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City of Ramsey <br />2008 Comprehensive Plan Update <br />Proposal <br />• Staff Commitment to Your Project <br />You want a project team fully devoted to achieving the best possible result. The DSU/Bonestroo team has <br />allocated time in our schedules to give your project the attention it deserves to produce a high quality <br />comprehensive plan update. <br />VL <br />'arc <br />DSU <br />Bonestroo <br />■ Firm Background Information <br />Improving Places, Improving Lives <br />At DSU/Bonestroo, we believe a collaborative, interdisciplinary design process best responds to the needs of <br />our clients and users. As facilitators, DSU/Bonestroo assists clients through the complex process of defining a <br />vision. We help to guide growth in a manner that is community -based, ecologically sensitive, market driven, <br />and financially feasible. <br />As educators, we seek collaboration between clients, users, and natural systems. We envision unique, <br />functional, artful ideas that are responsive to project objectives and the natural world. As designers, <br />DSU/Bonestroo creates a union of art and landscape architecture grounded in site specificity. Our designs <br />result in rich, diverse, and vital places layered with meaning and function. <br />Firm Breakdown <br />DSU and Bonestroo recently merged to form one firm. The merger results from the culmination of a more than <br />40-year working relationship among staff at the two firms. DSU has been developing creative, practical <br />solutions to complicated land planning and design challenges for 29 years. Founded in 1985, and with a <br />history dating back to 1975, DSU has extensive experience working with both public- and private sector clients, <br />developing solutions that work. <br />Bonestroo was founded in 1956 specializing in engineering service to municipalities. Today, our staff includes <br />40-year veterans and recent college graduates — a mix that allows us to combine new ideas and state-of-the-art <br />technologies with seasoned experience. <br />As one firm, DSU and Bonestroo bring a seamless relationship to your project. The planning services offered <br />by DSU are enhanced with Bonestroo's engineering and infrastructure knowledge. Together, we can provide <br />Ramsey with a vision for the future supported by planning and engineering experts. <br />DSU/Bonestroo bring together some of the best regional talents in engineering, architecture, planning, <br />landscape architecture, urban design, and market research. Our combined team now provides integrated <br />services in one organization. Based in St. Paul, DSU/Bonestroo currently employs more than 500 people and <br />serves clients throughout the Upper Midwest. We also have offices in Rochester and St. Cloud, MN; <br />Milwaukee, WI, and Chicago, IL. <br />Our team includes: <br />• Planners and urban designers <br />• Civil, structural, and electrical engineers <br />• Traffic and transportation engineers <br />■ Water and wastewater treatment engineers <br />• Environmental engineers <br />• Water and natural resource scientists and engineers <br />■ GIS specialists <br />■ Architects and landscape architects <br />7 <br />