Exhibit B - 1 - City of Bakersfield

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City of
Bakersfield
Downtown Bakersfield
California High Speed Rail
Station Area Plan
Response to Request for Proposal
for Professional Services
Submitted 24 August 2015
Ms. Jacquelyn R. Kitchen, Planning Director
Community Development
Department Planning Commission
1715 Chester Avenue
Bakersfield, CA 93301
Submitted by
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
in collaboration with
Nelson\Nygaard, HR&A Advisors,
Rincon Consultants, Arellano Associates,
and Place It!
SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL LLP
555 WEST 5TH STREET, SUITE 2900
LOS ANGELES, CA 90013
24 August 2015
Ms. Jacquelyn R. Kitchen, Planning Director
Community Development
Department Planning Commission
1715 Chester Avenue
Bakersfield, CA 93301
Re: Request for Proposal for Professional Services to Prepare a California High Speed Rail Station Area Plan in
It is with great enthusiasm that Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) submits this Request for Proposals
response in the interest of being selected as a Prime Contractor for your Downtown Bakersfield High Speed Rail
Station Area Plan. Our firm, one of the country’s longest continuously operating and most critically acclaimed
design firms has, from its inception, been a fully integrated multidisciplinary practice. Planning and urban design
remains a core discipline within our firm, which is also distinguished by its architecture, engineering, interior
design, and environmental graphics skills. Additionally, our transportation practice has worked on some of the
world’s largest infrastructure projects, and understands the influence transportation systems have on how we
design and build our cities.
SOM and its multidisciplinary consultant teams have provided station area plans and other transit-oriented
development services to our clients that includes every single element in the outlined scope you have
developed. With the support of our team collaborators, Nelson\Nygaard, HR&A Advisors, Rincon Consultants,
Arellano Associates and Place It!, we know that we can successfully complete the station area and economic
development plan for the future Downtown Bakersfield High Speed Rail Station. The success of our team’s
recent work is enabled not just by our pursuit of design excellence, but by the importance we place on all
aspects of project management. The increasing complexity of transportation, urban design and planning
projects, the result of the appropriately expanded range of issues they must address, time imperatives, and
the ever evolving funding mechanisms and constraints has placed corresponding demands on the skill and
sophistication of project management tools and methods, and on the professionals who employ them. The
repeated success SOM lead consultant teams has been able to provide to our clients across the United States
and around the world is owed in large measure to the importance we place on this aspect of our work.
We believe sound planning and design thinking is elevated to levels of excellence when it reflects the particular
cultural and geographic characteristics of the place in which it is set. Familiarity and engagement with people
and the place are, therefore, critically important. Our 60-person Los Angeles office has demonstrated an
exceptional understanding of and commitment to this principle of civic engagement and innovation. Led by
Gunnar Hand, AICP, Project Manager, this project will be developed out of our LA office and supported by a highly
skilled and experienced team of design and management professionals across the country and the world.
As the Director of our firm’s LA Office, I would like to emphasize the deep personal commitment to
professionalism, excellence and sense of accountability that each key member of our team brings to this project.
We welcome the opportunity to perform these professional services for this Request for Proposals, and we will
take great pride in delivering your project at a level of distinguished service to the City of Bakersfield. If you
have any questions regarding the enclosed materials, please do not hesitate to contact me at (213) 327-2410,
[email protected].
Respectfully submitted,
Michael Mann, FAIA
Managing Director
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© SK I DM O RE, OWI NGS & M ERR IL L L L P 20 1 5
CITY OF BAKERSFIELD
Response to Request for Proposal
for Professional Services
California High Speed Rail Station Area Plan
24 August 2015
1.Professional Team and Qualifications 6
Firm Profile
Project Team
Relevant Experience
2. Project Approach and Work Schedule
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3.Cost of Services
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4.Indemnification and Insurance
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5.Current Volume of Work 89
6.Conflict of Interest
D OW NTOW N BA K E RSFIEL D CAL IFORNIA HIGH SPEED RAIL STAT I O N AREA P L AN - RF P RES P O NSE
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1. PROFESSIONAL TEAM AND QUALIFICATIONS
SOM FIRM PROFILE
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is one of the
leading architecture, urban planning and design,
structural and civil engineering, interior design and
sustainable design firms in the world, with a nearly 80
year reputation for design excellence and a portfolio
that includes some of the most important design
accomplishments of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Since its inception SOM has been a leader in
the research and development of specialized
technologies, new processes and innovative ideas,
many of which have had a palpable and lasting
impact on the design profession and the physical
environment. The firm’s longstanding leadership in
design and building technology has been honored with
more than 1,700 awards for quality, innovation and
management. The American Institute of Architects
has recognized SOM twice with its highest honor, the
Architecture Firm Award, in 1962 and again in 1996.
The firm maintains offices in New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., London,
Hong Kong, Shanghai and Abu Dhabi.
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SOM has a proven track record of successfully
completing design services on a multitude of
development projects that we have undertaken across
the world. Our experience collaborating as a team –
along with our multidisciplinary expertise – strengthens
our approach. The resulting projects are timeless, highquality buildings that resonate with our clients’ business
objectives and the community at large.
We meet each project’s specific challenges with a
unique solution that integrates the work of many
design disciplines—a holistic approach that synthesizes
programming, design, and technical coordination to
create some of the world’s most innovative, functional,
and memorable architectural experiences.
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URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING
SOM’s master plans have received
worldwide recognition for their
vision, innovation, responsiveness to
local cultural traditions, setting, and
climate, and their inherent feasibility.
Because of this, virtually all of SOM’s
major development projects are
being implemented or have been
successfully completed.
The City Design Practice at SOM is one of the most respected and
recognized professional groups in the urban planning and design
field. Our individual credentials and areas of expertise; experience
with projects varying in scale from the regional down to small,
town center place-making efforts; and a position at the forefront
of computer imaging applications in urban design, all combine
to provide a thoughtful, sensitive, cost effective and powerful
response to our client’s needs.
SOM provides complete planning and urban design solutions that
address the full range of opportunities and constraints found in
major development: site conditions and context, environmental
issues, marketplace demand, regulatory and community issues,
financing and infrastructure.
SOM’s City Design Practice is diverse and collaborative,
accustomed to straddling disciplinary boundaries in working to
a common goal. We are accustomed to creating these sorts of
relationships with diverse groups that, in combination, represent
the ambitions of our clients, the general public, and the region as a
whole. Relevant projects include the following:
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Denver Union Station
All Aboard Florida
ParkMerced Vision Plan
Long Beach Civic Center Master Plan
Chicago Lakeside Master Plan
Philadelphia 30th Street Station Master Plan
Tianjin High-Speed Rail Station
SOM’s City Design Practice demonstrates a unique ability to
combine global perspective with local values to create flexible
projects and plans that can be implemented over the long-term.
Our planners and designers have been charged with creating
solutions at every level of development. Perhaps the most
important element of our approach to urban design and planning
assignments is to assemble a team of individuals who are not only
leaders in their respective fields, but who are also noted for their
ability to work creatively with multi-disciplinary teams to sift out
ideas and give them shape. These people bring the highest level of
creativity and thinking to beat on the questions of community and
placemaking.
In addition to our broad range of in-house capabilities, we also
excel at collaboration with outside firms. SOM has a long history
of collaborating with other architects and designers, owner’s
consultants and our own consultant specialists. A key to the
success of the urban design and planning process is identifying
a team that can collaborate successfully to prepare a focused
master plan that meets the needs of your project.
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Left Column:
Denver Union Station
All Aboard Florida
ParkMerced Vision Plan
Long Beach Civic Center Master Plan
Right Column:
Chicago Lakeside Master Plan
Philadelphia 30th Street Station Master Plan
Tianjin High-Speed Rail Station
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INNOVATION AND ACCLAIM
SOM has won more awards than any
other architecture firm. SOM has
received six AIA National 25-Year Awards,
in recognition of its buildings that have
stood the test of time and exemplify
design of enduring significance.
The firm’s longstanding leadership in design and building
technology has been honored with more than 1,700 awards for
quality, innovation, and management. The American Institute of
Architects has twice recognized SOM with its highest honor, the
Architecture Firm Award—in 1962 and again in 1996. In the past
year, we have received numerous awards and been featured in
several notable publications.
SOM IN NUMBERS
1,700
Awards for Design and innovation
134
Active LEED Projects
79
Years of Design Leadership
62
National AIA Honor Awards
(More than any other firm to date)
14 AIA Chapter 25 Year Awards
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AIA National 25 Year Awards
Top and Middle Row:
A+U - Issue 533 dedicated to One SOM
Bottom Row:
Architect Magazine, R&D Awards
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SOM PROJECT TEAM
SOM pioneered the integration of
various design specialties in order to
provide complete and comprehensive
services to our clients. This multidisciplinary approach has led us to
develop innovative technical solutions
that have expanded the boundaries of
planning, architecture, urban design,
and engineering.
