1. City of Brookhaven Professional Planning Services Comprehensive Plan 2034 and Regional Plan 2040 Assessment RFQ#: 13-07

2. Company Background
We began as a small, two-person surveying firm called M.E. Berry & Associates in Hollywood, Florida. Known today as Calvin, Giordano & Associates (CGA).
Innovative and creative partnering offering a comprehensive approach.

3. History of the Firm Founded in 1937
Provide multi-disciplinary services specializing in the needs of local municipalities.
Have been serving our clients consistently and without interruption through the recent economic situations.

4. Local Market Presence and Familiarity
Original team members starting THE CITY of DUNWOODY - December, 2008
Ongoing full-time services with second contract delivering finance & administrative services
Fulton County contract successfully completed in delivering emergency management & public outreach services
CGA established & maintained local office in Brookhaven on Ashford Dunwoody Road

5. Local Government Commitment and Expertise
CGA experienced as public administrators
Municipal professional operating services and projects are our “niche”
Growing medium sized company “right sized” serving local government
Committed to serving as a resource and team member for The City of Brookhaven at your direction
Understand the value of local municipal control of decisions, planning, managed development, revitalization (Buford Highway), traffic control (Ashford Dunwoody Road), and fiscal management (Tax Base)
Hands-on involvement and outreach in the community to create a guiding policy tool for the future
Comprehensive planning is a core service and priority for CGA

6. Planning Team
Multi-disciplinary Team Approach

7. Services Civil Engineering Data Technologies & Development
Construction Engineering & Inspection
Indoor Air Quality
Planning
Coastal Engineering
Public Administration
Traffic Engineering
Redevelopment & Urban Design
Surveying & Mapping
Emergency Management Services
Renewable Energy
Resort Development
Governmental Services
Transportation Planning & Traffic Engineering
Landscape Architecture
Environmental Services
Utility & Community Maintenance Services
Building Code Services
Code Enforcement
Water Resources Management
Construction Services
Contract Government

8. General Planning Services
Comprehensive Plan Evaluation and Appraisal Reports and amendments
Zoning code preparation and updating
Presentations for planning and zoning boards and elected officials
Economic development analysis and planning
Land development regulations
Public outreach, involvement and community workshops
Master plans
Design guidelines
Development and site plan review services
Housing, population and demographic analysis

9. Comprehensive Planning
EARs
St. Lucie County
Martin County
Weston
Hollywood
Sunny Isles Beach
Lake Park
Malabar
Pahokee
Surfside
EAR-BASED AMENDMENTS
Port St. Lucie
St. Lucie County
Fort Pierce
Weston
Hollywood
Parkland
Malabar
Medley
Pahokee
Surfside
Excerpt from SB360 Final Summary Judgement
..been so designated. Plaintiffs’ Appendix (App.) 13. The affidavits of Shelley Eichner (App.16), Patricia A. Bates (App.17) and Ericka Gonzalez-Santamaria (App. 18) establish the unrefuted fact that the minimum cost to a local government to comply with the mandated comprehensive plan amendment is a low of $41,264 and the high end range of costs is $104,170, thereby requiring the minimum mandated expenditures required to comply statewide by the 246 local governments designated as TCEAs would be from $10,150,944 to $25,625,820.
Technical support for legal challenge
Provided affidavits to prove unfunded mandate
FIRST COMPREHENSIVE PLANS
Weston
Loxahatchee Groves
West Park

10. Challenges Leading To Exceptional Solutions
Loxahatchee Groves
Urban Sprawl determination by DCA
Level of Service Standards for roads

11. Challenges Leading To Exceptional Solutions
West Park
Inadequacy of local parks
Land use policies to encourage redevelopment

12. Challenges Leading To Exceptional Solutions
Weston
Master planned community with one major developer
Annexation of older, existing community

13. Unique Communities

14. Comprehensive Planning In Georgia

15. Brookhaven Schedule

16. GCA, Inc. PROJECT EXPERIENCE GDOT Metro Signal Timing Buford Highway
North Druid Hills Road
Chamblee Dunwoody Road
North ShallowFord Road
North Peachtree Road
I-85 at North Druid Hills Road Interchange Improvement
City of Oakland 2030 Master Plan (2009 Georgia Planning Association “Small Community Outstanding Planning Document” – First-Place Award Winner)
Specializing in Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning
Origins dating back to 1985
Established local Atlanta Office

17. Transportation & Land Use Connection

18. Sycamore Consulting, Inc.
Extensive outreach experience: local, regional, state, and federal projects
Local experience:
DeKalb County Board of Health Active Living Plans
DeKalb County Comprehensive Transportation Plan
DeKalb County Livable Centers Initiatives

19. Public Outreach Traditional and Innovative techniques:
Committees, interviews, meetings and workshops
Collateral materials, presentations, and displays
Kiosks and tactical urbanism events
Online content, surveys, videos, and meetings
Consensus building and facilitation
Effective and creative use of resources

20. Questions?

21. City of Brookhaven Professional Planning Services Comprehensive Plan 2034 and Regional Plan 2040 Assessment RFQ#: 13-07