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City of Sunny Isles Beach ∙ RFQ No. 12-04-02 – Planning & Urban Design 2-6 COMMUNITY VISIONING AND OUTREACH Visioning is a first step to understanding the needs and wants of a community and developing a plan to achieve those needs. Successful projects demand high levels of outreach and communication. This is a hallmark of Corradino’s planning efforts. The team has performed charrettes, workshops, and visioning sessions that have led to land development codes, conceptual urban design plans, master plans, etc. The team consists of technical staff capable of presenting technical concepts in an easily understood manner, then listening to the community to understand what they want. Once this understanding is gained, the team has the ability to articulate these desires on paper, either in text or graphic form. It takes experience and insight to decipher the community’s desires. On complex efforts no amount of public outreach is too much, particularly on issues that are controversial. If the municipality really wants to implement a controversial project successfully, it takes effort in outreach. Corradino understands this and can meet with the constituency in the smallest groups possible, so as to provide almost individual attention. The team often goes to the public instead of having the public come to a central location. Going to homeowners groups, neighborhood associations, or individual stakeholders is often the best way to share information, be responsive to particular needs, and build lasting credibility for local government, which can ease implementation of future projects. Because of this Corradino implements its projects. The Miami Beach Municipal Mobility Plan was an effort that resulted in the public taxing itself with a $97million general obligation bond to reconstruct its transportation infrastructure system. It couldn’t have been done without a reservoir of trust built through public involvement. This was a detailed public involvement effort that took over a year of intensive communication between various constituent groups. Change is difficult. In Cutler Bay, Corradino was tasked with implementing the Southland Mall Charrette, which took a suburban mall and, re-land used and re-zoned it, to be a dense, transit-oriented urban center. Predictably, neighbors initially resisted the effort, but after more than a year of workshops, neighborhood meetings, and one-on-one dialogue with stakeholders, consensus was built and the land use and zoning for the area were approved. COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLANNING The Corradino Team has worked in redeveloping communities for years. Economic development plans, urban designs and projects in Community