The SOM team’s (Nelson\Nygaard, HR&A Advisors, Rincon
Consultants Inc., Arellano Associates and Place It!) multidisciplinary capabilities include extensive experience in community
public outreach & engagement, community planning & urban
design, integrated multimodal transportation systems, FRA
coordination, economic development, transit-oriented development,
and environmental sciences, among other disciplines.
SOM’s team provides a comprehensive range of services that will
address the opportunities and constraints found in your project,
including:
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City and Regional Planning and Design
Community and Neighborhood Planning and Design
Reuse / Preservation Planning and Design
Transit-Oriented Development Planning and Design
Transit Corridor and Alignment Studies
Transportation Facilities Planning and Design
Parking Demand Management Analysis
Open Space Planning and Design
Streetscape Planning and Design
Economic Development Analysis and Planning
Urban Data Analysis and Simulation
Public Outreach and Engagement
Environmental Planning and Analysis
The materials we have included in this proposal highlight the
breadth of work we have completed, the success we have had with
engaging local constituents and our ability to manage complex
and time-sensitive projects through successful completion, all
of which is directly relevant to the services you are seeking. We
believe this experience and perspective benefits the services we can
provide to the City of Bakersfield in a number of complementary
ways. It provides us with a valuable yardstick against which to
measure what Bakersfield has done and is doing in the emerging
field of High Speed Rail Transit-Oriented Communities (TOC), and
develop transformative and innovative ways in which to achieve
your goals and ambitions. Our portfolio of work provides us with
opportunities to constantly evaluate and create new best practices
in transportation, open space, and digital city modeling, in addition
to expanding our own in-house expertise and capabilities.
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TRANSIT-ORIENTED COMMUNITIES
DIGITAL CITY MODELING
As part of SOM’s Ground Transportation Group, Kristopher
Takacs, AIA, directed the development and execution of the
Denver Union Station Hub and Transit-Oriented Development
(TOD). Recognized for his broad cross section of interactions with
public institutions and authorities, private-sector developers and
public-private partnerships, Kristopher shapes compact, livable,
sustainable communities around integrated transportation
systems, smart infrastructure, and creative TODs. The
transformation of the underutilized former rail yards in Denver,
converted lower downtown Denver into an urban mixed-use,
transit-oriented and regional transportation hub in 2014.
SOM’s use of digital modeling dates back almost 30 years. Today,
the tools and techniques of 3D modeling have become ubiquitous
and so has geometric data representing the physical form of
buildings. Unfortunately, many of these tools are used solely to
visualize physical forms and much of the data is inconsistent, badly
organized, and inaccurate. Our recent work in urban modeling has
focused on adding data and intelligence to newly constructed digital
models in the form of internally embedded metadata, externally
linked databases, and custom scripts or programs to analyze
and make meaningful conclusions from complex geometries and
regulations or codes.
He and other members of the Transportation Group have also
worked on All Aboard Florida, the planning and architectural
design of four intercity passenger rail stations and associated
transit-oriented developments in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West
Palm Beach and Orlando, currently under construction, as well
as Hudson Crossing at Hoboken Terminal, a master plan to
redevelop NJ TRANSIT’s 65-acre rail yard by weaving together
fragmented modes of public transit. This framework plan provides
the opportunity for significant investment, economic expansion,
environmental clean-up and transformational urban design with 8
acres of new parks and plazas, a kilometer long urban boulevard
and new residential district.
In 2006, SOM began construction of the San Francisco Digital
Context model, a comprehensive model of the geometry and
geography of San Francisco. SOM’s Digital Design Group lead
the effort to construct a robust framework of GIS cartography
and legislative data using a unique process to adapt interpolated
contour data to the specific built form of a city, the model covers the
entire city at varying levels of detail and accuracy. Similar principles
have recently been extended to create an interactive digital model
of the city of Chicago for an exhibit mounted by the Chicago
Architecture Foundation (CAF) called “Chicago: City of Big Data”.
OPEN SPACE
Alan Lewis, AIA, firmwide practice leader for Open Space, was
formerly a principal with the distinguished landscape architecture
firm Hargreaves Associates. Alan’s experience makes him an
extraordinary asset in any assignment that includes a public
open space design or construction component, including
complete, green streets, linear parks and bikeways, and urban
parks and placemaking. For the six years prior to joining SOM,
Alan successfully partnered with our City Design Practice on
numerous urban planning and design assignments in the Bay
Area and across the globe. As the most valuable open space
asset, Bakersfield’s right of ways are critical to the successful
multimodal integration of the future High Speed Rail station into
the fabric of downtown and the region.
Large-scale digital modeling has already transitioned from a purely
geometric approach to one that combines realistic and accurate
geometry with a bigger set of data from a wide range of sources.
Visualization and analysis of this data is enabled by tools and
platforms like the San Francisco and Chicago digital models, and
we are now integrating the use of such data sets to drive planning
and design in a rational and sustainable direction, balancing the
traditional role of human intuition with easily customized and
communicated analyses.
SOM Team Contact Information
Gunnar Hand, AICP
Senior Urban Designer
555 West 5th Street, Suite 2900
Los Angeles, CA 90013
P: (213) 327-2400
F: (310) 817-6346
Email: [email protected]
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SOM PROJECT TEAM (CONTINUED)
Total Personnel By Discipline
SOM
Management2
Transportation2
City Design4
CONSULTANTS
Nelson\Nygaard - Multimodal Connectivity4
HR&A Advisors - Economic & Financial Planning 2
Environmental Analysis
- Rincon Consultants4
Arellano Associates - Public Outreach & Education 4
Place It! - Public Engagement1
TOTAL23
Principal-in-Charge and Project Manager Involvement
Michael Mann, Managing Director for SOM’s Los Angeles office
will serve as the Principal-in-Charge for the duration of the
project. He will provide support to and for the Project Manager,
Gunnar Hand, AICP, also in SOM’s Los Angeles office. Michael’s
extensive project management, contract and administration
experience will facilitate a timely and orderly planning process.
As project manager, Gunnar’s involvement in the project will
be hands on from start to finish. He will serve as the point of
contact to the client, and the lead for the entire project team,
including scheduling, task coordination, and invoicing. He will also
participate in planning and design tasks, facilitate internal team
meetings, be the primary presenter for the consultant team at
public meetings, and coordinate all project deliverables.
TEAM ORGANIZATION CHART
City of Bakersfield
SOM Management
SOM Transportation
SOM City Design
Michael Mann, FAIA
Principal-in-Charge
Jed Zimmerman, AIA, LEED® AP
Transportation Director
Ellen Lou, FAIA, AICP, LEED® AP BD+C
Urban Design and Planning Director
Gunnar Hand, AICP
Project Manager
Kristopher Takács, AIA
Transportation Associate Director
Alan Lewis, AIA
Open Space Practice Leader
Andrea Wong, AICP
Senior Planner
Allison Alberrici, AIA, AICP
LEED® AP BD+C
Urban Designer
Consultants
MULTIMODAL CONNECTIVITY
ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL PLANNING
ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS
Nelson\Nygaard
HR&A Advisors Inc
Rincon Consultants, Inc.
PUBLIC OUTREACH & EDUCATION
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Arellano Associates
VMA Communications, Inc.
Place It!
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1. SOM TE A M R ESU M ES
MICHAEL MANN, FAIA, NCARB
Principal-in-Charge
Michael Mann brings invaluable
perspective, expertise and insight to
the design and delivery process. Having
performed virtually every role during
his career, he effectively assembles and
directs project teams through all phases
of the design/construction process.
Michael’s accomplishments are evident
in his significant roster of world class
buildings, totaling over 55 million sf.
His expert knowledge and experience
in executing fast-track projects while
maintaining design excellence has
consistently earned Mr. Mann the deepest
respect of his peers and the confidence
of his clients. His projects have earned
numerous AIA and other industry awards
in addition to being widely published.
Education
Master of Architecture, University of Oklahoma
Bachelor of Science, Environmental Design,
University of Oklahoma
Professional Registration
Registered Architect: California, Texas, New York
National Council of Architectural Registration
Boards (NCARB) Certified
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Michael’s distinguished professional
career began at SOM, where he was
Senior Designer and Team Leader for
the 71-story Wells Fargo Plaza project
in Houston. This early experience
set the stage for his role as Project
Manager throughout his career on such
notable commissions as the 52-story
Gas Company Tower in Los Angeles,
the AIA award winning BMC Software
Headquarters in Houston and the Santa
Monica headquarters for RAND, the great
American think tank. Michael was elected
to the American Institute of Architect’s
distinguished College of Fellows in 2003.
