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DRAFT 4111106 Request for Proposal Update of the Comprehensive Park Plan Lake Elmo, Minnesota Overview This document solicits proposals from qualified consultants to collaborate with the Lake Elmo City Park Commission in the update of the City's 1990 Park Plan. Backqround In 1990, the City of Lake Elmo adopted a Comprehensive Park Plan designed to provide a blueprint for the development of parks within the city limits over the period 1990 through 2010. While the 1990 Plan is acknowledged to be well conceived at least the following factors lead to the need to update its contents, and extend the park planning horizon: The recently adopted Lake Elmo 2030 Comprehensive Plan not only extends the City's planning to the year 2030 (also considered to be the City's "build out"), but plans/forecasts a significantly different future community fabric than assumed by the 1990 Park Plan. The City will not only be larger in population than assumed in 1990, but more urbanized in texture than previously assumed. Many of the park facilities depicted as "future" by the 1990 Park Plan have been acquired and/or developed by the City during the ensuing years. Both park planning and the public's perception of the role of municipalities in the provision of leisure time/recreational services/resources has changed over the 15+ years since the last Lake Elmo Park Plan was prepared. The City recently completed and adopted an updated Comprehensive Trail Guide Plan. No public trail work will be required by this contract, except that required to accommodate any new park locations. The City Park Commission has also completed most of the existing 2006 park facilities inventory work. Little inventory work regarding existing facilities will be required by the consultant. Description of Tasks The consultant(s) retained by the City of Lake Elmo as a result of this request for proposal will collaborate with the Lake Elmo City Parks Commission to: • Review existing plans and documents relating to the City's parks, including the 1990 Park Plan, the 2005 Comprehensive Trail Guide Plan, and the 2030 Lake Elmo Comprehensive Plan and the 2005-2006 work by the Lake Elmo Park Commission regarding inventory of the existing park facilities in the City. • Develop Lake Elmo specific park planning goals/objectives in concert with the Lake Elmo Park Commission; • Applying the existing park inventory findings, the adopted Lake Elmo park goals/objectives and contemporary park planning standards, develop a comprehensive parks needs assessment covering each park functional classification; • Develop a Comprehensive Park Plan for review and recommendations by the Lake Elmo City Parks Commission and make changes as deemed appropriate by that body. This Plan should include the following: