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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESPONSE - RFP - P868 URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING SERVICES (5)PROPOSAL. FOR URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING SERVICES City of Fort Collins, Colorado November 22, 2002 C L A R 1 0 N C L A R 1 O N Appendix: Resumes Fort Collins Planning Services 1 8 C L A R I O N Benjamin A. Herman, AICP Clarion Associates Ben Herman is Vice President of Clarion Associates of Colorado, LLC, a national consulting firm with offices in Chicago, Denver, Snowmass Village, Fort Collins, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati. The firm emphasizes land use planning and zoning, growth management techniques, market analysis, appraisal, and real estate consulting. Clarion's clients include numerous local governments and private sector clients throughout Colorado and the West, as well as the rest of the United States. Mr. Herman is a Land Use Planner with more than 24 years of professional experience in all aspects of land use and environmental planning. He has been responsible for managing and conducting complex, multi -disciplinary assignments for both private and public sector clients. Mr. Herman's areas of expertise include preparation of land use master plans for communities and regions; land use analyses and development feasibility studies; growth management strategies; and preparation of land use ordinances. He has extensive experience in planning assignments involving local, state, and federal regulatory agencies. MAJOR PROJECTS • Northern Colorado I-25 Corridor Plan • Arapahoe County, Colorado Comprehensive Plan • Fort Collins, Colorado City Plan • Denver Light Rail Station Development Program • Northern Colorado Regional Land Use Plan • Mason Street Multi -Modal Corridor Plan, Fort Collins, Colorado PROFESSIONAL HISTORY • Director of Planning, Balloffet and Associates, Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado • Principal, BHA Design, Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado • Managing Director, EDAW Australia Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Australia • Senior Associate/Director of Operations, EDAW, Inc., Denver, CO • Assistant Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton, NJ • Senior Associate, R.E. Hughey and Associates, Inc., Margate, NJ EDUCATION B.S., Environmental Studies and Planning, Stockton College of New Jersey PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS • Member, American Institute of Certified Planners • Member, American Planning Association • President, Colorado Chapter of American Planning Association (1996-1998) • Member, American Planning Association Chapter Presidents Council C L A R 1 O N Qualifications of Christopher J. Duerksen Clarion Associates Chris Duerksen is Managing Director of Clarion Associates of Colorado, a land -use practice concentrated in growth management and zoning, natural resource protection, and historic preservation. He has a real estate consulting practice concentrated in market feasibility studies, appraisals, airport -area development, and heritage tourism projects. Mr. Duerksen serves as a land -use and zoning consultant to numerous local governments across the United States including Henderson, Nevada; Longmont, Colorado; Hudson, Ohio; St. Louis, Missouri; Cary, North Carolina; and Flagstaff, Arizona. EDUCATION Juris Doctor - University of Chicago Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude - Kansas State College Ford Foundation Local Government Fellowship - City of Oak Park, Illinois PUBLICATIONS Author or co-author of five major books on historic preservation law, environmental regulation of siting of major industrial facilities, river conservation, and national parks. Other publications include four major planning advisory service reports for the American Planning Association (aesthetic land -use regulation, the "taking" issue, wildlife habitat protection, and tree conservation) and dozens of monographs and articles in journals. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Member of the Illinois Bar American Planning Association CIVIC INVOLVEMENT AND HONORS Founder, President and Chairman of the Board, Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute (nonprofit educational, service, and research organization) at Denver University School of Law Former Chair, American Bar Association Committee on Land Use, Planning, & Zoning C L A R I O N Qualifications of Lesli Kunkle Ellis Clarion Associates Lesli Kunkle Ellis is an Associate Planner of Clarion Associates of Colorado. She is a land use planner and licensed landscape architect with more than nine years of professional experience in land use planning and open space planning. Ms. Ellis has been responsible for conducting complex projects as a public sector planner and for public sector clients. She coordinated the Santa Fe County Open Lands and Trails Program, a planning effort including a $12 million land acquisition program. Ms. Ellis' areas of expertise include open lands and trails planning, land use regulations diagnosis and drafting, preparation of community plans, GIS- based planning inventories and analysis maps, and highway corridor planning. MAJOR PROJECTS • Evans Comprehensive Plan Update, Colorado • Englewood South Platte River Corridor — Open Space