[Consultantservices] [Consultant Services] RFP posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 2:04 p.m.

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Request for Proposals - Consultant Services

General Plan and CEQA Compliance
The City of Redwood City, California 
Submittal Deadline: June 13, 2007

The City of Redwood City (City) is soliciting proposals from
professional planning and environmental consulting firms to assist in
the preparation of a new General Plan and associated environmental
review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).  The new
General Plan will replace the current Strategic General Plan that dates
back to 1990.  The City is seeking proposals from firms that specialize
in comprehensive plan preparation and programmatic environmental
analysis.  Consultant firms are encouraged to form teams to provide a
comprehensive resource to the City.   Firms must have experience and
expertise in California planning and environmental review laws.

Redwood City is a diverse community of 76,000 people located on the San
Francisco Peninsula mid-way between San Francisco and San Jose.  The
City began its General Plan update process in 2004-05 with visioning
workshops and the development of Guiding Principles and a Vision
Statement.  The General Plan will consist of the seven state-mandated
Elements (Land Use, Circulation, Housing, Conservation, Open Space,
Noise, and Safety) and seven optional Elements (Historic Resources,
Water Supply, Infrastructure, Economic Development, Human Services,
Child Care, and Civic Culture).  Five Elements have already been
completed by City staff in draft form and have undergone conceptual
review by the Planning Commission and City Council.  Other Elements are
in various stages of preparation by staff.

The General Plan work was put on hold to enable the City to focus on a
major planning effort, the renaissance of Redwood City's Downtown.  The
City has channeled major public and private investment into Downtown,
and has recently adopted the Downtown Precise Plan, which is a
form-based code reflecting the principles of "new urbanism" as a
philosophy for the Downtown renaissance.  Now that the Precise Plan
adoption process is completed, the City is eager to re-establish and
re-invigorate the General Plan process.  The City is seeking to adopt a
new General Plan that represents state-of-the-art thinking and
approaches to both the content and format of the Plan, so that it will
be equally as exciting and forward-thinking as the Downtown Precise
Plan.  The Plan will express the City's vision for its physical,
economic, social, and community development through the year 2025.

Copies of the RFP may be obtained from the Redwood City Planning
Division, 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA  94064, or by calling
Kristina Mateo (Planning Division Secretary) at 650-780-7234 to request
a copy.  Proposals are due at the address above no later than 5:00 p.m.
on June 13, 2007.   A briefing on the project is scheduled for May 29,
2007 at 1:30 p.m. at the City Hall Council Chambers at the address
above.   Six copies of the proposal are to be submitted.

Questions concerning this project should be directed to Jill Ekas, AICP,
Planning Manager at 650-780-7298 or jekas at redwoodcity.org
<mailto:jekas at redwoodcity.org> . 

 

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