STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Government Performance & Financial Management
AGENDA DATE: June 14, 2023
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): All
DEPARTMENT: Office of Procurement Services
EXECUTIVE: Jack Ireland
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SUBJECT
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Authorize a two-year consultant contract, with two one-year renewal options for the comprehensive reform of the Dallas development codes, Chapters 51, 51A, and 51P for the Department of Planning and Urban Design - Camiros, Ltd, most advantageous proposer of four - Not to exceed $2,015,660 - Financing: Operating Carryover Fund (subject to annual appropriations)
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BACKGROUND
This action does not encumber funds; the purpose of a service contract is to establish firm pricing for services, for a specific term, which are ordered on an as needed basis.
This consultant contract will provide for the comprehensive reform of the Dallas development codes, Chapters 51, 51A, and 51P for the Department of Planning and Urban Design. The contract will engage the services of a firm to develop a modern, updated and user-friendly development code that is streamlined, consistent, clear, aligned with all City plans and policies.
The code reform will include a general modernization of the development code to provide clarity, improve overall functionality, and achieve greater sensitivity to the existing and future fabric and character of the City of Dallas. The code reform will focus on portions of the Development Code that are either deficient, outdated, overly complex or that otherwise unnecessarily inhibit development. The new code will advance the goals of the city's updated Comprehensive Plan, Forward Dallas, and all current city plans and policies, and be better equipped to meet the myriad needs of the city in such areas as housing, urban design, transportation, climate action, preservation, and conservation. The reform will include both major and minor editing of the existing code language as well as orig...
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