Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute an Amended Professional Services Contract with Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. in Support of the Comprehensive Plan Update
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Direction for Strategic and Economic Growth
MEETING DATE: May 2, 2017
DEPARTMENT: Development Services - Planning Department
CONTACT: Jennifer Arnold, Planning Manager
Brian Lockley, AICP, CPM, Director of Planning
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* Approval of the Resolution.
ITEM SUMMARY:
* The Resolution authorizes the City Manager to execute an amended professional services contract with Kimley Horn and Associates, Inc. in order to perform additional public outreach, land use and transportation planning and other associated services in support of the 10-Year Comprehensive Plan Update (known as the ONE McKinney 2040 Comprehensive Plan).
* The contract for the ONE McKinney 2040 Comprehensive Plan Update was first authorized by City Council in June 2015 and was recently amended in February 2017 to include fiscal modeling and limited transportation modeling in light of recent discussions regarding US 380 and regional transportation.
* However, based on recent developments in regional mobility initiatives, additional public outreach, land use and transportation planning is still needed to evaluate and capture the potential implications of regional transportation decisions on the ONE McKinney 2040 Comprehensive Plan.
* Specifically, the proposed amended professional services contract allows the project team to perform additional public outreach activities and necessary land use and transportation updates as progress is made on the TxDOT US 380 Feasibility Study. Based on the anticipated timing of the TxDOT US 380 Feasibility Study, Staff expects that these additional activities and tasks will be carried out over the next 12 to 18 months.
* To carry out these additional tasks, Staff has reached an agreement with Kimley...
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