REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
June 25, 2015
FROM: JENNIFER CLARK, Director
Development and Resource Management Department
BY: SOPHIA PAGOULATOS, Supervising Planner
Development and Resource Management Department
SUBJECT
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Approve the third amendment to the contract with Fehr and Peers, a California S-Corporation, in an amount not to exceed $83,700 for professional engineering services to complete the traffic analysis for the Downtown Plans and Code Environmental Impact Report and authorize City Manager or his or her designee to execute documents.
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RECOMMENDATION
Approve the third amendment to the contract with Fehr and Peers, a California S-Corporation, in an amount not to exceed $83,700 for professional engineering services to complete the traffic analysis for the Downtown Neighborhoods Community Plan, the Fulton Corridor Specific Plan, the Downtown Development Code (hereinafter Downtown Plans) and related Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and to authorize the City Manager or his or her designee to execute documents .
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Fehr and Peers is the traffic engineering consulting firm originally contracted in January 2010 to do the traffic analysis work related to the Downtown Plans and related EIR. The additional funds are needed to complete the work necessary for the Downtown Plans traffic analysis and to ensure consistency with the recently adopted General Plan and related Master EIR.
BACKGROUND
The planning process for the Downtown Plans began in 2010 and included a team of consultants with Fehr and Peers functioning as the traffic engineering sub-consultant on the team. Fehr and Peers was charged with overall technical oversight of the transportation-related aspects of the Downtown Plans and related EIR. In 2013, work on the Downtown Plans and related EIR was put on hold when the US Department of Transportation announced the City's $16 million TIGER grant award for the Fult...
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