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RFP-Planning Consultant Services-125

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City of Long Beach
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

 

  1. INTRODUCTION

 

The City of Long Beach, New York, seeks the services of a qualified planning consultant to work with and assist the Planning Advisory Board of the City of Long Beach in preparing a comprehensive review, rewrite and update to the City’s Comprehensive Plan (“Plan”).  The current Plan was adopted on April 4, 2007.  The update of the Plan would address new and future planning issues.  The Plan will guide future growth, redevelopment, zoning changes and support many grant proposals.

 

The Comprehensive Plan is the culmination of a planning process that establishes the official land use policy of a community and presents goals and a vision for the future that guides official decision making. The Comprehensive Plan invariably includes a thorough analysis of current data showing land development trends and issues, community resources, and public needs for transportation, recreation, and housing.

 

The Plan is the foundation for determining effective public policy, master planning and land use decisions for the future, and will provide an ongoing framework for informed and directed development.  The Plan shall include goals, objectives and strategies, utilize maps, graphs and other imagery tools to analyze, assess and recommend best practices for value-based planning, economic development, housing, infrastructure, and other improvements. The responsibility of the Plan is to reflect and respond to the priorities, values and requirements of Long Beach residents, safeguarding the City’s history, community character, environmental resources, while supporting the conditions for short and long term needs and desires of the City.

The City of Long Beach is situated on a barrier island, just off the south shore of Long Island.  It is one of only two fully-autonomous cities on Long Island, spread across two square miles.  By the beach on the oceanfront there is a 2 ¼ mile long boardwalk, where both in winter and summer, one can find people walking, jogging and riding bicycles. The adjacent beach is a 3.5 mile stretch of pure white sand open to the public year round, attracting tens of thousands of visitors during the summer season.

The City of Long Beach currently has a population of about 35,000 and about 17,000 households spread across two square miles of land surrounded by water. Approximately 3,850 children attend Long Beach schools. The three major downtown shopping areas along Park Avenue and along West Beech Street are the hubs of commercial activity.

The bay side of the community is lined with homes and private docks. Waterfront homes can also be found in an area called the Canals.  Man-made extensions were created when canals were dug connecting areas of Long Beach to the bay. In fact, no home is more than a few hundred yards from the water as Long Beach is only half a mile wide at its widest point.

In terms of housing, Long Beach offers one of the widest ranges of living styles on Long Island. Condominiums and co-ops, which include all kinds of self-contained recreational facilities, can be found along a portion of the oceanfront. New homes embodying the latest architectural designs can be seen along with the older gracious dwellings which were built in the 1930’s. Older smaller homes are also found throughout the City which once were seasonal summer homes, but now serve as year round residences.   Long Beach is still going through revitalization and redevelopment since the devastation of Superstorm Sandy (2012).