plan
The City of Forney, Texas
Submittal Deadline: June 5, 2007

The City of Forney, Texas is soliciting proposals for professional
planning services for a major update of the City's Comprehensive Plan.
The Comprehensive Plan will include but may not be limited to the
following Project Tasks. 

*	Existing Information Review 
*	Data Analysis 
*	Citizen Participation 
*	Future Land Use 
*	Growth Management Goals and Policies 
*	Thoroughfare Plan 
*	Greenways, Parks, Recreation and Open Space 
*	Existing and Projected Housing Needs 
*	Economic Development, Redevelopment and Reinvestment Zones 
*	Public Safety/Public Facilities 
*	Downtown Redevelopment/Cultural Overlay Zone/Heritage Districts 
*	U.S. Highway 80 Corridor Overlay Zone 
*	Subdivision Regulations Critique and Re-Write Assistance 
*	Implementation 

The City expects a complete overhaul of its Comprehensive Plan that
provides strategies to encourage economic development, quality
residential growth, and general improvement of the quality of life for
the City's residents and businesses. A new Comprehensive Plan will build
on the successes of the past while taking a fresh look at both the
city's potential for growth and the challenges that lie ahead.  The
current planning process is intended to build better understanding of
the potential growth impacts of different policies toward regulation of
the private sector and investments in the public sector. A new
comprehensive plan will provide a substantive basis for decision making
and establish a specific action plan that reflects the goals and
objectives of the community. It will be a document that recognizes the
character, cooperative spirit, and quality of life for which Forney is
recognized.

The respondent shall submit a proposed general process for the project
using past experience and best practices in similar communities. The new
comprehensive plan should address in detail a planning horizon of
2007-2015 and provide general guidance for a planning horizon of
2015-2025.

Copies of the complete Request for Proposals can be obtained at the
Community Development Department, 114 East Main, P.O. Box 826, Forney,
Texas 75126, 469-689-0004x18.  Copies may also be obtained from the
Planning and Development Department's web site www.cityofforney.org
<http://www.cityofforney.org/> . Questions about the Request for
Proposals can be directed to Kathryn Nilssen at:
Knilssen at cityofforney.org <mailto:Knilssen at cityofforney.org>
469-689-0004x18, 114 East Main, P.O. Box 826 Forney, Texas 75126 

 

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