1. City of North Miami Beach

2. FIRM OVERVIEW Calvin, Giordano & Associates, Inc.
We are a well-established multi-disciplinary firm that has been located in South Florida for 80 years.
Since 1937, the company has grown from a small, two-person surveying firm to over 350 employees, providing over 25+ Municipal Services.
Municipal/Agency Experience (not limited to):
City of Cutler Bay, FL
City of Marathon, FL
City of South Miami, FL
City of Key West, FL
City of Hialeah Gardens, FL
City of Delray Beach, FL
City of Hialeah, FL
City of Greenacres, FL
City of Miami Gardens, FL
City of Pahokee, FL
City of Sunny Isles Beach, FL
City of Weston, FL
City of West Park, FL
City of Tamarac, FL
Town of Surfside, FL
City of Boca Raton, FL
Town of Medley, FL
Town of Lake Park, FL
Town of Bay Harbor Islands, FL
Town of Palm Beach, FL
City of Hollywood, FL

3. TEAM RESOURCES Office Distance to North Miami Beach CGA Miami-Dade
5mi / 15 minutes
Lambert Advisory
17mi / 25 minutes
CGA Corporate Office
15mi / 25 minutes

4. Calvin, Giordano & Associates, Inc.
PROJECT TEAM
Calvin, Giordano & Associates, Inc.
AICP certified planners
Shelley Eichner
Alex David (Project Manager)
Sarah Sinatra Gould
Richard Cannone
Robert Collins
Urban Design
Gianno Feoli
Traffic Engineering
Eric Czerniejewski, PE
Engineering
Curt Keyser, PE
Landscape Architecture
Tammy Cook-Weedon, ASLA
Lambert Advisory
Market, Economic, and Strategic Planning Services
Eric Liff
Paul Lambert
Susana Siman

5. PROJECT UNDERSTANDING
To provide continuing architectural, landscape, and urban design review services on an ongoing basis.
To provide comprehensive planning and zoning regulations in order to create mixed-use areas in five strategic locations within the City.
Conduct a parcel analysis to:
Evaluate the appropriate development pattern for each area/parcels
Determine the existing entitlements
Evaluate the highest and best use of those sites
Utilize the appropriate density and/or basket of rights zoning concept for those areas, which will be the basis for Comprehensive Plan and zoning code amendments
  Study Areas
Mixed-Use B-2 Overlay District (e/o Biscayne on 163 and West Dixie n/o 172)
Health Care Innovation District (around Jackson North)
NE 167/163 Mixed-Use Corridor (bet. NE 8 and 10 Avenues and possibly portions of unincorporated MDC).
NE 19 Avenue Corridor (n/o City Hall to Miami Gardens Drive)
Chinatown (162 Street bet. 12 and 15 Avenues)

6. PROJECT APPROACH IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY
Our research analysis, regulatory review & community coordination will guide the Implementation Strategy:
Critical Components of the Strategy:
Strategy and recommendations are sound and economically feasible
The community is directly involved in the process and concept/renderings are vetted by stakeholders
Provide the City with a clear understanding of potential options to effectuate new development
Confirm that any investment/participation made by the City results in measurable public benefit
Implementation Strategy provides an effective blueprint for evaluating redevelopment opportunities in the future

7. PROJECT APPROACH PARCEL ANALYSIS
Provide comprehensive understanding of underlying economic conditions within each distinct district
Build upon momentum resulting from recent regulatory/planning initiatives
Identify both short- and long-term demand for multitude of uses driving redevelopment in each district
Assess the highest and best use opportunities for key parcels within each district
Testing alternative options through financial evaluation
Ensure we provide planning team with the tools needed to formulate most effective regulatory/zoning concepts
Also, provide the resident and stakeholder community with the information being used to make informed decisions

8. PROJECT APPROACH TRANSIT ORIENTED CORRIDOR/DISTRICT STRATEGIES
COMPLETE STREETS AND MULTIMODAL CONNECTIVITY
Understand the multimodal elements of the roadway
Connect the Transit Oriented Corridors/Districts to further redevelopment goals
Context Sensitive, Livable, Walkable, Bikeable Design Elements
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
Analyze existing and underutilized densities and intensities within each Corridor/District
Strategies and recommendations for protecting neighborhoods
Provide recommendations for other changes to Comprehensive Plan
LAND DEVELOPMENT AND ZONING CODE
Provide recommendations for Zoning Code changes per Amendments
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Individual/Group Interviews, Community Workshops, Public Officials and Community Representatives Roundtable, Public Hearing Process, Project Website and Social Media

