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2 The IBI Group Team is both excited and honored to have the opportunity to respond to this Request for Proposal. The integration of transportation systems and their respective urban contexts forms the core of IBI Group practice. Our experience in intermodal station design, transportation planning, and master planning is unmatched. We design communities through a careful understanding of the relationships between transportation, land use, and facility design. Our sense of scale and balance, tempered by a clear understanding of how to take the vision and build it into reality, is our strength. j Beyond the firms, you know us individually as leading professionals in our field of practice. David Thom, AIA is the principal-in-charge and one of the leading architects in the field. The ideal project manager for this project is David Chow, P.E., AICP with his multi-disciplinary background, design skills and agency relationships. Our task leaders including Gary Hartnett, AIA, a master station architect with many similar projects successfully completed, Steve Wilks, our transit expert with planning and operations expertise, Sharon Greene, long respected by the industry with developing solid financial plans and accessing federal funding and Lee Lisecki, our environmental specialist with years of CEQA/NEPA experience. Also carefully selected to be a part of our team are Patricia Smith, ASLA, AICP with her highly regarded urban design and current Station District plan work, Jacqueline Patterson, P.E. with her rail and civil engineering capabilities, Gary Johnson with his agency/stakeholder understanding and Tony Rahimian's Caltrans and design expertise.This is the team that will add tremendous value to the study and will ensure that valuable resources are not spent "getting up to speed." Further, our team has built a high degree of trust and confidence with the relevant public and private entities that will be associated with this project. We are thoroughly familiar with the policies, standards and practices of the City of Santa Ana, OCTA, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), Metrolink, Amtrak, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), and Caltrans. We have worked directly with these various groups either as our clients, or we have helped other clients shepherd projects successfully through their review. Implementation Risks & Challenges In order to achieve all of the potential offered by this exciting project, a full understanding of risk factors affecting implementation must be understood so that proactive action may be undertaken to mitigate any potential project setback. Coordination of on-going improvement projects a lack of coordination between the ongoing parallel tracked improvement projects potentially leads to project setbacks, wasted efforts, and missed opportunities. At the very outset of the project The IBI Group Team will work with the Santa Ana Project Manager to develop a full accounting of all on-going and near future projects that have any possible interface with SARTC Master Planning concerns. From there, a series of coordination meetings will be scheduled to meet the stakeholders of the various efforts and introduce ourselves to the respective project managers and key participants. A culture of mutually beneficial relationships will be fostered from the outset and energy will then be focused on how all projects might enhance each other. On-going meetings will be held with the various stakeholders as discussed in more detail in Task 1.E of the Work Plan.