Select Projects
Long Beach Civic Center
Long Beach, California
The new Long Beach Civic Center,
located in the heart of downtown Long
Beach, includes a 270,000 sf City Hall,
93,500 sf Main Library, 232,000 sf Port
Headquarters, a revitalization of the
209,000 sf historic Lincoln Park, as well
as a master plan for 800 residential
units and 50,000 sf of commercial
development. The target LEED® Platinum
Civic Center optimizes quality of space,
efficient operations and maintenance. In
order to promote a vibrant rejuvenated
downtown, the Civic Center’s urban
design emphasizes public, city & site
connections.
New United States Courthouse Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
This new 633,000 sf courthouse contains 24
courtrooms and 32 judges’ chambers and is
located on a highly visible block in downtown
Los Angeles. Targeted for LEED® Platinum
certification, SOM’s design optimizes the
courts program and workflow and promotes
efficient operations and maintenance. An
innovative structural engineering concept
allows the cubic volume to “float” over a
stone base while being one of the Nation’s
safest buildings relating to earthquakes and
bomb threats.
Sunset | La Cienega
Two parcels located on a prominent stretch
of Sunset Boulevard. The East Parcel
consists of two high-rise guest towers
connected by public spaces at grade and
on the plaza level. The design will provide
for approximately 296 keys, and includes
pool decks, ballroom and other public
function and meeting spaces. The Middle
Parcel is a residential complex of two
high-rise towers connected with below
grade parking levels, a one-story retail
podium, and landscaped open spaces.
6701 Sunset Blvd
Hollywood, California
SOM is developing a master plan and
concept designs in support of the
entitlement process, for the Crossroads
of the World site, a historic Hollywood,
California landmark. Targeted for LEED®
Gold certification, the seven-acre mixed-use
development revitalizes 60,000 sf of the
original Robert V. Derrah-designed buildings
and constructs a 31-story, 308-key hotel, a
32-story apartment tower, and a 30-story
condominium tower. The project adds 950
units of housing, 185,000 sf of new retail
space, and 95,000 sf of creative office space.
Antigua Planta Kodak Master Plan
Guadalajara, Mexico
SOM’s master plan of this large-scale,
mixed-use, phased development in
the center of Guadalajara proposes
reconnecting the site to the adjacent
urban grid. Phase 1 will contain a retail
area with pedestrian oriented streets
including food and beverage programs
as well as outdoor fashion retail that
links the site’s primary southerly access
street to the central park and commercial
offices. Later phases will include
residential units and a medical campus.
GUNNAR HAND, AICP
Project Manager
Gunnar Hand is a city and regional
planner, and passionate all-around
community organizer. He has cultivated
his interest in the built environment from
a young age and transformed it into
action and positive change. From starting
his own property reinvestment business
and launching several rail-based transit
advocacy non-profits, to promoting clean
energy alternatives and neighborhood
improvements on various boards, Gunnar
is a problem solver. He is deeply engaged
in his community, building partnerships
and working to improve the quality of life
for the many places he has called home.
Gunnar is always expanding his
knowledge and understanding of the built
environment and civic systems in order
to find new ways to make them better.
As an urban planner, he understands
that functional, integrated and equitable
communities can foster a higher quality
of life for all people. Gunnar seeks to
facilitate, create and design places that
have a positive and sustainable impact on
society and the world.
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Education
Bachelor of Environmental Design,
University of Colorado
Masters of Science in City and Regional Planning,
Pratt Institute
Professional Affiliations
American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP)
NextRail KC
Kansas City, Missouri
The expansion plan for Kansas City’s
Downtown Streetcar starter line, which is
currently under construction. The project
included the analysis of eight potential
routes and corridors based on community
support, economic benefit, environmental
impact and overall feasibility. An
expansive public outreach campaign
was conducted to identify community
priorities, build corridor champions
and create a prioritization process to
select the most appropriate phase two
expansion project based on Federal
funding criteria.
Transit-Oriented Development Plan
A citywide Transit-Oriented Development
(TOD) plan that included design
guidelines, policy updates, the
coordination of financial incentives
and capital improvements, the creation
of a TOD overlay ordinance, and a
comprehensive implementation strategy
to facilitates quality development around
streetcar, bus rapid transit and other
modes along designated transit corridors.
Durango STEAM Park Feasibility Study
Durango, Colorado
The Science, Theatre, Education, Arts and
Music (STEAM) Cultural Park Feasibility
Study evaluated the potential success of a
proposed facility through three (community
capacity, site & building, and funding &
operation) different analyses in order to
develop a comprehensive picture of Durango
and its cultural needs, its community’s
wants and conditions, and its economic
landscape. Using objective methods to
investigate the strengths and weaknesses
of the proposed project, the Feasibility
Study answered a series of questions by
documenting its findings and included
recommendations for the future and longterm cultural opportunities of the region.
Transform KC
As a collaboration between the Kansas City
Regional Transit Alliance and the KC Chapter
of the American Institute of Architects,
the project explored the transformative
impact of rail-based transit on the built
environment. The effort included the
conception, development and design of an
outreach, education and communication
program yielding a Call for Ideas, a traveling
exhibition and project website. Transform
KC traveled to 5 different locations in
its first year and engaged a wide range
of communities, elected-officials and
decision-makers in a conversation about the
emerging role of transit to the sustainable
growth of the region.
Los Angeles County General Plan
The long-range, comprehensive policy
document serves as the development guide
for over 2,600 square miles and the one
million residents of Los Angeles County.
The plan covered land use, transportation,
sustainability, public health, parks and open
spaces, and other critical elements. A robust
and multi-lingual community outreach and
education effort was established to create
buy-in for the planning process, as well as
gather the public’s ideas in order to create a
shared vision of the future for their diverse
communities.
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JED ZIMMERMAN, AIA, LEED ® AP
Transportation Director
With over 27 years of experience,
Jed Zimmerman brings invaluable
perspective, expertise and insight to
the design and delivery process. Having
performed virtually every role in the
design process during his career, he
effectively assembles and coordinates
project teams and directs all phases of
the design and construction process. Jed
facilitates each detail of communication
between team members and consultants
by continually integrating his design skills
and experience into the management of
each project and by acting as the primary
client contact.
Jed has worked on both the design
and management sides associated
with airport, rail-transit facilities,
corporate, commercial, industrial, tenant
improvements and residential projects
throughout the country.
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Education
Bachelor of Architecture, Southern California Institute of Architecture
Registered Architect: California, Hawaii, Virginia
LEED® Accredited Professional
Member, American Institute of Architects, (AIA)
Long Beach Civic Center
The new Long Beach Civic Center,
located in the heart of downtown Long
Beach, includes a 270,000 sf City Hall,
93,500 sf Main Library, 232,000 sf Port
Headquarters, a revitalization of the
209,000 sf historic Lincoln Park, as well
as a master plan for 800 residential
units and 50,000 sf of commercial
development. The target LEED® Platinum
Civic Center optimizes quality of space,
efficient operations and maintenance. In
order to promote a vibrant rejuvenated
downtown, the Civic Center’s urban
design emphasizes public, city & site
connections.
LAX Pedestrian Bridge Prototypes
Managed the architectural and structural
design study and analysis incorporating
new pedestrian bridges within the
Central Terminal Area (CTA) which
connect the parking structures to the
terminals. Through coordination with
the LAX executive committee, the study
introduced innovative structural modular
designs based on aviation and automotive
technologies, fabrication, phasing, and
erection, which could be implemented
to replace all of the existing pedestrian
bridges within the CTA. The overall
bridge aesthetic reinforces a new design
paradigm within the CTA.
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Select projects Prior to SOM
California High Speed Train Stations
San Jose to San Francisco, California
Five Multimodaltrain stations for the high
speed train connecting San Jose to San
Francisco. Prior to SOM..
2nd/Hope Street Station - METRO
Regional Connector
Prior to SOM.
Santa Monica/Vermont Station,
Metro Red Line, RCC/MTA
Prior to SOM.
City of Orange Rail Station and Depot
Building - Metrolink
Orange, California
Prior to SOM.
City of Norwalk/City of Santa Fe Springs
Transportation Center - Metrolink
Norwalk, California
Prior to SOM.
City of San Clemente Rail Station
Metrolink
San Clemente, California
Prior to SOM.
City of San Buena Ventura Montalvo Rail
Station – Metrolink
Montalvo, California
Prior to SOM.