9. URBAN DESIGN AND GRAPHICS EXPERIENCE

10. PROJECT SCHEDULING PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
Use of real-time monitoring software to manage team progress
Continuous resource tracking and management based on staff utilization and availability
Reallocation of staff to meet necessary deadlines
Identification of project challenges in advance
Monitor project progress against schedule and estimated completion date and budget

11. PROJECT SCHEDULING MAJOR MILESTONE COMPLETION
Individual Public Officials and Staff Interviews, Project Strategy
May, 2017
Community Workshops & Survey
Workshop 1 & 2
Community Survey
Develop Project Website, E-Newsletter
June, 2017
Complete analysis and provide draft Comprehensive Plan amendment package to staff for review including:
Proposed Amendments to the GOPs
FLUM Amendments
GIS maps
Data and Analysis
August, 2017
Complete analysis and provide draft Zoning and Land Development amendment package to staff for review including:
Proposed Text Amendments to the Zoning Code (Section 24.58) to add new Districts
Zoning Map Amendments
Graphics
August – September, 2017

12. PROJECT SCHEDULING (Continued…)
MAJOR MILESTONE
COMPLETION
Public Hearings
LPA Hearing
Transmittal package and presentation at public hearing (Council – 1st Reading)
Adoption package and presentation at public hearing (Council – 2nd Reading)
Summary list of future code amendments
Final copy to City after NOI issued by DEO
October – December, 2017
Adoption package and presentation at public hearing (Council – 1st and 2nd Readings)
Final copy to City after Adoption
November – December, 2017
FINAL ADOPTION
December, 2017

13. SIMILAR PROJECT EXPERIENCE
CITY OF TAMARAC
University and McNab Corridor Redevelopment Study
Purpose: Provide a sustainable commercial redevelopment plan to create sub-districts along University Drive and McNab Road for focused redevelopment.
Results:
Capitalized on assets such as University Hospital and Tamarac Commerce Park;
Created a hospital district expansion area;
Allowed for additional workforce housing and retail to serve hospital district;
Permitted the conversion of strip malls to more intense commercial development;
Permitted zoning changes that provided for transit-ready and transit-oriented development; and
Economic Development and Market Study determined feasible uses.

14. SIMILAR PROJECT EXPERIENCE
TOWN OF SURFSIDE
Collings/Harding Corridor Analysis
Purpose: Prepare criteria to help guide future development into the desired development pattern without increasing overall densities or intensities along the corridor.
Results:
Prepared new zoning criteria and reviewed existing conditions;
Strategies relating to mid-block accessibility, walkways and overall pedestrian activity including design criteria;
Consistency between new criteria and Comprehensive Plan;
Revised open space requirements for landscaping and public spaces; and
Solid, legally defensible plan.

15. SIMILAR PROJECT EXPERIENCE
CITY OF HOLLYWOOD
Sheridan Station-side Village transit-oriented development
Purpose: Create a diverse, transit oriented urban village along the Sheridan Street Corridor adjacent to the Sheridan Street Tri-Rail Station.
Results:
Amendments to change the land use designation from low medium residential (6-10 units/acre), industrial and transportation to transit-oriented development;
A true mixed-use development integrating the existing Tri-Rail station as a transit hub along with other providers such as Broward County Transit;
A diverse urban village that fosters a live, work, play and ride atmosphere;
A 6-acre park within a Live Oak hammock on the site’s southern portion, while preserving a historic coral rock house; and
Leveraging state lands to create a new development compatible with mass transit.

16. SIMILAR PROJECT EXPERIENCE
CITY OF WEST PARK
SR 7/441 Transit Oriented Corridor Zoning
Purpose: Prepare a Transit Oriented Corridor future land use amendment and zoning change for the City.
Results:
A Form Based inspired code that provided a necessary mix of land uses, density and design that promotes transit usage.
Consistency with the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Regional Market Study conducted for SR 441 and charrette master plan.
Compatibility with existing single-family areas that abut the corridor.

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