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Page 4-4 LPPL36016.16-O Sunny Isles Beach Landscape Architect Services.indd THE CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH SERVICES LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT 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 general 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. Project Approach Kimley-Horn understands that a successful design process requires direct input and involvement from the City, as well as effective and constant communication with the City throughout all phases. The daily management effort conducted under this contract will flow through and be directed by the project manager, George Puig, PLA, who will work with City staff in preparing or obtaining a scope for each work assignment, and then coordinate and assign the appropriate staff to perform each task. George will oversee the performance of the tasks to ensure high quality is maintained without impacting the scope or the schedule and will ensure that the quality control process is completed before the final submittal to the City. In addition, George will communicate with City staff in order to make sure they are fully aware of the status of each task. Each landscape architectural assignment under this contract will be designed and implemented in accordance with not just the landscape, tree protection, and other regulatory requirements of the City, County, and applicable state and federal agencies, but with a “best practice” approach that emphasizes cost-effective design, ease of contractibility and maintenance, and sustainability. Finally, we will approach each assignment with a keen interest in the community’s expressed desires for the project and will work with stakeholders and City staff to effectively solicit, respond to, and incorporate public input, as appropriate for each project. A sample approach for a Landscape Architectural task order is as follows: Midtown Miami