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Appendix A Consultant's Services Detailed Approach to the Scope of Services Ramsey has a unique character, setting, and history. The challenge of the next comprehensive plan will be building on the early promise of the Town Center and its potential for creating urban character and providing commuter transit, while respecting the character of the City's rural parts and the natural environment. The future will bring additional challenges, which the Comprehensive Plan goals and policies will articulate and anticipate. The plan should manage infrastructure development and growth that will occur within distinct neighborhoods, while knitting the community together through improved transportation systems, parks, trails, open spaces, and greenways. The plan needs to remain sensitive to the rural parts of the community, while allowing for growth and economic development. The Comprehensive Plan will provide the blueprint for building a healthy, diverse community that confidently looks to the future. The City is seeking professional planning services to assist in completing a Comprehensive Plan update. There are several planning and infrastructure studies that have been, or will soon be, undertaken which are to be incorporated into the new Plan. Our team will focus on the tasks identified by the City in the RFP, and meet the deadline for completing the Comprehensive Plan update by June 2008. A two-track process is proposed to gather background information and summarize existing plans, while also monitoring the Ramsey 3 process, which is an innovative public outreach effort to engage the community in discussing and prioritizing key issues affecting them. The results of the Ramsey 3 Open Space Technology gathering will be the basis for alternatives analyzed in the final phases of the Comprehensive Plan Update. Our team will work with City staff, the Planning Commission, and the City Council to integrate the tracks at key points in the process. We will emphasize throughout the process that all information, opinions, and recommendations are subject to review by the Planning Commission, which is charged by State law with preparing a comprehensive plan, and approval by the City Council, which is the sole legal authority to adopt plans and ordinances. The Consultant's role in this update will be incorporating these issues and ideas into clear goals, policies, and plans in a refined Comprehensive Plan and present it to the community, Planning Commission and City Council, as well as take it through the Metropolitan Council review process. Public Sector - no design or construction A-1_105-