and Redevelopment Implementation Strategies, Colorado, present • Loudoun County Code Revisions, Virginia, present • Arapahoe County Comprehensive, Plan Code Diagnosis and Code Revisions, Colorado, present • I-25 Regional Corridor Plan, Colorado • Glenwood Meadows Site Plan and Design Standards, Colorado • City of Broomfield Open Space Plan Implementation Strategies, Colorado, present • Santa Fe County Open Lands and Trails Plan and Program Coordinator, Santa Fe, New Mexico • Santa Fe Metro Area Highway Corridor Plan, Santa Fe, New Mexico • Community College District Plan, Santa Fe, New Mexico • Poudre River Environmental Learning District Conceptual Land Use Plan, Fort Collins, Colorado • Town of Parker Open Space Plan, Colorado • City of Fort Collins, Parks and Recreation Master Plan, Colorado PROFESSIONAL HISTORY • Associate Planner, Clarion Associates, Fort Collins, Colorado, 2000 - present • Open Lands and Trails Program Coordinator/Planner III, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, 1997-2000 • Landscape Planner, EDAW, Seattle, Washington and Fort Collins, Colorado, 1995-1997 • Planner, McConnell/Burke, Inc., Bellevue, Washington, 1993-1994 • Legal Assistant, Crowell & Moring, Washington D.C., 1991-1992 EDUCATION Master of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle, 1996 Master of Urban Planning, University of Washington, Seattle, 1995 Bachelor of Environmental Design, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1991 RECENT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS Green Space Design Conference, Achieving our Green Visions Western Planner Conference, Partnering to Save Our Open Lands New Mexico Heritage Alliance Conference, Open Space Preservation 1000 Friends of New Mexico, Open Space in Santa Fe County PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS • Member, American Planning Association C L A R 1 O N Qualifications of Darcie L. White Clarion Associates Ms. White is an associate planner and landscape architect with five years of professional experience in land use and transportation planning, GIS, and urban design. She has been involved with projects at a variety of scales, ranging from community -wide land use plans and long-range regional plans to design standards for downtowns, redeveloping residential areas, and highway corridors. She also has experience with transportation plans, community visions, GIS-based planning inventories and analyses, multi -modal corridor and station area plans, illustrations, maps, and other visual materials for a range of local and state agencies throughout Colorado and the West. PROJECT EXPERIENCE The following projects are representative of Ms. White's experience • Fort Collins I-25 Subarea Plan, Fort Collins, Colorado • Northern Colorado I-25 Corridor Plan and Design Standards • West Corridor Light Rail Environmental Impact Statement, Lakewood/Golden, Colorado • Urban Design District Standards, Clayton, Missouri • Downtown Design Standards, Glenwood Springs, Colorado • Downtown Investment Strategy, Henderson, Nevada • City of Loveland Transportation Plan, Loveland, Colorado • Casper Area Comprehensive Plan, Wyoming • Flagstaff Westside Area Plan Update, Flagstaff, Arizona • Twin Falls Second Century Plan, Twin Falls, Idaho • US 36 Major Investment Study, Colorado • I-225 Major Investment Study, Denver, Colorado • City of Greenwood Village Comprehensive Plan, Greenwood Village, Colorado • Mason Street Multi -Modal Corridor Plan, Fort Collins, Colorado • Environmental Effects Guidelines, City of Westminster, Colorado • LRT Station Area Development Profiles, Portland, Oregon • Transit Oriented Development Case Studies, Portland, Oregon • Airport MAX LRT Extension Environmental Assessment, Portland, Oregon • Citywide Transit Map, Portland, Oregon PROFESSIONAL HISTORY • Associate, Clarion Associates of Colorado, LLC (current) • Planner/GIS Analyst, Balloffet & Associates, Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado • Planner II, Tri-County Metropolitan District, Portland, Oregon EDUCATION B.S., Landscape Architecture, Colorado State University PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS • Member, American Planning Association C L A R 1 O N Fort Collins Planning Services I i C L A R 1 O N Introduction Clarion Associates are pleased to submit our qualifications for urban and environmental planning services for the City of Fort Collins Community Planning and Environmental Services Administration. Clarion Associates is considered one of the leading planning and implementation firms in the region and nationally. A considerable portion of our project activities focus on getting plans and policy programs implemented. We have prepared subarea plans, prepared research assignments, drafted zoning ordinances, land use and design standards, and growth management strategies for communities throughout the United States including recent work in Fort Collins. Our strength as a firm in multiple areas will ensure that the resulting work products we are asked to produce will be of the highest quality standard. Clarion Associates personnel have a long history of providing effective planning services to the City of Fort Collins. Previous efforts have included: • City Plan (1997 Plan and current update) • City Plan Development Code Revisions • Mountain Vista Subarea Plan • 1-25 Subarea Plan (ongoing) • 1-25 Regional