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A Resolution Of The City Commission Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Approving And Authorizing The Appropriate City Officials To Issue An Authorization To Proceed With Bermello Ajamil & Partners, Inc. To Provide Professional Landscape Architecture and Planning Services For The Hollywood Downtown Streets Pilot Project And Develop A Design Guideline Reference Manual For Public Rights-Of-Way In An Amount Not To Exceed $203,375.00.
Strategic Plan Focus
Infrastructure & Facilities
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Staff Recommends: Approval of the attached Resolution.
Explanation:
In October of 2016, the City Commission adopted rezoning of the Hollywood Regional Activity Center (RAC) and its zoning regulations. The goals of the RAC zoning were to attract mixed-use developments that promote a downtown urban lifestyle and encourage the use of mass transit.
The on-street parking demand within the RAC area has become increasingly higher. This has triggered the need for the City to analyze the right-of-way conditions relating to on-street parking, access and landscaping within the RAC and the Hollywood Downtown Community Redevelopment Area (CRA). A set of public right-of-way streetscape design guidelines have also become necessary and crucial in order to bring consistent design and uniformity within the right-of-way, and to simplify the right-of-way design process as redevelopment emerges and the number redevelopment projects increase in the RAC.
Bermello Ajamil & Partners, Inc. is one of the City's professional services consultants from the library for continuing services contracts and was requested to provide a proposal. The proposal generally consists of two components - Project Component #1: Downtown Street Pilot Project Comparison, and Project Component #2: Public Right-of-Way Streetscape Design Guidelines. The CRA requested that the consultant's scope of services include detailed analysis of existing conditions relative to Neighborhood Master Planning for the project area...
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