City of Covina Rail Station - Metrolink
Covina, California
Prior to SOM.
Burbank Airport Rail Station - Metrolink
Burbank, California
Prior to SOM.
Renovation of City of Santa Ana
Transportation Center - Metrolink
Santa Ana, California
Prior to SOM.
NEC High Speed Maintenance Facility
AMTRAK
Washington, DC
115,000 sf. Prior to SOM.
NEC High Speed Maintenance Facility
AMTRAK
Boston, Massachusetts
60,000 sf. Prior to SOM.
KRISTOPHER JON TAKÁCS, AIA
Transportation Associate Director
Kristopher Jon Takács, AIA, an Associate
Director in SOM’s New York City
transportation practice, brings fifteen years
of professional experience focused on the
management of innovative master plans,
urban designs and comprehensive design
services for landmark buildings, districts,
cities and regions. He is recognized for
his leadership in shaping compact, livable
and sustainable communities built around
integrated transportation systems, smart
infrastructure, creative transit-oriented
development and a high-quality public
realm.
Kristopher supports a broad cross section of
public institutions and authorities, privatesector developers, and public-private
partnerships. He has been responsible
for managing multi-disciplinary teams
and consultants, assuring that the work is
on schedule, within budget, and meeting
expectations for quality.
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Education
Bachelor of Architecture, Pratt Institute,
School of Architecture
Bachelor of Arts in History and Architecture, Lehigh University
Lady Margaret Hall Oxford Associate Exchange Programme, Oxford University
Registered Architect: New York, New Jersey
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB)
Professional Associations
Member, American Institute of Architects
Member, Urban Land Institute (ULI)
Member, Regional Plan Association (RPA)
US High Speed Rail Association (USHSR)
Member, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Board of Directors, International School of Brooklyn
All Aboard Florida
Multiple Locations, Florida
Architecture and planning for four intercity
passenger rail stations and associated
transit-oriented developments in Miami, Fort
Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Orlando.
Denver Union Station Hub +
Transit-Oriented Development
Denver, Colorado
Master planning and design for the
transformation of underutilized and
underdeveloped former rail yards at the
historic Union Station in Lower Downtown
into a mixed-use, urban transit-oriented
development and regional transportation
hub for the State’s FasTracks program, 42
acres, 1,623,000 sf.
Hudson Crossing at Hoboken Terminal
Hoboken, New Jersey
Master plan to redevelop NJ TRANSIT’s
65-acre operating rail yard by weaving
together five fragmented modes of public
transit and providing a framework for
significant private investment, economic
expansion, environmental clean-up and
transformational urban design. The plan
envisions over 9 million sf of new mixeduse development, including a high-density
commercial core in the air rights behind
the terminal, a new residential district,
kilometer-long urban boulevard, and 8 acres
of new parks and plazas, 2,000,000 sf.
Cortland Street #1 Subway Station
New York, New York
Planning and design services to restore
MTA’s Cortlandt Street 1 Subway Station
to full revenue service by integrating the
transit facility with the evolving designs
for the permanent PATH Hub, Greenwich
Street utilities and infrastructure, National
9/11 Memorial, and 10 million sf of private
development.
Caltrain Rail Station Facility Handbook
San Mateo, California
Station design handbook for the San
Francisco Peninsula Joint Powers Board
Transportation Authority. Duties included
inspecting, evaluating and cataloging
existing Caltrain stations and developing
system-wide guidelines for station
modernization and planning considerations
for new facilities. This effort considered all
aspects of standardizing station design
including passenger amenities, access,
safety and security, aesthetic and graphic
treatments, signage, communications and
barrier-free design.
NJ TRANSIT Morris & Essex Lines
Station Rehabilitation Master Planning
Various Locations, New Jersey
Supervised a multi-consultant team in
the production of improvement master
plans (IMPs) for 21 commuter rail stations
located in Morris and Essex Counties.
Stations included Newark Broad Street, East
Orange, Brick Church, Orange, Highland
Avenue, Mountain Station, South Orange,
Maplewood, Millburn, Short Hills, Chatham,
Madison, Convent Station, Morristown,
Morris Plains, Mt. Tabor, Watsessing Avenue,
Bloomfield, and Glen Ridge. Prepared
concept designs to achieve ADA compliance
and historic rehabilitation. Duties also
included consideration of adaptive re-use
and/or income-generating potential
for under-utilized facilities. Prepared
construction cost estimates and phasing
plans into a cohesive program for capital
improvements planning.
SNCF Gare de Nîmes
Nîmes, France
Developed contemporary details to adapt
the historic passenger rail station for
high-speed rail (TGV) service, in conjunction with the 2001 opening of France’s
TGV Méditerranée line between Paris and
Marseille.
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ELLEN LOU, FAIA, AICP, LEED® BD+C
Urban Design and Planning Director
Education
Master of City Planning & Master of Science, Architecture Studies,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Architecture (Honors),
National University of Singapore
Professional Registrations
Licensed Architect: California
Registered Architect: Republic of Singapore
LEED® Accredited Professional BD+C
American Planning Association
Fellow, American Institute of Architects
Urban Land Institute
San Francisco Planning and Urban Design Research Association (SPUR), Board Member
Society for College and University Planning
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Ellen Lou is a licensed architect and
certified city planner, currently serving as
the Director of Urban Design and Planning
in SOM’s San Francisco office. Ellen has
directed many world-renowned urban
design and planning efforts in the United
States and several Pacific Rim countries.
Her areas of specialization include
urban, brown-field reuse, new towns/
new communities master plans, historic
revitalization and campus master plans.
Transbay Redevelopment Area Design for
Development
San Francisco, California
Development plan and architectural
guidelines for the last major redevelopment
area within walking distance of San
Francisco’s central business district. The
plan envisions pedestrian friendly, transit
oriented development that links downtown
to the waterfront and establishes guidelines
for buildings that enrich the neighborhood.
Ellen is particularly skilled in developing
innovative ideas to address challenging
urban planning contexts and to guide
development interests that result in
public benefit. She is committed to
integrating sustainable features into the
developments she is working on. Tenets
of sustainable planning that she adheres
to include creating pedestrian-friendly
and transit-oriented developments,
integrating elements of site features with
development needs, and engendering a
sense of identity rooted in the culture and
aspirations of the place.
Downtown South Height Feasibility Study
for San Francisco Transit
This feasibility study examined increased
height and density in the area immediately
surrounding the Transbay Terminal, a
multimodel transit center, to assist in the
economic support of implementing the
Terminal project.
Ellen is also active in civic and educational
outreach. She has lectured, served as
visiting instructor and guest critic for
architecture and urban design courses at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Stanford University, North Dakota
University, California Academy of Arts, and
University of California Berkeley. She has
also participated in community workshops
and design charrettes organized by the
San Francisco Planning Department and
the Association of Bay Area Government in
East Bay and San Francisco. Ellen serves
as a board member for San Francisco’s
Urban Planning and Research as well as
on the San Jose Downtown Architecture
Review Committee.
San Diego C Street Corridor
San Diego, California
A conceptual master plan for a 17-block
transit corridor linking San Diego’s Civic
Core with the East. The plan seeks to
redevelop the commercial corridor through
streetscape and transit improvements
combined with a land use and urban design
strategy to revitalize adjacent ground-floor
activity.
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Alameda Point Town Center and
Waterfront Precise Plan
Alameda, California
Proximity to San Francisco, an iconic
setting, and striking views make the former
NAS Alameda a prime opportunity for
redevelopment. At the core of the site, the
125-acre Town Center creates a compact,
transit-oriented, mixed-use urban hub
featuring a vibrant waterfront experience
that leverages unique character and existing
assets, through incremental intervention,
to catalyze transformation of the wider
Alameda Point area.
Parkmerced Vision Plan
Pioneering neighborhood revitalization
plan for the redevelopment of a 1950s
auto-centric housing project into a green
and vibrant mixed-used pedestrian and
transit village in San Francisco’s west
side. Over 5,000 new housing units,
including stacked flats, townhouses,
and midrise towers will be added to
approximately 3,000 existing tower apartments. Encompasses a comprehensive
and innovative long-term development
program based on the applied principles of
environmental sustainability.
The Future of Downtown San Jose
San Jose, California
After years of public investment in transit,
public realm improvements, Downtown
San Jose still lacks vibrancy and 24-hour
activity on a daily basis. This advocacy study
identified six key ideas to strengthen the
South Bay’s urban center by converting it
to a mixed-use, high-intensity, and friendlier
place for pedestrians, bicyclists, transit
riders and other alike. Additionally, by
developing it as the area’s cultural , entertainment and creative urban hub, Downtown
San Jose will garner the dynamism it so
richly deserves.