Corridor Plan and Design Standards • Plan for the Region Between Fort Collins and Loveland • Resource Recovery Farm Redevelopment Analysis • Natural Areas Buffers Standards Research • Growth Management Issues & Strategies Research (Optimal City Size, Growth Management Systems) Included in our submittal is a brief summary of our firm's qualifications and prior experience, resumes of key personnel, and billing rates for our services. Fort Collins Planning Services 1 1 C L A R 1 O N Qua lif iCafions and Key Personnel C L A R 1 O N Clarion is a national land -use consulting firm with offices in Fort Collins, Denver, and Aspen in Colorado, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and affiliate offices in Chicago, Philadelphia and Cincinnati No firm in the country can match the combination of urban and environmental planning, land use law, and real estate economics experience of its principals with both public and private sector clients Clarion principals have worked nationally for a variety of clients including government agencies, municipalities and counties, regional planning agencies, financial institutions, developers, corporations, partnerships, law firms, architects, and not -for -profit organizations. Our unique combination of talents in planning and land use law allows us to develop creative solutions to difficult land use questions. Clarion is particularly known for its expertise in land use, environmental planning and plan implementation. Clarion Associates has represented both private and public sector clients on a variety of land -use planning and zoning matters. Its principals have written plans and drafted ordinances and regulations throughout the United States, with particular emphasis on natural resource protection, open space plans, corridor plans, regional plans, historic preservation, development financing, design standards and both downtown and suburban zoning systems. Since it's founding in 1992, the firm has developed expertise in a broad range of planning areas, including: • Neighborhood, subarea, community and regional planning; • Growth management strategies for cities and regions; • Citizen participation strategies, including workshops, public meetings, website development, meeting facilitation, and other forms of community outreach; • Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analysis; • Plan implementation strategies; • Open Lands planning; • Environmental planning and identification and conservation of natural resources; and • Development regulations and design guidelines and standards. A brief description is included below for each of the Clarion team members. Resumes for the team are included in the Appendix. Benjamin A. Herman, AICP, is a Principal and Vice President of Clarion, with more than 24 years of local, regional, and international experience in all aspects of community, regional, and environmental planning. He has been responsible for managing and conducting complex, multidisciplinary assignments for both private and public sector clients. He has extensive experience in community planning, and he has completed comprehensive planning assignments for numerous towns and counties. Mr. Herman will serve as the primary point of contact with the City, and will be responsible for all day-to-day aspects of project assignments. Fort Collins Planning Services 1 2 C L A R 1 O N Christopher Duerksen is Managing Director of Clarion Associates of Colorado. He has represented local governments, nonprofits, and the private sector in a variety of land -use and zoning matters and specializes in development code revisions, growth management planning, historic preservation and natural area conservation strategies, impact fees, airport -area development, and market development strategies. A co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Mr. Duerksen has written and spoken extensively on land use issues in Colorado and nationally. He has authored many books and articles on land use issues, including Takings Law in Plain English and Aesthetics, Community Character, and the Law. Chris will be available for his expertise in development regulations, design standards, natural resource policy planning, and growth management planning. Lesli Kunkle Ellis is an Associate of Clarion Associates in our Fort Collins office. She is a land use planner and licensed landscape architect with more than nine years of professional experience in land use planning and open space and conservation planning. She has been responsible for conducting complex projects as a public sector planner and for public sector clients. Ms. Ellis' areas of expertise include open lands and trails planning, preparation of community plans, real estate and conservation strategies, GIS-based planning inventories and analysis maps and highway corridor planning. Darcie White, Associate, is a trained landscape architect with extensive experience in developing GIS databases and analyzing development patterns for land use planning and design projects. Ms. White also has experience in visual assessment, graphic design, and landscape and transportation design. Fort Collins Planning Services 1 3 Fort Collins Planning Services 1 q C L A R 1 O N Representative Project Experience City of Longmont, Colorado - Comprehensive Plan Update Clarion is currently updating the City of Longmont's five-year old Area Comprehensive