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Request for Proposals - Consultant Services

Making Central Avenue Great Plan Update
City of Minneapolis Department of Community Planning and Economic
Development, Minnesota
Submittal Deadline: June 22, 2007

Project Description 
The City of Minneapolis Department of Community Planning and Economic
Development (CPED), Planning Division is requesting proposals for the
preparation of an update to the "Making Central Avenue Great" plan.  A
copy of the existing plan can be found online at:
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/planning/Central_Ave_Plan_Update.asp
<http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/planning/Central_Ave_Plan_Update.asp> .

The purpose of the plan update is to provide the City with a detailed
future land use policy direction for Central Avenue.  Central Avenue is
a designated corridor within the City's Comprehensive Plan with a
broad-range set of applicable policies.  A greater level of detail with
regards to future land use, design, and development scale and massing
for this corridor needs to be developed.  A lot of groundwork was
accomplished with the original "Making Central Avenue Great" Plan.
Future work must build on the existing policies of the Comprehensive
Plan and the work completed to date by the Northeast neighborhoods
through the original plan.  Completion of project must occur by March
2008.  The geographic extent of the study is Central Avenue from 7th
Avenue NE to 37th Avenue NE.  This is the same geographic segment that
was covered in the original plan.

Scope of Services

Community Engagement

*	Design and implement an intensive public input process to
develop a future vision for future land use and development along
Central Avenue.  The City encourages the use of innovative or unique
methods for community engagement and urges the proposal to include fresh
ideas for this project.  At a minimum, community engagement should
include the following components in order to find out the needs and
desires of the community: 

	*	Broader Community 

		*	Visioning process 
		*	Community meetings 
		*	Surveys 
		*	Focus groups for stakeholder groups with
particular attention to the diverse populations that comprise the
Northeast community 

	*	Steering Committee 

		*	Multiple small-scale presentations of work
product throughout process 

Policy Analysis, Data Collection and Technical Work

*	Review existing plan documents, studies, and reports and assess
the status and effectiveness of plan implementation for Central Avenue 
*	Develop and incorporate a future land use map into the plan that
can acknowledge existing market forces but also can help sustain a
long-term future vision for the corridor 
*	Evaluate existing zoning and make recommendations for changes
based on policy direction 
*	Future employment and population density - clearly articulate
optimal preferred design, scale, and massing of overall development as
well as key components such as commercial square footage and housing
units per acre 
*	Develop and incorporate a transportation component into the plan
building on the existing guidance for Central Avenue as detailed in the
"Access Minneapolis: 10-Year Transportation Plan" 
*	Integrate recommendations and strategies from the Northeast Arts
Action Plan into the updated plan document 
*	Identification of and analysis of redevelopment potential for
key sites along corridor based on market conditions and community
preferences 

Implementation and Evaluation

*	Prioritization of key sites and improvements in relation to a
short and long-term implementation timeframe 
*	Develop evaluation measurements for gauging short and long-term
plan implementation both 

Project Deliverables 

*	Updated overall plan document with graphics in both paper, cd,
and electronic PDF and editable formats 
*	Future land use map in ArcGIS format 
*	Future development intensity map in ArcGIS format 
*	Written feasibility analysis for potential sites for development
and/or redevelopment as part of overall plan document 

Department Contact
All questions and requests for information regarding this RFP should be
directed to:

Jennifer Jordan, Principal City Planner
Department of Community Planning and Economic Development
Planning Division
350 South 5th Street, Room 210
Minneapolis, MN  55415 
Jennifer.jordan at ci.minneapolis.mn.us
<mailto:Jennifer.bever at ci.minneapolis.mn.us> 
(F) 612-673-2728

The full RFP is available at
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/planning/Central_Ave_Plan_Update.asp
<http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/planning/Central_Ave_Plan_Update.asp> 

 

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