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 13 LPOC36007.2022 Continuing Services for COMMUNITY VISIONING AND CONSENSUS-BUILDING Kimley-Horn is sensitive to the pivotal role of meaningful public involvement programs and supports the active participation of your staff, stakeholders, and public in finding an optimum design solution. We also recognize the importance of a comprehensive business participation program for these types of projects — it serves to heighten local awareness, educate, and ensure success by accurately defining the needs of local owners and merchants. Community involvement determines the overall design program, funding strategies, and implementation priorities. Our expertise in providing a broad range of services helps ensure the successful implementation of your vision while addressing the specific challenges that each project entails. Kimley- Horn is known for developing innovative approaches to projects that involve neighborhood participation. We understand that many projects require community involvement and acceptance, and we have developed effective methods of bringing the community into the process. We are strongly committed to conducting public participation programs that educate, inform, and build consensus for a particular solution. Each project is different in terms of the stakeholders and the critical issues involved; thus, each public involvement program must be tailored to specifically address each project’s needs. TRAFFIC CALMING Kimley-Horn’s team of roadway designers, traffic engineers, and planners knows how to design roadways that accommodate a defined volume of through-traffic, while also serving as a corridor for business/residential units and pedestrian/bicycle usage. All reasonable efforts are made to restore a balance between automobiles and pedestrians. When addressing the functional and aesthetic needs of municipal road corridors, Kimley-Horn’s team emphasizes a wide variety of traffic calming principles. PARK DESIGN Kimley-Horn is a national leader in parks and recreation needs assessments, master planning, and design. Our landscape architectural staff features park planners and designers who have a wide variety of experience ranging from small and intimate pocket parks to multi-use landscaped corridors and active community parks. Our landscape architects emphasize the development of a pleasing human environment with functional spaces designed to artfully integrate with nature, complementing the community while developing a strong sense of place. Kimley-Horn has worked on park and recreation master plans in Florida and throughout the country that include passive recreation, athletic facilities, and greenway and trail systems. We are a tight-knit group within this large firm, and we take pride in providing services such as needs assessments, feasibility studies, master planning, design, permitting, public participation and consensus building, and construction administration. Our portfolio of public projects that include hundreds of built parks and trails is folded into preparing realistic implementation plans for our system master plans. Midtown Miami Sims Park, New Port Richey, FL Midtown Miami