REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action on the Award of Contract to BrightView Landscape Services, Inc. for Landscaping Services for Eight (8) Lawrence Station Area Plan Parks
Report
COUNCIL PILLARS
Enhance Community Sports, Recreational and Arts Assets
Deliver and Enhance High-Quality Efficient Services and Infrastructure
Manage Strategically Our Workforce Capacity and Resources
BACKGROUND
On November 29, 2016, the City Council adopted the Lawrence Station Area Plan ("Plan") and Environmental Impact Report, along with the associated General Plan and Zoning Ordinance Amendments. The Plan features a transit-oriented development and provides needed public improvements and facilities for residents. To maintain the unique, high quality and non-standard facilities as well as avoid the potential impact on the City's General Fund, the Plan indicated an option for funding the long-term maintenance of such improvements through a Community Facilities District (CFD), a land-secured financing mechanism.
On March 5, 2019, Council adopted a Resolution of Intention No. 19-8674 to form Community Facilities District 2019-1 (Lawrence Station) and Future Annexation Area to finance certain public services. These services primarily include maintenance of roadways, parks, parking spaces and enforcement, landscaped parkways and medians, trails, a highway overpass, a community clubhouse and garden to be located within the development.
There are currently eight mini park parcels, totaling 3.26 acres of parkland, within the Plan Area (Attachment 1); additional park parcels will be developed in the future. Zones one and two require consistent landscape maintenance, including mowing, edging, irrigation system maintenance, trash removal, tree and shrub care, etc. (Attachment 2). The Parks & Recreation Department determined that the best method for strategically managing and maintaining the unique, high quality and non-standard park facilities within the CFD would be to select a commerc...
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