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