[Consultantservices] [Consultant Services] RFQ posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:05 AM

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Request for Qualifications - Consultant Services

Integrated Downtown Master Plan
The Village of Tinley Park, Illinois
submittal Deadline: August 15, 2008

The Village of Tinley Park seeks the services of a qualified consultant
team with considerable ability in the areas of urban design, landscape
architecture, transportation planning, citizen
involvement/participation, and engineering to develop an integrated
master plan for Downtown Tinley Park, Illinois.

Overview
The plan is expected to be a detailed design plan that will guide the
future development of Tinley Park's downtown. The plan will include: a
highly graphic development plan and maps, a poster-sized version of the
plan to be used in publicizing the plan, a written implementation
strategy, and policy recommendations. The plan process should include
innovative and exciting methodologies for citizen participation.

A high quality plan for the downtown is a top priority and The Village
has substantial resources to dedicate to this project. The intention of
The Village is to adopt a plan that synthesizes community goals with
previous plans and efforts to create a clear guide and predicable
framework that is useful to citizens, Village decision-makers, and
developers. The plan will serve as a powerful graphic tool for
visualizing preferred downtown development. The plan should be detailed
enough to address the immediate needs of the Village and dynamic enough
to serve as a guide for the next 5-20 years. The successful applicants
to this Request for Qualifications will exhibit visionary and integrated
thinking from several fields of study, patience and appreciation of our
community's business and volunteer base, concern and knowledge about
walkability and traffic calming, and tremendous skill in urban design
and transportation planning.

Study Area and Characteristics
Tinley Park is a growing community of approximately 70,000 residents
located in Chicago's southwest suburbs. The community is located along
the I-80 corridor and is served by two Metra Stations, one of which is
downtown. The Village has implemented a vigorous downtown improvement
policy over the last ten years that has resulted in the creation of
several Tax Increment Finance (TIF) districts, the incenting of new
private development, the construction of a new train station, and a
on-going focus on creating a vital and thriving downtown that is
pedestrian-friendly and transit-oriented.

The study area contains both the core of Tinley Park's downtown (Oak
Park Avenue from 173rd Street to 175th Street), as well as two
"transitional" areas - Oak Park Avenue North and Oak Park Avenue South. 

Project Purpose
The Village has identified parking and transportation planning as major
issues, but seeks to implement a transportation plan that is based in
urban design concepts and the development of a pedestrian friendly
downtown. The term "integrated" in the title of The Plan is to
accentuate our desire to have a multi-disciplinary approach. The
downtown must be planned by a team of professionals that includes
architects, landscape architects, transportation planners, engineers,
and urban designers. The decisions the community makes about locations
of building impacts the development of streets and the network of public
utilities. The selected team will be a multi-disciplined group that can
work closely together to analyze the impact of alternatives, but shares
an overriding urban design philosophy.

Recent plans for new development over the last year have created a
demand by public officials for a more specific and multi-topical
downtown plan that ties together past plans and studies with a new
specific and detailed downtown design plan and implementation
strategies. The Village is particularly interested in the following
planning concepts and will want to see elements of these concepts in the
plans and responses to this RFQ: 

*	Walkability; 
*	Traffic calming; 
*	Form based planning and codes; 
*	Transit oriented development; 
*	Urban downtown forms, discontinuation of strip development
patterns; 
*	Environmental efficiency (Neighborhood LEED); 
*	Streetscape and landscape design to improve downtown character,
walkability, and viewsheds; and 
*	Architectural standards. 

The Village is not seeking cookie-cutter solutions or a plan based in
describing land use concepts in text. The Village desires an innovative
and graphics based plan that can communicate design concepts to
non-design professionals.

Interested firms must register and download the RFQ by visiting the
Village's website at http://www.tinleypark.org
<http://www.tinleypark.org/> .. The deadline for RFQ responses is August
15, 2008 and a pre-submission meeting, that can be attended in person or
by conference call, will be held on August 8, 2008. 

 

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