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TO: Mayor Thomas J. Weisner
FROM: Stephane Phifer, Planning and Zoning Director
DATE: April 11, 2014
SUBJECT:
A Resolution Authorizing a Professional Service Contract with Teska Associates, Inc. for Neighborhood Planning Consulting Services (ANPI-13-409-Ap - TV)
PURPOSE:
Attached is a resolution authorizing the execution of a professional service contract with Teska Associates, Inc. ("Teska"). Pursuant to the attached contract, Teska will provide the City of Aurora with services to assist with the Aurora Neighborhood Planning Initiative ("ANPI") process for a fee not to exceed $25,000.00.
BACKGROUND:
Since 2000, the City of Aurora has taken a more proactive stance in working with its neighborhoods to articulate common issues and work together to identify solutions. Based on the acknowledgment that each of Aurora's neighborhoods has its own character, its own unique set of issues, and, perhaps, its own priorities for improving its quality of life; the Aurora Neighborhood Planning Initiative was started to provide a forum for neighborhoods to collaborate with the City in addressing neighborhood issues through long-range planning.
The ANPI is a community based process in which the City would provide support to neighborhood stakeholders who agree to come together to craft a vision for their neighborhood and to create a "road map" for achieving that vision. The resulting plans will help guide City service delivery in the neighborhoods.
The City of Aurora began the Aurora Neighborhood Planning Initiative in 2003 with the Bardwell Area Neighborhood Action Plan. Since 2003 the City has approved five more neighborhood plans, the last one being the Light of Our Community Neighborhood Action Plan approved in January of 2008. Teska was the neighborhood planning consultant for these six plans as well as the ANPI handbook created in 2003 and revised in 2009. Funding for the initiative was suspended in 2008 and was reinstated with the ...
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