Plan. Clarion is A - evaluating three alternative scenarios on the basis ! of the city's current growth -related benchmarks (or ' "sustainable" indicators). These benchmarks include: rate of growth, jobs/housing balance, '°` -- 1' — t school capacity, transportation congestion, and , affordable housing. After the city council - determines the relative benefits and tradeoffs associated with each alternative and chooses a - preferred direction, Clarion will prepare a revised _. set of policies and strategies to implement the land use plan and will recommend additional benchmarks or indicators to help the city accomplish its objectives. Southern Nevada Regional Plan, Las Vegas, NV 71�— Clarion Associates led a team to produce a regional plan and growth management strategy for the Las Vegas Valley, the fastest growing region in the nation. Mandated by the state legislature, the regional plan addresses transportation, land use, air quality, infill development, and public services and infrastructure. Working closely with the Regional Planning Coalition, made up of elected officials of the five jurisdictions in the Las Vegas Valley, Clarion �y Associates crafted a plan that focuses on implementation because all local government plans must conform, by state law, to the regional plan. The team defined a process to review developments of regional significance, also a feature of the state legislation. Clarion Associates developed principles to guide preparation of the plan, a detailed public participation plan that included a project speaker's bureau PowerPoint presentation and graphic brochure, and draft plan elements. City of Fort Collins Comprehensive Plan Ben Herman, now a principal of Clarion Associates, was responsible for leading a consulting team that included Calthorpe Associates and Clarion Associates, that prepared the comprehensive plan and implementation strategy for the city. In support of the new direction taken by the plan, Clarion Associates drafted an innovative new zoning code that completely revamped the city's noted Land Development Guidance System and implemented the city plan. Clarion Associates is playing a key role in the City Plan update process that is currently underway. Fort Collins Planning Services 1 5 C L A R 1 O N E-470 Corridor Design and Development Standards'�b;, E-470 is the Denver region's newest highway — a ?",u privately funded tollway that forms an eastern beltway �➢ connecting DIA to the north with the Denver Technological Center to the south. After adopting a mater plan for the E-470 corridor, the City of Aurora retained Clarion Associates to create a series of 11 new zoning districts and detailed design standards for the " entire corridor. The new standards seek to encourage _ well -organized, high -quality new development throughout the entire corridor, while focusing considerable attention and detail to the creation of new regional "places" at key interchanges. 1-25 Corridor Plan, Northern Colorado Communities Clarion Associates led the team that prepared a regional corridor plan for 30 miles of Interstate 25, through Northern Colorado. Stretching from Berthoud in the south to Fort Collins in the north, the planning process included the participation of 6 municipalities, 2 counties, a regional transportation planning agency, and the State Highway Department. The study focused on three key areas: development of a set of unified design standards, a conceptual transportation plan, and policies and standards for natural areas and open lands. Plan for the Region Between Two Cities, Larimer County, Colorado Clarion Associates principals headed a team that prepared a land use and open lands plan and implementation strategy for lands which lie between the cities of Fort Collins and Loveland. This corridor of land plays a key role in defining the distinct identities of these two communities. The Lorimer County Commissioners and the Fort Collins and Loveland City Commissioners adopted a land use plan for the area, which includes specific implementation strategies, adopted by all three entities. Participants in the development of the plan included: (1) a subcommittee of elected officials, (2) a citizen advisory group appointed by the County Commissioners, and (3) the Corridor Planning Team, consisting of city staff from each of the three governmental jurisdictions and the consultant team. As part of the planning process, the consultant team prepared a review of the land use planning and related tools for the implementation of the corridor plan. Broomfield Open Space, Trams, and Parks Master Plan In association with Wenk Associates, Clarion Associates are currently preparing a Master Plan for the City of Broomfield's Open Space, Trails, and Parks systems. Clarion is specifically responsible for the open space component of the Plan, as well as the plan's implementation strategies (both regulatory and non -regulatory) as well as the plan's financing strategy. Clarion and Wenk Associates have recently been selected to prepare an Open Space, Trails, and Parks plan for the City of Thornton. Fort Collins Planning Services 1 6 C L A R 1 O N Hourly Rates The following are our hourly rates for persons who will provide planning services on an as -needed basis: Benjamin A Herman $140 Chris Duerksen $190 Lesli Ellis $80 Darcie White $80 Technical Support Staff $55 Fort Collins Planning Services 1 7