Jefferson Parish Comprehensive Plan Update

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Context

Called Envision Jefferson 2020, the Comprehensive Plan entails an overall vision for the parish’s physical development and redevelopment; elements that provide goals, objectives, and policies (GOPs); and an implementation table of tasks to achieve the plan’s vision and GOPs. Initially adopted with land use and transportation elements, the plan has expanded since 2003 to include a thoroughfare plan, housing element, greenprint, and three subarea plans. The plan can be found online at http://www.norpc.org/assets/pdf-documents/ImplementingEnvision2020FinalS....

The update to the Plan will identify obstacles, policy gaps, and needed policy clarifications, as well as new opportunities or tasks to achieve Plan goals. Whether the Plan’s vision, GOPs, and implementation tasks remain valid or need to be revised to reflect changing needs and conditions, including fiscal conditions, the Parish’s ability to finance public investments, and changes in State or Federal laws and policies that affect the tools for Plan implementation, is a key question that the update will address. This question is particularly important given that Hurricane Katrina shifted the region’s planning perspective, and resilience, the parish’s ability to respond and recover from disruptive events, is now a key goal of its comprehensive planning.

The Parish’s update to the Plan will incorporate GOPs and tasks to promote the parish’s resilience and sustainability, which together will be woven through the discrete Plan elements. While maintaining the basic framework of elements in the Plan update, the Parish also is interested in applying systems thinking by considering more critically how the elements interconnect.

Minimum Qualifications

Persons or firms under consideration for the role of primary consultant shall have at least five (5) years’ experience in the urban planning field. The professional in charge of the project shall be certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and have a minimum of five (5) years’ experience in urban planning. Further, all persons or firms under consideration shall have at least one (1) firm representative who has at least five (5) years’ experience in urban planning.

Submittal Instructions

Interested firms must submit five (5) paper copies of their submittal packet to the Jefferson Parish Council, c/o Mrs. Eula A. Lopez, Parish Clerk, 200 Derbigny Street, Suite 6700, Gretna, Louisiana 70053, no later than 4:30pm on Friday, 12/9/2016. No submittal packet will be accepted after the deadline.

All submittals should be sealed and identified on the outside as: SOQ for Consulting Services for an Update to the Jefferson Parish Comprehensive Plan.
The qualifier shall be solely responsible for the timely furnishing of submittal packets. In order to guarantee the timely furnishing of submittal packets, the submittal packets should be submitted by certified or registered mail or hand delivered.

There is no expressed or implied obligation for the Parish of Jefferson, Louisiana, to reimburse responding consultant(s) for any expenses incurred in preparing proposals in response to this request.

Unless otherwise stated in this request, all questions should be sent via email to Melissa Guilbeau at mguilbeau@jeffparish.net. Responses to all questions will be posted on the Jefferson Parish Planning Department’s webpage once a week as they are received. No questions will be accepted later than 12/7/2016.