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• Major impacts to the City’s drinking water infrastructure <br /> <br />Beyond these local projects, the Metropolitan Council’s regional policy plans include the following items <br />that staff anticipates will exceed a technical review: <br />• Mayor shifts in regional demographics <br />• Ensure adequate land is zoned and guided at densities allowing for creation of affordable <br />housing. Specifically, New Brighton must aim to create 164 additional units of affordable <br />housing to ensure the region accommodates the growth anticipated. <br />• Transit system changes, including bus rapid transit lines and managed lanes (MnPASS). <br />• Ensuring related Water Supply, Surface Water Management, and Parks Plans are compliant with <br />updated regional policy plans. <br /> <br />The bulleted items in the above two paragraphs are highlights into suspected Comprehensive Plan <br />updates, but there are many other issues that will need to be addressed. Beyond City-specific revisions, <br />Staff works directly with New Brighton’s assigned sector representative at the Metropolitan Council to <br />ensure the regional policy plan updates are correctly included into the local plan update. <br /> <br />Selecting a Consultant <br />Because the Comprehensive Plan update process can be very time consuming, and the amount of City <br />staff available to work intensively on the plan is less than what was available during the last technical <br />update process, staff has sought proposals from three consultants to assist in this effort. Proposals were <br />received from Sambatek, Northwest Associated Consultants (NAC), and Hoisington Koegler Group Inc. <br />(HKGI) and range in price from $26,100 - $177,000 depending on the level of services sought. All three <br />proposals are attached for Council review. Rather than providing a detailed explanation of each <br />proposal, staff offers the following summaries: <br /> <br />Sambatek Proposal <br />The proposal received by Sambatek was the most expensive at $155,000 - $177,000 and provided the <br />highest level of service. This proposal was focused on creating a completely new Comprehensive Plan. <br />Staff communicated to the consultant that a new plan was not envisioned and offered Sambatek the <br />opportunity to revise their proposal to respond to an update of the existing plan, which they declined. <br />Since the existing Comprehensive Plan is structurally very good, staff would not advise accepting this <br />proposal. The City of New Brighton has not previously worked with Sambatek. <br /> <br />NAC Proposal <br />The proposal received by NAC was the least expensive at $26,100 - $38,500 + (depending on additional <br />services) and provided three update options that vary in degree of update intensity and amount of <br />public participation. NAC is a purely planning firm and has written many Comprehensive Plans. This <br />proposal offers flexibility in terms of the degree of plan revisions, allowing the process to evolve as it <br />goes on. This proposal does not contain a “do not exceed” price, so there isn’t a way to determine a <br />total cost at this time. The City of New Brighton has not previously worked with NAC. <br /> <br />HKGI Proposal <br />The proposal received by Hoisington Koegler Group Inc. was priced in the middle of the other two <br />proposals at $80,000. This proposal outlined a very specific process that HKGI would follow. A major <br />difference with the HKGI proposal is HKGI has worked previously in New Brighton, drafting the <br />Comprehensive Plan the City is currently working from, as well as an Old Highway 8 Corridor Study <br />called A Vision for the Heart of New Brighton. This previous knowledge may be helpful in terms of