REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action on Amendment No. 5 with Wallace Roberts and Todd, LLC for Downtown Precise Plan Infrastructure Fee Services to Extend the Term until December 31, 2025
Report
COUNCIL PILLAR
Promote and Enhance Economic, Housing, and Transportation Development
BACKGROUND
The City has completed the planning effort to prepare a Downtown Precise Plan and Form Based Code to guide the redevelopment of the City's former Downtown area. The Plan and Code were adopted on December 5, 2023.
The scope of work for the Downtown Precise Plan included the development of an Area Impact Fee. The City hired a consultant, Wallace Roberts and Todd, LLC (WRT) who is responsible for preparing the technical documentation necessary for the development of an area development impact fee to cover the "fair share" cost of new infrastructure and public improvements serving the Precise Plan area. The purpose of this amendment is to extend an already approved contract until December 2025 so that staff can complete the impact fee for infrastructure. The infrastructure fee is related to improvements for new public streets, sidewalks, lighting, water and sewer.
The City's initial contract with WRT has been amended four times. Amendment No. 1 was approved by the City Council in May 2021. The first amendment to the consultant contract was to add the following services to the scope of work for the Downtown Precise Plan: 1) Form Based Zoning Code and Sign Ordinance; 2) Development Impact Fee; 3) Downtown Management Entity; and 4) additional Downtown Community Task Force Meetings.
Amendment No. 2 was approved by the City Council in December 2021. The second amendment to the consultant contract added the following services to the scope of work for the Downtown Precise Plan: 1) Consultant Team Charette; 2) Added stakeholder meetings; 3) Financial Feasibility of Land Use Options analysis; 4) Financial Memo Addendum to Existing Conditions Report; 5) Context Study; and 6) Addi...
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