Location: Cambridge, MD
City of Cambridge Maryland Comprehensive Plan
Proposal Due: January 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM EST
Full FRP: See the full Request for Proposal (RFP) here.
Description
The City of Cambridge, Maryland is issuing this Request for Proposals (RFP) to provide comprehensive planning services for the City. The intent of these services is to write and adopt a collaborative “place-based” Comprehensive Plan based on the tenants of the new urbanism.
The document must meet the requirements of the State of Maryland, the long-range planning needs of the City, and be presented in such a manner that any citizen, regardless of their background or upbringing will grasp its meaning.
Any response to this proposal shall include the total cost associated with creating the Comprehensive Plan as well as the qualifications that each team possesses.
https://www.choosecambridge.
THE RFP SHALL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL: JANUARY 7, 2025 AT 3:00 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME (EST.)
Elements Required by the State of Maryland
- Land Use and Development Regulations
- Municipal Growth
- Sensitive Areas
- Water Resources
- Mobility and Transportation
- Housing
- Natural Resources (Mineral Resources)
- Fisheries
- Community Facilities
Elements that are Optional, but Desired
- Community Design & Historic Preservation
- Cultural Resources
- Health
- Economic Development
- Tactical Improvements
Areas of Special Attention to be Addressed in the Plan
- Public Engagement and Participation – Convey “best practices” and other “tools” related to citizen engagement and public participation for such a project.
- Provide a template for establishing a “form-based” Development Code from this plan (City has a downtown FBC).
- Downtown and Neighborhood Issues.
- a. Stormwater Management, including best practices, tools, and opportunities.
- b. A stormwater transect.
- c. A neighborhood scaled approach to stormwater issues, including heat island strategies, reforestation, and a stormwater fee structure.
- d. Economic Development.
- e. Parking Lots: Both city-owned and privately owned, including those that are ideal for future infill.
- f. First Floor and Upper-story Infill: Promote the use of infill, including ways to creatively navigate the building code.
- g. Promote home ownership programs.
- h. Infuse “Missing Middle” neighborhood housing typologies.
- i. Improvements to the Public Realm, including:
- i. Street and intersection design.
- ii. Review of “one-way” streets.
- iii. “On street” parking.
- iv. Appropriately designed sidewalks and crosswalks.
- v. Street tree plantings.
- vi. Public signage (stop, yield, parking, etc.) standards.
- vii. Private signage standards.
- viii. Civic space and park typologies and sizes.
- ix. The City’s alleyways.
- x. Residential “side yard” driveway construction.
| Schedule Item | Date |
| Public Notice of release of RFP | 11/19/2024 |
| Questions regarding RFP due at 5:00 PM EST to City of Cambridge Planning Director, Brian Herrmann | 12/06/2024 |
| Release of responses to questions regarding the RFP | 12/13/2024 |
| Proposals due at 3:00 PM EST Tuesday, January 7th 2025 | 01/07/2025 |
| Proposals distributed to Evaluation Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| City of Cambridge selects top firm | 01/15/2025 |
| Notify selected firm | 01/16/2025 |
| Recommendation to City Council | 01/27/2025 |
| Refine contract / negotiate specifics | 1st work day after City Council Hearing |
| Commencement of Project | 10 business days following finalization of the contract |
| Should an issue arise with any of the dates listed above, the City may extend one or more of the deadlines. As soon as the new schedule is established all applicants to submit a Request for Proposal shall be immediately notified of any and all changes; including new dates. | |
Email and Phone Contact:
Brian Herrmann, Planning Director, City of Cambridge
1025 Washington Street
Cambridge, MD 21613
bherrmann@choosecambridge.com
Work (410) 901-3309
Cell (843) 263-8117