Kimley-Horn Submittal for City of Sunny Isles Beach RFQ 22-06-01

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RFQ # 22-06-01 City of Sunny Isles Beach Landscape Architectural Services 12 LPOC36007.2022 Continuing Services for PLACEMAKING Combining national experience with a local sensibility for our clients, Kimley-Horn’s placemaking professionals provide comprehensive solutions to the planning and design of the urban public realm. Renowned for our work on redevelopment, streets, and urban revitalization, Kimley-Horn creates memorable places. With specialties including urban design, redevelopment, entitlements, community planning, and recreation, our planners and landscape architects deliver award-winning, practical, and sustainable design solutions. REDEVELOPMENT As municipalities continue to grow, urban design, streetscape design, and landscape architecture have become integral components of roadway and transportation system designs and infrastructure improvements. Revitalizing commercial districts, controlling traffic flows, and providing recreational areas and pedestrian and bicycle facilities in increasingly congested areas are some of the solutions designed by our engineers, landscape architects, and planners. Known for our public involvement programs, workshop facilitation, and consensus-building, we respond to the unique needs of each client–mindful of the role effective planning and design plays in enabling stakeholders to establish priorities. Working side-by-side with engineers, architects, and construction professionals, we ensure the realization of our clients’ vision while solving the challenges of each site. ROADWAY LANDSCAPING The basic tenet of roadway landscaping is to provide an enjoyable driving experience while recognizing the importance of safety and maintenance. Kimley-Horn has designed many roadway landscapes, and each represents the challenges associated with limited space, water conservation, plant survivability, utility conflicts, and traffic congestion. Our landscape design approach is to use plant material in a manner that creates a “rhythm” or “theme” for the roadway corridor. Varying tree heights, combining different plant species for textural interest, and spacing plant material are methods of creating aesthetically pleasing vehicular corridors. Practical restrictions related to City of Sunny Isles Beach standards for plant selection, application of xeriscape principles, and roadway design and road lighting will often dictate design. The effective use and placement of vertical features including trees, signs, and light poles will result in a landscape treatment that provides optimum safety, pleasing aesthetics, and low maintenance. Kimley-Horn’s goal is to turn our clients’ ideas into destinations where memories are made. Our cross-functional teams of landscape architects, engineers, and planners have provided comprehensive consulting services for dozens of award-winning projects across the country. We know how to maximize amenities while minimizing front-end and maintenance costs, resulting in destinations that stand the test of time. Midtown Miami Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton, FL Bradenton Riverwalk