ALAN LEWIS, AIA
Associate Director
Open Space Practice Leader
Alan Lewis is a licensed architect with over
30 years of experience in the design and
construction of large scale projects for both
public and private clients. As an Open Space
Practice Leader, Alan’s concentrated focus is
on the improvement of the public realm and
urban open space environments.
Alan has been the Design Principal in Charge
for the Landscape Architect on numerous
SOM led projects such as the Baietan Urban
Design Master Plan in Guangzhou, the San
Jose Water Pollution Control Plant Master
Plan and the Fuzhou Haixi High Tech Area
and Riverfront Master Plans. In the design
of public environments, his work aims to
reinforce cultural and social connections to
place and its history, integrate destination
programs and activities to promote
pedestrian and ecological vitality, and
maintained a process working with client
and community stakeholders to build
consensus to keep projects moving forward.
Education
University of Tennessee School of Architecture
Bachelor of Architecture
Professional Registration & Affiliations
Registered Architect: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Member, American Institute of Architects
Member, SPUR San Francisco
Prior to joining SOM, Mr. Lewis provided
his leadership and expertise for the wellknown landscape architecture practice of
Hargreaves Associates. There he cultivated
extensive experience in the design and
construction of public plazas and urban
parks and maintained seamless continuity
between the architecture and urban design
intent with the open space components of
projects.
Zhuhai Gongbei Commercial
Development and Open Space
Master Plan
Zhuhai, China
Located within one of Zhuhai City’s main
urban centers, a central focus for this
project is the celebration of local culture
and the advancement of environmental
sustainability practices.
Pujiang County Gold Lion Lake
Master Plan
Pujiang, China
Jiangbei District and Riverfront
Master Plan
Nanjing, China
In collaboration with SOM
Confidential Tech Project Urban Design
Master Plan
Mountain View, California
Water Pollution Control Plant Lands and
Pond A18 Master Plan
Baietan Urban Design Master Plan
Guangzhou, China
Haihe Riverfront Concept Design
Tianjin China
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Confidential Mixed-Use Technology
Campus Master Plan
Mixed use technology campus, including
comprehensive conceptual land planning,
infrastructure analysis and design, phasing
and implementation efforts. Client, location,
cost and other details withheld at owners
request.
Kingwood Marina Development
Master Plan
Houston, Texas
Master plan for a high-end, ecologically
responsible destination located within the
Kingwood community in northeast Houston.
The project is composed of a residential,
resort and commercial district.
Baoding Technology City Vision Plan
Baoding, China
Vision plan for a 4 square kilometer core
development area while framing the future
development pattern of the larger Baoding
region with a 20 skm study area.
Yuxi Longshuitang Old Industrial Area
Concept Plan
Yuxi, China
Wuhan Financial Street Vision Plan
Wuhan, China
Raycom Changping Parcel Vision Plan
Beijing, China
Hanye Hengshan Island Development Plan
Zhuhai, China
Haixi High Tech Urban Design Master Plan
Fuzhou, China
Framing a Modern Masterpiece St. Louis
Arch Competition
St. Louis, MO
Hangzhou Financial Center Concept Design
Hangzhou, China
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ANDREA WONG, AICP
Associate Director
Senior Planner
Andrea Wong deftly balances her interests
and experience in architecture and urban
planning as a project manager for SOM’s
award-winning Urban Design and Planning
Studio. Having led planning projects
for municipalities on both the East and
West Coasts, Andrea is well-versed in
understanding complex public planning
processes.
Her work in the realms of economic
development, land-use entitlements, and
redevelopment enhances her understanding
of the challenging issues a project may
address. Andrea’s extensive community
engagement experience in the realms of
both client and user allows her to effectively
communicate concepts with clarity and to
work collaboratively across diverse sets of
project stakeholders.
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Education
Master of Urban Planning,
University of Michigan
Bachelor of Science in Art and Design
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Parkmerced Vision Plan
Pioneering neighborhood revitalization plan
for the redevelopment of a 1950s autocentric housing project into a green and
vibrant mixed-used pedestrian and transit
village in San Francisco’s west side. Over
5,000 new housing units, including stacked
flats, townhouses, and midrise towers will be
added to approximately 3,000 existing tower
apartments. Encompasses a comprehensive
and innovative long-term development
program based on the applied principles of
environmental sustainability.
San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution
Control Plant Master Plan
To develop an environmentally sensitive plan
that transforms surplus plant lands into a
system of bay, wetland, salt marsh, grass
land and area for economic development
while preserving the plant’s ability to
accomplish its long term mission.
Xilinx Master Plan
A master plan of a 31-acre campus for a
microprocessor research and development
firm. The plan proposes to transform a
multi-tenant business park into a coherent
research and development campus that
fosters creative thinking.
NASA Ames Research Park
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Moffett Field, California
A model for sustainable communities and
advanced green energy technology, this new
75-acre development will be dedicated to
the development of state-of-the-art research
and teaching laboratories, classrooms,
offices and housing.
Alameda, California
Proximity to San Francisco, an iconic
setting, and striking views make the former
NAS Alameda a prime opportunity for
redevelopment. At the core of the site, the
125-acre Town Center creates a compact,
transit-oriented, mixed-use urban hub
featuring a vibrant waterfront experience
that leverages unique character and existing
assets, through incremental intervention,
to catalyze transformation of the wider
Alameda Point area. Towards this end, the
Town Center and Waterfront Precise Plan
provides form-based standards for the
arrangement of public and private streets,
open space, infrastructure, and associated
development that reinforce the City of
Alameda’s goals for a mixed-use, visitorserving, waterfront community.
Treasure Island Design for Development
Urban design and architectural master
plan for manmade island in San Francisco
Bay. Transit-oriented plan concentrates
residential buildings—composed of a mix
of densities—near the ferry terminal and
preserves much of the island for an organic
farm, wetlands, and public open space.
Height Feasibility Study for Mayor’s
Study Group for Transbay Transit District
In support of the Transbay Design for
Development, this feasibility study examined
increased height and density in the area
immediately surrounding the Transbay
Terminal to assist in the economic support
of implementing the Terminal project.
Encinal Terminals Master Plan
Alameda, California
A conceptual master plan to transform
a 31-acre industrial site into a mixed-use
residential area along Alameda’s Northern
Waterfront. The design creates a vibrant
commercial heart with new residential
neighborhood which introduces new ideas
for urban waterfront living in the city.
ALLISON N. ALBERICCI, AIA, AICP,
LEED ® AP BD+C
Urban Designer
With over a decade of professional,
research and teaching experience
Allison’s expertise focuses on the design
of complex, mixed-use, hybrid and
transit-oriented development projects in
urban centers worldwide. A passionate
proponent of sustainable urbanism,
she brings an integrated and holistic
approach to optimizing performance at
all scales. Allison is a registered Architect,
a certified Planner,as well as a LEED®
Accredited Professional.
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Education
Master of Science in Architecture Studies
(SMArchS), Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, School of Architecture and
Planning
Master in City Planning (MCP), Urban Design
Certificate, Graduate Student Teaching
Certificate, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, School of Architecture and
Planning
Master of Architecture (M. ARCH), Tulane
University, School of Architecture
Registered Architect: California
Certified, National Council of Architecture
Registration Boards (NCARB)
Certified Planner, American Institute of Certified
Planners (AICP)
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Accreditied Professional, Building Design and
Construction specialty (LEED AP BD+C)
Alameda, California
Conceptual Design and Control
Guidelines for a 150-acre urban core
that leverages the unique character
and assets of the former Alameda
Naval Air Station, through incremental
intervention, to create a compact,
transit-oriented, waterfront experience.
To catalyze transformation of the wider
redevelopment area, the Town Center and
Waterfront Precise Plan provides formbased standards for the arrangement
of public and private streets, open
space, infrastructure, and associated
development that reinforce the City of
Alameda’s goals for a mixed-use, visitorserving, waterfront community.
San Diego C Street Corridor
San Diego, California
Conceptual vision and schematic
design for the physical and economic
revitalization of a critical 17-block
transit artery. The plan provides for
redevelopment of this mixed-use
corridor through streetscape and public
transit improvements combined with
a comprehensive land use and urban
design strategy to revitalize adjacent
ground floor activity.
UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Center
NASA Ames Research Park
Moffett Field, California
Master plan for a world-class, educational
and R&D campus dedicated to innovation,
entrepreneurship, and societal
transformation. The project focuses on
fostering collaboration among NASA,
the University of California and a diverse
partnership of academic and civic
institutions, and developers specializing
in high-tech. The project consolidates
two million sf of program on a 40acre university site, including research
laboratories, classrooms, neighborhood
retail, administration and conference
facilities, and campus housing all organized
through a network of primary streets and
convergence spaces.
