City of San Antonio - File #: 14-2348

• File #: 14-2348
• Type: Misc - Professional Services Agreements
• In control: City Council A Session
• On agenda: 10/9/2014
• Posting Language: An Ordinance for the City’s Comprehensive Plan authorizing a professional services agreement with Moore Iacofano Goltsman, Inc. for consultant services pertaining to the Plan’s development and related public outreach efforts in the amount not to exceed $250,000.00 from prior City Council approved and budgeted funds. [Peter Zanoni, Deputy City Manager; John Dugan, Director, Planning & Community Development]
• Related files: 15-3592

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/9/2014	1	City Council A Session	adopted	Pass

DEPARTMENT: Department of Planning & Community Development


DEPARTMENT HEAD: John Dugan


COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide


SUBJECT:

PlanSA 2040 Comprehensive Plan Consultant Contract Award


SUMMARY:

An Ordinance authorizing the execution of a professional services agreement with Moore Iacofano Goltsman, Inc. (MIG), in the amount not to exceed $250,000.00 for consultant services pertaining to the City's Comprehensive Plan for the plan development and community outreach, from prior City Council approval and budgeted funding.


BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

Project Background
The City of San Antonio is projected to grow significantly over the next two decades and ascertaining how to accommodate that growth is the driving objective of the City's Comprehensive Plan. Currently, the city and region is in need of an overarching policy and plan to accommodate and guide the distribution of projected growth. The City is currently engaged in an effort to update the Comprehensive Master Plan that was initially adopted in 1997. The current effort will help articulate the future growth of the City of San Antonio and its Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and plan for the provision of services required for new development and population growth. The Comprehensive Plan needs to be a regionally referenced plan that takes into consideration San Antonio's unique attributes, most notably: its footprint that includes hundreds of square miles (land use/transportation development); and its climate (arid) and the climate's impact on natural resources that will be needed to sustain the projected population growth, acknowledging the fact that resources are already strained (i.e., water.)

In Fiscal Year 2013, City Council allocated $250,000 to begin Phase I of the Comprehensive Plan which was to undertake initial background studies needed to inform the comprehensive planning process. City Council authorized a contract with Economic and Planning Systems, INC. to ...