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7303 East and West Side Neighborhoods Character Study
Consultant Interview Questions (Please keep in mind we have 45 Minutes to
complete all of these!)
Please elaborate on your role in working with a municipality on a similar project. What
worked well, what challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome difficult
issues to ensure successful outcomes?
2. Given the nature and outcome of the previous 2010 Study, from your perspective is the
outline of the scope of work and public process in the RFP sufficient for ensuring
successful outcomes? Or, if you think something is missing, what is it?
We've been told that we need to look at more than physical design characteristics
involving houses and lots, and look at a COMPLETE range of characteristics. This could
include the feel of the neighborhood, social aspects like friendliness, attitudes and values
such as commitment of residents to the neighborhood, freedom to use property, life cycle
issues with outdated construction, market demographics, the role of changes over time,
and the location of the neighborhood. Those are just examples of non-physical
characteristics. Do you have experience or thoughts about how to elicit the
characteristics that define the neighborhood for residents?
4. Follow up to #3. Do you have experience or thoughts about PORTRAYING
neighborhood characteristics, so that residents can tell us which ones are important to
protect, and which ones offer a greater tolerance for change?
5. Do you have experience or thoughts about the appropriate context for considering
changes to older neighborhoods? For example, the houses next door to the change, or the
block face, or the block face plus the opposing block face, or the subdivision, or era of
construction, or the neighborhood as a whole?
6. The RFP identifies potential strategies for seeking feedback from residents and other
stakeholders; including statistically valid questionnaires, visual preference surveys, focus
group meetings, and open houses. Please briefly describe your team's approach for a
successful public engagement process.
Follow up to #6. There is a desire to let early public input drive the project. The public
inquiry and outreach could potentially be extremely time-consuming — the extreme end of
the spectrum would be to knock on every door, as opponents of last year's zoning
of
Collins
changes apparently did. But your budget indicates discrete, truncated tasks ranging from
a few hours to a few days for most tasks. Have you thought about how to reconcile the
need for efficient progress with the desire to have the public guide the project along the
way?
8. With similar projects, how have you managed diverse stakeholders to maximize informed
consent? Give 3 examples.
9. Given the range of potential options for protecting neighborhood compatibility from
voluntary to regulatory strategies, what tools and systems are appropriate as solutions to
retain the character and context, as change occurs over time? Give 3 examples.
10. The RFP mentioned the process timeframe from January to the end of 2012, or sooner if
possible. Our expectation in negotiating with the selected team is to identify a more
accelerated timeframe to complete the Study in early Fall. What suggestions do you have
to maximize success and still identify viable solutions in nine months vs. twelve?
11. Does your team have any questions for City staff?