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City of Ithaca Comprehensive Plan
Request for Qualifications
City of Ithaca Comprehensive Plan
The City of Ithaca, New York seeks qualifications from firms interested in working with the City on the preparation of a
comprehensive plan. The selected firm will work with the City’s Comprehensive Plan Committee, staff, and the public to develop the first phase of a two-phase comprehensive plan. Interested firms must have experience with conducting extensive public processes that incorporate a variety of means of participation.
The City's existing comprehensive plan was completed in 1971 and has since been augmented fourteen times by various targeted neighborhood and strategic plans. While some of the broader objectives of this plan may still be applicable, many are not. Both local conditions and national and world-wide trends that effect Ithaca have changed dramatically since the adoption of the 1971 plan, resulting in a need to prepare a new comprehensive plan to address present-day issues at the local level.
The undertaking of a comprehensive plan comes at the initiative of Mayor Carolyn Peterson, first expressed in her 2004 “State of the City” address and later with the appointment of a “pre-planning” committee in February 2007. After several months of discussion, that committee proposed a two-step process for the creation of a new comprehensive plan. Phase 1, the subject of this RFQ, entails the preparation of a citywide plan. Phase 2 will include the subsequent preparation of specific neighborhood plans and other distinct thematically-based plans that will be identified in Phase 1. Based on this proposal from the pre-planning committee, the Common Council approved a capital project to prepare Phase 1.
Respondents must submit a letter of interest and other requested information regarding qualifications by 4:30 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time) on Friday, July 10, 2009. For questions, please contact Leslie Chatterton, Neighborhood Planner, by email at lesliec@cityofithaca.org or by phone at (607) 274-6555.
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