Memo from City Manager to City Council regarding Recommendation to Award Contract for the Alameda Point Resource Team to Perkins + Will in the Amount of $200,000 for Land Use Planning Consulting Services, February 15, 2011

Memo Outline:

Background
.Vision and Project Description
.Plan Preparation and Entitlement Approvals

Discussion
.Conduct a workshop to educate and inform the community regarding proforma
.Conduct three sustainability workshops to educate and inform the community
about transportation , environmental, and financial and fiscal sustainability and
prepare related performance criteria that will be used to evaluate proposed
alternatives.
.Prepare materials and information for the community that will inform and enable
the community to understand the relative benefits and costs of different trade-offs
and relative strengths and weaknesses of different alternatives for Alameda
Point.
.Identify, describe , and illustrate a Vision and Project Description as well as three
other alternatives necessary to initiate the next phase of the planning process.

Existing Alameda Point Contracts
.Carlson Barbee Gibson (CBG) - Civil Engineering
.Russell Resources, Inc. - Environmental
.Holland & Knight (H&K) - Federal legislative Services
.City Design Collective (CDC) -- Community Outreach
.Urban Design Associates (UDA) - LBNL land Use Planning

Proposed Alameda Point Contracts
.Perkins + Wil (P+W) - land Use Planning
.Nelson/Nygaard (N/N) - Transportation Planning
.ARUP - Sustainability/"Green" Infrastructure Planning
.Real Estate Economics

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