Specifications include, but are not limited to: The City of Opa-locka is requesting proposals from qualified Planning Consultants to conduct necessary research for the development of appropriate documentation for the COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) to be accepted and adopted by the City. The State of Florida’s growth policy and planning law, Chapter 163, Part II, Florida Statutes, requires that all counties and municipalities maintain long-range Comprehensive Planning programs. The purpose of Comprehensive Planning is to monitor and evaluate community characteristics related to development, provisions of services, environmental protection, and other governmental activities. Planning is a continuous and ongoing process. The City of Opa-locka periodically reviews their Comprehensive Plan to ensure that it appropriately reflects current and anticipated conditions, embodies a community vision, targets major issues that the City must address in both the short- and long-term, complies with state statutes and rules, and is consistent with state and regional policy plans. Citywide Visioning Study: A Citywide Visioning Study is to review and develop a single unified vision for the City of Opa-locka that provides a framework to guide growth and enable the measurement of progress on key priorities that preserve the City’s sense of character and scale while supporting sustained economic prosperity. It does so with several key elements: • Outlining the project drivers and process (“Overview of the process”) including a capacity analysis. • Summarizing the context for the Vision, such as socio-economic characteristics and trends, prior and ongoing plans, infill and redevelopment opportunities, market, and economic context
