CITY OF SAN ANTONIO
PLANNING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
AUDIT COMMITTEE
INTERDEPARTMENTAL MEMO
TO: Sheryl Sculley, City Manager
FROM: Bridgett White, Director, Department of Planning & Community Development
COPY: Audit Committee; Peter Zanoni, Deputy City Manager; Ben Gorzell, CPA, Chief Financial Officer; Troy Elliott, CPA, Deputy Chief Financial Officer; Kevin Barthold, City Auditor
SUBJECT: Post-Solicitation Briefing for SA Tomorrow Area Planning Services
DATE: February 21, 2017
The solicitation process has been completed for the SA Tomorrow Area Planning program which will result in the development of the first six master plans throughout the City of San Antonio. The Planning program will implement the land use framework of the SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan.
The City's SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan emphasizes the need to strategically focus employment and housing growth in the City's thirteen Regional Centers and align land use planning and infrastructure investment with economic development. These centers will be planned to offer a wide variety of employment-oriented uses, sites, infrastructure and amenities. Some also can be developed into vibrant, mixed-use areas that offer the live-work-play environments that are attracting development and businesses nationally, but are lacking in San Antonio. This project will consist of a significant community outreach effort; an "Areas of Change" and "Areas of Stability" analysis; development of a land use plan; an Infrastructure and Amenity Improvement Plan; and an Implementation Action Plan.
The value of this contract is $1,045,000 for a two-year term with two, one-year renewal options. The high-level scope of services includes an Areas of Change/Stability Analysis; Land Use Plan Development; Infrastructure and Amenity Improvement Strategy; an Implementation Plan; and a Public Engagement Strategy for each of the six areas. The evaluation criteria applied to this RFQ was based on a 100 point scale: 35 poin...
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