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<br /> <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach ∙ RFQ No. 12-04-02 – Planning & Urban Design <br />2-8 <br />transportation and urban planning, the methods of considering transportation <br />projects are changing more quickly in recent years. Corradino practices <br />combination corridor/livability projects, which represent a new generation of <br />transportation planning in South Florida. This approach acknowledges that <br />transportation and land use are inextricably linked. The Corradino Group and its <br />team are very familiar with the approach, resulting from much of their work across <br />the nation over the past four decades. Specifically, this included work <br />accomplished along the US-1 Corridor in Southern Miami Dade County, where <br />the primary roadway corridor was enhanced with premium transit in the form of <br />bus rapid transit, while simultaneous land use planning (for nodes of intensity at <br />various points along the corridor) set the stage for more transit friendly, sustainable <br />development. <br /> <br />When conventional processes of evaluating projects are geared just toward <br />adding automobile capacity, roadway building and widening projects are the <br />obvious solution. At this point in the County’s development, we don’t have the <br />land or financial resources to implement many more traditional roadway <br />projects. Corradino believes that transportation planning must move beyond <br />established procedures to more thoroughly examine our regional transportation <br />issues. The way projects are developed needs to progress by including using <br />alternative performance measures, outreach methods, and implementation <br />strategies so that transportation projects can improve community livability and <br />quality of life. Corridor capacity must be viewed as being diverse to include <br />transit, walking, and biking in addition to traditional automobile level of service. <br />The location of residential and employment centers also impacts where, when, <br />and how people travel. The colocation of employment and residential centers <br />could have dramatic impacts on travel. This, however, is highly dependent on <br />market conditions. To entice this development takes a combination of public <br />investment in transportation infrastructure, the proper land use and zoning, as <br />well as other regional economic factors relative to supply, demand, and <br />inventory of a variety of development types. Considering the coordination of <br />transportation with land use will be the primary technique of shaping urban form <br />and mobility in the future. <br /> <br />GIS MAPPING AND 3D GRAPHICS <br />Corradino has a GIS department, which utilizes the latest technology to assist its <br />clients. Corradino uses the base layers from the Miami-Dade County System and <br />customizes new layers for its municipal clients to suite their specific needs. In doing