City Council
MEETING DATE: 7/25/2018
TITLE:
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Progress Update on the General Plan, Imagine 2040
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FROM:
Pat Milos, Community Development Director
John Criste, Terra Nova
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Receive and consider a staff presentation on the progress of the Cathedral City General Plan Update, Imagine 2040.
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BACKGROUND:
The City adopted the current General Plan on July 31, 2002 and updated portions of it in 2009.
During the City Council's Strategic Planning Session held on January 28, 2017, Council discussed the importance and timeliness of updating the General Plan and directed Staff to adopt it as a goal for 2017.
During the biennial budgeting process for fiscal year 2017/18 and 2018/19 the General Plan Update was assigned as a Capital Improvement Program Project with total expected funding of $450,000 over a three-year period including Fiscal years 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20. The biennial budget was adopted by the City Council on May 5, 2017.
On September 14, 2017 Staff issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Professional Planning Services for a General Plan Update and an associated Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The RFP was publicly noticed in the Desert Sun newspaper, circulated among the local American Planning Association periodicals and e-mailed directly to 18 local planning consultant firms as well as placed on the City web-site.
Proposals in response to the RFP were accepted at City Hall on October 16, 2017. The City received a total of 2 responses. The proposal from Terra Nova Planning and Research, Inc. was the highest rated proposal in the RFP process.
On December 13, 2017 the City Council approved a recommendation to authorize a Professional Services Agreement with Terra Nova Planning and Research, Inc. for the update of the Cathedral City General Plan and associated Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and the development of an Active Transportation and NEV (Neighborhood Electric Vehicle) Plan; and authoriz...
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