Vendor needs to provide comprehensive plan service to the government authority located in Rapid City, SD.
- Considerable experience in community design, land use, environmental planning, economic analysis, and community engagement.
- The consultants will work with the Community Development Department to facilitate public engagement and confirm or re-confirm goals, objectives, and recommendations within the plan elements.
- To establish a relationship with a qualified consult to conduct the 10-year update to city Comprehensive Plan. The Plan shall refine the vision for the community.
- In addition, the consultants will lead an update to the Community Profile, analyze and update the Future Land Use Plan, and recommend planning frameworks for future neighborhood and planning areas and priority corridor planning in order to respond to community needs.
- Continue with redevelopment of Downtown Rapid City, including the Innovation District;
- Prioritize strategies to respond to housing needs and changing demographics;
- Implement land use and policy tools which promote efficient delivery and maintenance of infrastructure, fiscally sustainable development, and mechanisms to reduce urban sprawl and its associated costs;
- Deliver programs, projects, and policies which advance equity, inclusivity and quality of life community wide;
- Expand investment in recreation, culture, and the arts for the benefit of residents and visitors;
- Develop a diversified economy which creates opportunities and a healthy workforce;
- Practice conservation and stewardship of land and natural resources for a healthy and resilient environment and economy;
- Enhance coordination between leadership in joint jurisdictional areas to respond to regional growth demands in an orderly fashion.
1. Review Plans
- Comprehensive Plan in its entirety and subsequent plan amendments including the Coordinated Transit-Human Services Plan, Metropolitan Transportation Plan, Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan, Sixth and Omaha Pedestrian Crossing, Transit Development Plan, Downtown Area Master Plan, Cultural Plan, Historic Preservation Plan, City and Area Housing Study, and similar land use plans.
2. Public Engagement
- This strategy will be consistent with the agency Public Participation Plan and an outreach program will be conducted to involve the elderly, persons with disabilities, minorities, the low-income community and other groups traditionally under-represented in the planning process.
- The approach should include a broad array of methods which incorporate a Study Advisory Team and arts-based practices throughout. This can include traditional approaches such as staff interviews, additional steering committee/s, surveys, charrettes, social media, and virtual based strategies.
- The consultant must identify a community engagement strategy which leverages our unique local artistic and cultural resources in ways that bring people together to guide policy making and the planning process.
- Assess Goals and Values. Re-visit the Vision and Core Values and retain, revise, remove as applicable based on the public engagement process.
4. Update the Community Profile. Perform research, analysis, and projections to update population growth, socioeconomic, housing, growth, and economic data for a 10 and 20-year planning horizon.
5. Land Use Assessment. Assess the Future Land Use Map, Land Use Designations including their definitions and purposes, their associated current zoning districts, and the acreages within each by neighborhood area.
6. Evaluate and Expand Guidance on Neighborhood Areas.
- The 2014 Comprehensive Plan established Neighborhood Areas, Goals, and Policies.
7. Reformat and Redesign the plan.
- The City seeks formatting solutions which improve user-friendliness, accessibility and makes easier subsequent administrative updates to the Plan.
8. Identify Sprawl Reduction Strategies.
- The 2014 Comprehensive Plan prioritized a compact development pattern. In an effort to continually promote fiscally sustainable development, the City seeks policy guidance on sprawl reduction strategies including: joint jurisdictional coordination, infill incentives, greenfield strategies, and methods to plan and deliver urban infrastructure and services which reduce sprawl and its associated costs.
9. Plan Adoption.
- Following acceptance by the project Study Advisory Team, the consultant shall present the plan in person to the Planning Commission, agency committees, and City Council for full adoption as required by ordinance and South Dakota State Statute.
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