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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to accept award and execute all necessary documents with the California Department of Conservation relating to a $929,000 grant awarded to the Department of Development Services for professional planning services to prepare a new development code for the Southeast Area Development and Improvement Plan planning area (SEADIP);
Authorize City Manager to execute a contract with The Planning Center/DC&E for an amount not to exceed $1,376,638 to prepare the new development code for SEADIP and the accompanying Environmental Impact Report;
Increase appropriations in the General Grants Fund (SR 120) in the Department of Development Services (DV) by $929,000; and
Increase appropriations in the Development Services Fund (SR 137) in the Department of Development Services (DV) by $447,638. (District 3)
DISCUSSION
The Strategic Growth Council of the California Department of Conservation has awarded the City of Long Beach a grant under its Sustainable Communities Planning Grant and Incentive Program. This grant program is intended to assist local governments meet the challenges of adopting land use plans and integrating strategies to transform communities and create long-term prosperity. The grant will be used to offset the majority of the costs to prepare a comprehensive land use update to the Southeast Area Development and Improvement Plan area (SEADIP), a 1,500 acre portion of east Long Beach centered on the 2nd Street and Pacific Coast Highway intersection (Exhibit A - SEADIP Map). The grant will also pay for the subsequent update to the City’s Local Coastal Program (LCP).
In order to proceed with acceptance of this grant, the City is required to select a consultant and negotiate a scope of services consistent with the grant requirements. As such, staff released a comprehensive Request for Proposals (RFP) in January 2013. The RFP was posted on the City’s Purchasing website, and all responses were required to ad...
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