80 Acre Mixed Use Technology
Campus, Confidential
San Francisco Bay Area
Mixed use technology campus including
housing, workspace, retail and cultural
uses. Client, location, cost and other details
withheld at owners request.
Portland Broadway Corridor
Portland, Oregon
The Broadway Corridor plan is an
approximately 24 acre redevelopment of
one of the last super blocks in Downtown
Portland, Oregon. As the existing site of
the US Postal Service distribution center,
the underutilized parcel sits between two
thriving Downtown Portland neighborhoods,
and across the street from Union Station.
Through an extensive public engagement
process, the project seeks to create a
framework for future development that
makes a positive and lasting contribution to
the health, vibrancy, and equity of the City.
Focused on placemaking, connectivity, and
urban form, the plan will lay the groundwork
for a master plan and future development of
the site, as well as the reintroduction of the
street grid and expansion of open spaces.
California College of the Arts
Consolidated Campus Feasibility Study
San Francisco, CA
Space utilization, needs assessment, and
comparative site capacity analysis to
guide long range campus expansion plan.
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1. CONSULTA N T R ESU M ES - N ELSO N \ N YGAARD
JEFF TUMLIN
Principal
Jeffrey Tumlin has developed downtown,
station area, citywide and master plans
for cities such as San Francisco, Seattle,
Portland OR, Vancouver BC, Santa Monica,
Denver, Washington DC, Trenton NJ, and Abu
Dhabi. He has also led the transportation
component of transit-oriented development
plans for over 60 station areas and
new towns across North America. He
is the author of the book, Sustainable
Transportation Planning, published by
Wiley in 2012. He was also the lead author
of many other publications, including the
Abu Dhabi Urban Street Design Manual,
BART’s Transit Oriented Development
Guidelines, Vancouver TransLink’s Transit
Oriented Communities Design Guidelines.
His projects have won awards from the
Congress for the New Urbanism, the
American Institute of Architects, the
American Planning Association and the
American Society of Landscape Architects.
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Education
Bachelor of Arts (with distinction), Urban Studies, Stanford University
Transportation Master Plans
Downtowns and cities, including Seattle,
WA, Trenton, NJ and Palo Alto, CA. In
Seattle, Tumlin restructured all the city’s
transportation performance measures
to include Quality of Service indicators
for all modes and focus on the movement
of people and goods rather than the
movement of vehicles. Tumlin also created
a quantifiable tool for balancing the
needs of all modes against one another
in a constrained operating environment,
detailing, for example, the circumstances
under which it is appropriate to convert a
mixed flow lane into a transit-only lane. Palo
Alto’s new performance indicators focus
on quality of life, specifically measures
to reduce overall vehicle miles traveled.
Trenton’s new performance measures and
project evaluation criteria focus primarily
upon economic development.
Transportation Master Plans
Universities and college towns, including
UC Berkeley and the City of Berkeley;
Washington State University and the City of
Pullman; Colorado State University and the
City of Fort Collins; UC San Diego; and the
City of Boulder and University of Colorado.
Each of these projects examined how the
college and city could work together to
accommodate significant growth while
improving community livability. They also
recommended the most relative investment
in new parking versus new TDM programs to
meet a range of goals.
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Bus Rapid Transit and
Rail Corridor Studies
For BART, Tumlin led the evaluation of four
rapid transit technologies and over a dozen
alignments extending from the existing
Dublin/Pleasanton station to Walnut
Creek, Livermore and Tracy. The total
proposed extension is 56 miles. Working
through an intensive public process, the
project Advisory Committee decided a
combination of Bus Rapid Transit and rapid
bus extensions were most productive given
financial resources.
Transit-Oriented Development Plans
Major urban infill projects including San
Francisco, Isla Vista, three Metro stations in
Washington, DC, region, three existing BART
station areas and 10 proposed BART station
areas in the San Francisco Bay Area. In
San Francisco, the city is replacing parking
minimums with maximums, following
Tumlin’s innovative analysis correlating
parking with affordable housing production,
gentrification and traffic generation. In Isla
Vista, the county is establishing a Parking
and Transportation Authority to manage
on-street parking. Tumlin is also managing
a $5 million as-needed planning contract
for BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit District)
that covers everything from station area
planning to comprehensive station access,
TOD and engineering standards.
Transportation Management Plans
Major Development Projects
Tumlin developed strategies to
accommodate five million sf of growth at
Moffett Field and two million sf of growth at
San Francisco Executive Park with minimal
increase in traffic. Innovative program
elements included parking cash-out, child
care, on-site housing, subscription bus and
bicycle fleet programs.
Traffic Calming
Projects for San Francisco’s Bernal Heights
Neighborhood and two arterial corridors
in the San Francisco Bay Area. All three
projects involved extensive consensus
planning and facilitation among antagonistic
stakeholders. The San Mateo and San
Francisco projects have been successfully
implemented.
Parking Management Strategies
In San Francisco, Seattle, Arlington VA,
Isla Vista and a variety of major employers
and commercial districts, Tumlin helped
to identify the most cost effective mix of
investments in new parking, improved
parking management and transportation
alternatives.
BRIAN CANEPA
Principal
Brian Canepa has more than nine years
of transportation planning experience. He
specializes in developing innovative parking
and transportation measures, transitoriented development (TOD) policies, and
Transportation Demand Management (TDM)
programs designed to promote prudent
sustainability through reduced reliance
on automobiles. Brian has crafted parking
plans for several cities to maximize parking
and transportation resources through
mechanisms such as parking occupancy
targets, shared parking provisions, and
blended parking requirements.
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TOD Overlay Zone
Lancaster, California
As Project Manager, Brian led the creation
of parking and street standards for the
transit area. The plan included multimodal
analysis and recommendations ranging from
streetscape standards based on current
and future traffic volumes to significantly
enhanced pedestrian and bicycle facilities to
improve linkages from the community to the
heart of the station area.
Education
Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning, Virginia Tech University
Master of Arts in Political Management,
The George Washington University
Bachelor of Arts in History, Bates College
Southeast Transit Village Plan
Lancaster, California
As Project Manager, Brian headed the
development of recommendations including
various road diets and the lowering of
speed limits at various study area streets
to improve the bicycle and pedestrian
experience. Nelson\Nygaard, as part of
a team lead by Sargent Town Planning,
chronicled existing issues and opportunities
related to transportation conditions in the
study area, including traffic and circulation,
transit service (rail and bus), parking,
and non-motorized facilities (pedestrian
and bicycle). A new bus transfer center
immediately adjacent to the rail station, as
well as bicycle and pedestrian connections
over or under the tracks, formed the core of
the transportation recommendations.
Station Area Plan
Cloverdale, California
As Project Manager, Brian led the
development of the station area plan’s
multimodal network, and parking and
streetscape standards. Nelson\Nygaard
created an effective management plan for
public and private parking resources around
the new City of Cloverdale SMART rail
station and downtown area. The plan crafted
new demand management techniques and
Code revisions to promote a vibrant and
walkable mixed-use district while ensuring
efficient vehicular flow along the city’s
arterial streets.
Transit Village Transportation
Demand Management Plan
San Carlos, California
As Project Manager, Brian led the
development of the site’s TDM plan. Nelson\
Nygaard produced both a transportation
demand management plan to manage
residential and commercial parking and
traffic congestion as well as an analysis of
transit ridership impacts on new residential,
commercial, and retail space development in
the San Carlos Caltrain station area. Nelson\
Nygaard showed that through a number of
TDM measures, such as subsidized transit
passes, parking pricing, and parking cashout, the new development could reduce
its peak vehicle trips to below the City\
County Association of Governments of San
Mateo County’s designated Congestion
Management Program threshold.
Circulation and Parking Plan
Tiburon, California
Nelson\Nygaard created a robust set of
circulation and parking improvements to
better manage the parking supply, improve
multimodal access, and implement various
complete street policies and strategies
within and around Downtown Tiburon.
Recommendations included a new parking
pricing system paired with a residential
permit program to facilitate easy local
access to downtown.
Citywide Transportation and
Parking Study
Monterey, California
Nelson\Nygaard was hired by the City of
Monterey as part of a consultant team to
conduct a comprehensive analysis of the
city’s on- and off-street parking supply
and to examine the circulation patterns
of cars, bicycles, pedestrians, and public
transportation in three focus areas within
the city. Nelson\Nygaard recommended
several new revisions, including changes to
the City’s parking standards in the Municipal
Code to facilitate infill development, a
system of demand-based parking pricing,
and a relocated and redesigned transit
center.
