Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Authorizing the Interim City Manager to Seek Out and Contract with a Parking Garage Design Professional
Summary
MEETING DATE: November 4, 2014
DEPARTMENT: Development Services
CONTACT: Michael Quint, Director of Planning
Patricia Jackson, P.E., Facilities Construction Manager
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* Adopt a resolution authorizing the Interim City Manager to seek out and enter into a professional services contract with a parking garage design and construction professional.
ITEM SUMMARY:
* Staff is seeking the City Council's approval of a resolution which will authorize the Interim City Manager to seek out and execute a contract with a structured parking facility design professional. The scope of this contract will generally include, but not be limited to a conceptual parking garage layout(s); opinions of probable construction costs; and a more detailed analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats presented by a municipally-owned and operated structured parking facility on Site 2.
* On August 18, 2014, the City Council gave Staff consensus to move forward with the evaluation of Site 2 (NWC of Davis St. and Kentucky St.) as the site for a future municipal parking garage.
* Staff has evaluated this site and has generated a list of topics that warrant additional evaluation and discussion. These topics include:
o A new, feasible structured parking facility design is required in order to generate more realistic construction estimates.
o Estimated construction costs including, but not limited to land acquisition, utility relocation, adjacent roadway improvements, garage construction.
o Long-term maintenance and operation costs and obligations.
o Traffic impact to existing roadway network... improvements needed?
o Garage to be 3 stories or 4 stories?
o Garage to be designed with a 1st floor, ground to ceiling height able to accommodate commercial uses?
o Gara...
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