Specifications include, but are not limited to: The City of Keene, NH ("the City") seeks to hire a qualified consultant or consultant firms to assist the Planning Board, a special Master Plan Project Steering Committee, City staff and City Council to prepare an update to the City's 2010 Comprehensive Master Plan (CMP). This update will be done in two phases, beginning with a renewal of Keene's Community Vision. Public involvement and input will be a critical component of this phase, with a focus on neighborhood engagement throughout the City and strategic visioning around the future of Keene's downtown and growth areas/nodes. In the second phase, each of the 2010 CMP's multiple topic-oriented chapters will be examined and updated to reflect current community priorities. Throughout the process, citizens and community partners will be asked to join with the City to identify priorities and establish a list of goals and action steps for implementation. This input will inform the development of an actionable implementation section that will outline and prioritize strategies for achieving the Plan's updated goals and objectives. This project is anticipated to take place over a period of eighteen months. Funding will support professional services and materials to organize and facilitate public engagement activities, collecting and analyzing current demographic and socioeconomic data and historical trends, the development of updated plan language, the development of existing and future land use maps, and the reorganization and graphic layout of a revised document
