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The City of Dublin (the City) Division of Transportation & Mobility is requesting a scope, fee, and schedule to develop a planning study and vision plan, including any necessary planning and design activities, for the placement of a state-of-the-art, multi-modal passenger rail station located on an approximately 100 acre City owned property (Figure 1) and land use and transportation impacts in the periphery of west Dublin. As such, the City is hereby requesting multi-disciplined, professional consulting firms/teams to evaluate potential multi-modal rail station locations, develop a station master plan, and prepare a visioning and capacity study for conceptual development opportunities to support Transit Oriented Design (TOD) principles for the surrounding area. The City's support of this project demonstrates its commitment to sustainable development that will serve as a catalyst for economic growth, private investment, and job creation. The establishment of passenger rail service in Central Ohio has been an on-going goal for the region for many years and is critical to our continued economic growth, which forecasts an approximate sixty percent population increase by year 2050 and an additional 300,000 jobs. These growth pressures compel our region to look to our collective future to ensure prosperity for our current and future residents, a more efficient form of growth, and a higher quality of life by good stewardship of public resources. Investing in lasting improvements such as passenger rail will provide better access to these jobs and secure Central Ohio's ability to compete nationally and internationally. Passenger rail will serve as the spine of a regional multi-modal network that will provide employers access to a much wider, more diverse labor pool, and provide workers with vastly increased access to jobs and a variety of housing along with decreased commuting costs. A multitude of professional disciplines will be necessary to achieve the above stated project goals and objectives. The City recommends that firms/teams incorporate their varied experience in urban design, land use planning, pedestrian/mobility networking, transportation engineering, development economics, rail operations, transit operations, and railway facilities planning. The selected firm/team will provide the professional services for this project in accordance with the identified key tasks, meeting, and deliverables described below. The consultant is encouraged to make recommendations on the function or format of any element of this project. City Staff will finalize the scope of work with the selected consultant prior to contract authorization. Purpose: Establish a shared team understanding of objectives, key ideas, challenges, and opportunities though discussion, research, and analysis to guide future project steps within the study. Key Tasks: 1. Project Alignment: Establish the problem statement, study purpose, and key planning and transportation objectives. 2. Base Conditions: Collect data and information to create templates for site and study area base maps and create a design language for reports and presentations to be used throughout the study. 3. Prior Plans Review: Review relevant prior plans and studies then extract and summarize findings. 4. Stakeholders Engagement: Consultant facilitated small-group and one-on-one meetings with local stakeholders and regional and transportation partners. 5. Initial Key Themes: Identify and frame opportunities, challenges, and key ideas which provide a foundation for subsequent steps within the study. Milestone Meetings and Deliverables: 6. Project Kick-off Meeting: Meeting with Staff to establish and align study objectives, coordination, and share information. 7. Work Plan: Final project schedule, milestone meetings and deliverables. 8. Working Group Meeting #1 - Foundations: Consultant facilitated presentation to identify and frame planning and transportation opportunities, key ideas, and stakeholder themes. Step 2: Special Area Visioning and Framework Purpose: Explore conceptual scenarios for land use, transportation, and multimodal connectivity within the broad special area/station area, build consensus in a shared vision, and establish a framework to guide future development. Project Kickoff Meeting: Meeting with Staff to establish and align study objectives, coordination, share information, and coordinate final scope. Bi-weekly Staff-Consultant Coordination Meetings: Bi-weekly consultant-Staff coordination meetings and written progress updates, in a mixture of virtual and in-person formats, are anticipated during the life of this project. Bi-weekly meetings may be used to provide coordination with the future Community Plan Update and or coordination with regional and state mobility partners. Working Group Meetings: Consultant facilitated, graphic and succinct presentations. Presentation materials to be created by the consultant and provided at least one week in advance of meetings. City Council Meetings: Consultant facilitated, in-person meetings with graphic and succinct presentations. Presentation materials to be created by the consultant and provided at least two weeks in advance of meetings. Stakeholder Meetings: The consultant will facilitate at least 12 stakeholder/focus group meetings. Presentation materials to be created by the consultant and provided at least one week in advance of meetings. Consultant will provide a memo summarizing common themes and key issues from each meeting. Technical Memorandum Review Meeting: Meeting with Staff to discuss the final technical memorandum and any revisions. If you have any questions regarding this request, please contact Jeannie Willis, P.E., jwillis@dublin.oh.us or 614.410.4633. Any other contact with City personnel related to this request, prior to the formal selection of the consultant, is expressly prohibited without the consent of the City's Project Manager. The method of Contractor Selection has not been Determined at this time.