Traffic Reduction Strategies
Pasadena, CA
Nelson\Nygaard prepared a comprehensive
analysis of international best practices in
traffic reduction, ranging from congestion
pricing to parking policy reform.
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PAUL MOORE
Principal
Paul Moore is involved in the oversight
and management of major urban design,
land use and transportation planning
and engineering projects. He has nearly
25 years of experience in developing
major transportation and transit planning
projects, small area planning and
redevelopment studies, traffic engineering
and design manuals and studies, and livable
transportation solutions.
Atlanta Beltline
Atlanta, Georgia
Transportation lead for planning,
development, and permitting of sections
of this 22 mile tract of former freight rail
lines that is to be converted to transit,
trails and development. This project is
eventually envisioned to connect over 40 rail
stations to a multi-use trail and surrounding
neighborhoods forming a ring around the
city.
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Transportation Master Plan
Omaha, Nebraska
Project Manager for the City’s
comprehensive vision and transportation
plan. Led a team charged with
understanding the City’s current
transportation conditions and assessing its
needs, developing recommendations for
new transportation investment, and analysis
and prioritization of recommended projects
for future implementation. Among the
recommendations were changes to growth
policy, new premium transit service and
targeted redevelopment.
Wyandanch Station Redevelopment
Babylon, New York
Lead Transportation Planner for the
development of a walkable, mixed-use
district around this Long Island Railroad
station. A key element of this work was the
conversion of a main street from 4 to 3 lanes
and provision of crosswalks for smaller,
walkable blocks.
State Center Redevelopment
Baltimore, Maryland
Transportation planner for a major urban
redesign and transit oriented development.
This public/private partnership consists of
over 4 million sf of redevelopment located
between two rail transit lines.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta Multi-Modal Passenger Terminal
Atlanta, Georgia
Transportation planner for the traffic
circulation and parking access for the new
downtown terminal for intercity rail, local
transit, and other surface transport. This
site also included the potential for significant
area development and overbuild.
TTA Regional Rail Station Design
Raleigh, North Carolina
Project manager with responsibility for
directing public outreach and arts-in-transit
components of the station design effort.
The planned system spanned 35 miles with
16 stations.
Transportation/Land Use Integration
Study Boise, Idaho
Lead Transportation Planner for
development of a process to integrate
land use and transportation planning
in Ada County, ID. In addition to advice
on development of corridor study
methodologies, development of connectivity
and access management, the project
included development of a design manual
which the County can use to program
transportation project consistent with
associated land use.
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Downtown Parking and Transit Study
Erie, Pennsylvania
Led a study to identify the supply,
management and pricing of parking and its
relationship to current and potential transit
service in the downtown area.
MARTA Avondale Transit Station Area
Plan Atlanta, Georgia
Assisted with public workshops and the
integrated transportation and land use
development of this plan intended to foster
transit-oriented development around an
existing MARTA station.
Connect Atlanta Plan
Atlanta, Georgia
Project Manager for Atlanta’s first-ever
comprehensive transportation plan. Project
included current transportation conditions
and assessing needs, and developed
recommendations for transportation
investment, and prioritization.
MOVEPGH Transportation Plan
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The effort has led to transportation project
and policy recommendations along
with prioritization and funding plans for
recommended projects. The study included
recommendations for future growth and all
modes of transportation, including specific
recommendations for new premium transit
service and redevelopment.
KEVIN M. SHIVELY
Associate
Kevin specializes in multimodal access to
transit and management of parking and
travel demand. With more than 11 years of
planning experience in the public, private
and non-profit sectors, he is recognized for
his collaborative approach, comprehensive
policy analysis, clear communication, and
effective project management. Kevin’s work
includes bicycle and pedestrian network
and policy planning, regional transportation
and land use coordination, and planning for
local parking and transportation demand
management. He is currently leading
access planning for the South Richmond
Transportation Connectivity Plan in
Richmond, California.
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Education
Master of City Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts, Majors: Geography, Urban Studies (Core: Economics), Macalester College
Certificate (TE-19), Design, Implementation and Operation of Bicycle Facilities, ITS,
University of California, Berkeley
Parking and Transportation
Demand Management (TDM)
Planning for Cities and Station Areas
• Currently leading development of access,
connectivity and parking management
plans for two new rail stations in
Petaluma, CA.
• Managed citywide parking data collection
for SFpark, an innovative pilot test of
variable on-street and off-street parking
pricing in San Francisco. Surveyed
parking search time, double parking and
disabled placard utilization, and parking
occupancy and turnover in business
districts and surrounding residential
areas.
• Developed zoning code amendments for
the City of Billings, Montana, to facilitate
smart parking management and support
desired mixed-use development.
• Conducted parking data collection
and analysis and developed draft
Parking Element of the Madera Avenue
Streetscape Plan for the City of Kerman,
CA.
• Evaluated the cost per new rider of
alternative locations and station area
plans for a planned eBART Station in
Antioch, CA.
• Modeled the transit ridership impacts of
mixed-use, transit oriented development
on commuter parking lots in San Mateo,
CA.
• Developed recommendations for
replacing auto-focused Level-of-Service
(LOS) analysis with a new methodology
for assessment and mitigation of
development impacts based on projected
vehicle trip generation (VTG) for the City
of Emeryville, CA.
Parking and TDM Planning for
Developers and Employers
• Managed outreach and marketing for a
pilot test of Avego’s real-time ridesharing
service in the SR-520 Corridor between
Seattle and Redmond, WA.
• Led TDM program implementation for a
major non-profit sector employer in Los
Altos, CA.
• Conducted research on the finance,
control, ownership, and pricing of
parking in mixed-use developments for a
developer in Austin, TX.
Planning for Greenhouse Gas (GHG)
Emission Reduction and Climate
Protection
• Currently assisting the City of Seattle with
evaluation of strategies for GHG emission
reduction in the transportation and land
use sectors.
• Developed strategies for reforming local
and regional parking policies to achieve
regional climate protection goals for the
San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan
Transportation Commission (MTC).
• Conducted a Trip Reduction Impact
Analysis (TRIA), including GHG emissions
reduction analysis of parking policy
alternatives for the Tahoe Regional
Planning Agency (TRPA), per CA SB 375,
the Sustainable Communities and Climate
Protection Act of 2008.
Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning
• Developed short-term and long-term
bicycle parking requirements that vary by
land use and location for the City of Santa
Monica, CA.
• Recommended physical and operational
improvements to balance priority for
bicyclists and transit riders in the HortonOverland corridor in Emeryville, CA.
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1. CONSULTA N T R ESU M ES - H R&A ADVISO RS IN C
AMITABH BARTHAKUR, AICP
Partner-in-Charge
Amitabh joined HR&A in 2013 as a Partner
in the Los Angeles office and brings over
two decades of international experience
in real estate and economic development.
Previously, as a Vice President and Regional
Director for the Planning, Design, and
Development business line for AECOM
in India, he led a multidisciplinary
team of economists, planners and
designers to deliver a range of complex
urban development, infrastructure and
transportation related projects.
Prior to this, Amitabh led AECOM’s
economics practice in the US-West region,
based in Los Angeles, and served as
the global practice leader for the firm’s
economic planning and real estate market
sector. Amitabh was a Principal with Los
Angeles based Economics Research
Associates (ERA) until the firm’s 2007
merger with AECOM.
Education
Master of Urban Planning, University of Southern California, School of Policy, Planning and Development
Master of Building Science, University of Southern California, School of Architecture
Bachelor of Architecture, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India
Council of Architecture (India)
He has extensive experience working
with transit and transportation related
projects in Southern California and the
Southwest, especially focused on transit
facility reuse, TODs, and station area master
plans. Amitabh has worked on a number
of projects focused on the land use –
transportation nexus in Southern California
and is intimately familiar with unique market
and economic issues faced by Southern
California communities. Some of his works,
completed while with ERA and AECOM, in
these specialty areas include the following.
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ARRIVE Corridor Market and
Implementation Strategy
San Bernardino, California
As part of a multi-disciplinary team, led the
formulation of land use and implementation
strategies for TOD along San Bernardino
Metrolink line, encompassing six
municipalities in San Bernardino County.
The project will serve as a transferrable
strategy transitioning a traditional
commuter rail corridor to a more integrated
TOD/regional rail corridor.
Crenshaw Corridor Economic Analysis
Carried out economic analysis to support
the vision for the Crenshaw Corridor
anchored by the Crenshaw-Exposition
Transit Oriented Development (TOD)
along the proposed Expo-Line light rail
in Los Angeles. Advised the Community
Redevelopment Agency (CRA) of the City of
Los Angeles on a land use strategy to attract
private investment.
