Item 20 - Professional Services Agreement for Public Realm Plans

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Planning and Building Agency www.santa-ana.org/planning-and-building Item # 20 City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 Staff Report February 6, 2024 TOPIC: Professional Services Agreement for Public Realm Plans AGENDA TITLE Agreement with Torti Gallas + Partners, Inc. (TGP) to Assist the City with the Development and Adoption of a Public Realm Plan for Each of the Five General Plan Focus Areas in an Amount Not to Exceed $799,282 (Specification No. 23-011) (General Fund and Non -General Fund) RECOMMENDED ACTION Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Neal I. Payton Architectural Corporation dba Torti Gallas + Partners, Inc. (TGP) to assist the City with the development and adoption of a Public Realm Plan for each of the five General Plan Focus Areas, in an amount not to exceed $799,282 for a two-year term beginning on February 6, 2024 and expiring on January 31, 2026, with provisions for a one two-year extension (Agreement No. A-2024-XXX). GOVERNMENT CODE §84308 APPLIES Yes DISCUSSION The City Council adopted a comprehensive update to its General Plan on April 19, 2022. The updated General Plan includes significant changes to the use and development of land reflecting the vision of the community to strategically focus future growth along five major transit corridors or, as termed by the Plan, Focus Areas. The five Focus Areas include South Main Street, Grand Avenue/17t" Street, West Santa Ana Boulevard, 55 Freeway/Dyer Road, and South Bristol Street. The City's General Plan Land Use Element will redirect growth into the Focus Areas by providing opportunities for new developments that match the vision and goals expressed by the community and City Council. The General Plan contains policies that call for the completion of public realm plans for the Focus Areas to enhance pedestrian and cyclist experience, amenities, safety, sense of place, and aesthetics. Policies in the General Plan also call for the establishment of mechanisms to leverage development enabled by the land use changes in the Focus Areas to fund the construction of improvements in the public right-of-way to provide a safe and efficient multimodal transportation system and its maintenance. The Public Realm Plans, once adopted, will provide a road map that links new development enabled by the land use changes to the needed physical improvements, infrastructure,