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Master Plan for the Downtown Tucson
Intermodal Center
Tucson, Arizona
Conducted a market and financial analysis
for the Downtown Tucson Intermodal
Center Master Plan anchored by the Union
Pacific (UPRR) station. The $20 million
intermodal center project was subsequently
implemented by the City of Tucson.
Santa Fe Station Market Analysis for the
City of San Bernardino
Conducted a market analysis adaptive reuse
strategy for the historic Santa Fe station.
The station now serves as the headquarters
for the San Bernardino Association of
Governments (SANBAG) and a major stop
for Amtrak and Metrolink.
Westgate Specific Plan
Transit Oriented Development
Placentia, California
Conducted a market analysis and developed
an implementation strategy for the Transit
Oriented Development around a planned
Metrolink Station in Placentia, California.
SANBAG Transportation and
Land Use Integration
San Bernardino Valley, California
Provided economic analysis support to
a multidisciplinary planning team and
evaluated development opportunities
near proposed transit station location in
six cities throughout the San Bernardino
Valley—Colton, Fontana, Highland, Ontario,
Rancho Cucamonga and Rialto. The work
included market analysis of retail, office and
residential uses on the site, the potential
for mixed use, and an overall development
strategy. This project was the winner of the
SANBAG 2009 Mobility Award.
E Street Corridor Economic
Opportunities Analysis
Led the economic opportunities analysis
for the E Street Corridor in San Bernardino,
California. The study included a market
and financial analysis to inform an
acquisition strategy capitalizing on future
transportation infrastructure.
Station Neighborhood Area Plans (SNAP)
Economic analysis plan for the Vermont/
Western/ Hollywood METRO Redline
stations. As a result of the plan, the City of
Los Angeles adopted the SNAP program and
the City Council as a Specific Plan Ordinance
in 2000. The project was awarded an
American Planning Association (APA) award.
JUDITH TAYLOR
Project Manager
Judith joined HR&A in 2013 as a Principal for
the Los Angeles office. Judith brings over 10
years of experience in the fields of land use
consulting, redevelopment, and community
development. She has broad experience
providing land use economic analyses to
inform community plans, specific plans,
revitalization and land use strategies, and
the entitlement process. Judith also has
extensive experience guiding cities to
overcome the unique challenges of TOD.
Previously Judith worked with the
Economics Research Associates (ERA) and
the Economics practice at AECOM. Judith’s
specialties include fiscal impact analysis,
economic impact analysis, real estate
market analysis, and economic strategy and
funding strategy development. She has a
breadth of experience providing customized
analysis for her clients and has worked with
public agencies such as the City of San
Diego, the City of Los Angeles, and the City
of Calimesa, and private developers, such
as Sudberry Properties, Pardee Homes and
Hines.
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Education
Master in Public Policy and Urban Planning Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Bachelor of Arts Economics, Stanford University
TOD Property Highest and Best Use in
South Los Angeles
Conducted market analysis for retail,
residential, and office uses and prepared
demand analysis to understand the best use
of the site. The analysis not only included
historical performance but also considered
and quantified the transformative change of
the Expo Phase II extension and the impacts
of the new LAX/Crenshaw LRT on demand.
ARRIVE Corridor Market and
Implementation Strategy
As part of a multi-disciplinary team,
conducted the formulation of land use
and implementation strategies for TOD
along San Bernardino Metrolink line,
encompassing six municipalities in San
Bernardino County. The project will serve
as a transferrable strategy transitioning a
traditional commuter rail corridor to a more
integrated TOD/regional rail corridor.
Market Feasibility Analysis of the Expo
Phase II and LAX/ Crenshaw Light Rail
Transit Station Areas
Executed an in-depth market study of
five station areas on the new Expo and
Crenshaw/LAX light rail transit lines for
the City of Los Angeles. Working in concert
with the planning team, Ms. Taylor provided
guidance on vital questions regarding the
overall scale and feasibility of supportable
station area development and the
appropriate level of community benefits that
may be supported from future development.
Preliminary Crenshaw/LAX TOD
Evaluated potential for development in a
preliminary analysis of proposed Crenshaw/
LAX light rail station areas for Metro.
Provided demographic and real estate
market analysis of the areas surrounding
each of the proposed stations and helped to
evaluate the development potential of the
station areas.
SANBAG Inland Empire TOD Study
San Bernardino County, California
Provided economic analysis support in the
evaluation of development opportunities
near proposed transit station locations in six
cities throughout the San Bernardino Valley.
Evaluated the potential for office, retail,
residential, and mixed use in each station
area.
Corridor Feasibility Strategy
Calimesa, California
While with ERA, developed a strategy
for the City of Calimesa to transform the
piece meal developments along their main
corridor into a true functioning downtown.
Completed a retail and office market
analysis for the corridor and provided a
set of strategies to focus and encourage
development along the main corridor.
Inland Empire Market Analysis
Prepared a bevy of market analysis and
economic strategy recommendations for
several cities in the Inland Empire as part
of the SCAG Compass Blueprint program.
Projects included downtowns and corridors
in Cathedral City, Grand Terrace, Corona,
and Coachella.
City of Cerritos TOD
Demonstration Program
Cerritos, California
Prepared a funding and financing strategy
for a proposed future retail, office, and
residential transit-oriented development in
the City of Cerritos.
Feasibility Analysis of the Vision for a
Sustainable South Bay Strategy
Los Angeles County, California
Analyzed the feasibility of a “neighborhoodoriented development” strategy that looks
to concentrate commercial uses in suburban
areas for the South Bay Cities COG.
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1. CONSULTA N T R ESU M ES - RIN CO N CO N SU LTAN TS, IN C.
JENNIFER HADDOW, PHD
Principal
Dr. Haddow serves as a Principal
Environmental Scientist in Rincon’s
Environmental and Sciences and Planning
group. In this role, she manages the
day-to-day work program of planning and
environmental documents and specialized
technical studies, including California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
compliance documentation, environmental
assessments and sustainability analysis.
Dr. Haddow has over 12 years professional
experience in the field of environmental
science and assessment and has managed
a variety of successful projects, including for
land use, water and energy planning as well
as for residential, commercial, industrial and
infrastructure development.
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Education
Ph.D., Biogeochemistry,
University of Aberdeen, UK
Master of Science, Environmental Science,
University of Aberdeen, UK
Bachelor of Science, Environmental
Policy Analysis and Planning,
University of California, Davis
Associate Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (AIEMA)
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Aesthetics & Visual Quality
Bakersfield to Palmdale EIR/EIS
Kern and Los Angeles Counties,
California
Dr. Haddow is acting as a Lead Analyst as
part of the preparation of the EIR/EIS for
the California High Speed Rail, Bakersfield
to Palmdale Segment. The project involves
analyzing the aesthetic and visual impacts
of a number of alignment alternatives,
including both the rail line itself and
supporting infrastructure requirements. Dr.
Haddow is managing the technical analysis
related to the Aesthetics & Visual Quality
section of the EIR/EIS and its associated
Technical Report.
Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California, Environmental Services
On-Call
Dr. Haddow currently manages Rincon
Consultant’s on-call contract to provide
consultancy support to Metropolitan’s
Environmental Planning Team. Example
projects Dr. Haddow has managed under
this contract include the Lakeview Pipeline
Relining Project. and Santa Ana River Bridge
Seismic Retrofit and Routine Maintenance
Project.
Southern California Edison,
Environmental Services Program
Dr. Haddow helped developed the SCE Client
Manual in support of Rincon Consultants’
SCE Environmental Services Program. The
purpose of the Client Manual is to streamline
Rincon’s activities under this large-scale
program to provide cost efficiencies to the
client, while ensuring all products are of the
highest quality providing consistency and
accuracy in the type and form of information
provided to SCE. The Client Manual
provides extensive guidance and procedures
for management of Rincon’s SCE projects,
including formal processes for budget
tracking, billing, staff resource management
and preparation of deliverables in the clientpreferred format. Detailed information on
communication protocols to be used within
the Environmental Services Program team
as well as protocols for communication with
SCE are also included to aid in maintaining
detailed communication records. A stringent
data and document management system
was also put in place to implement QA/QC of
the highest calibre given the intense public
scrutiny SCE projects encounter.
Bakersfield F Street Station Alignment
Supplemental EIR/EIS
Kern County, California
Dr. Haddow is managing the preparation of a
number of technical analyses for inclusion in
the Supplemental EIR/EIS for the California
High Speed Rail, Bakersfield F Street Station
Alignment. The project involves analyzing
the environmental impacts of the alignment
of the rail, supporting infrastructure
requirements, and the proposed station
location on F Street in Bakersfield. Technical
analyses being prepared by Rincon for this
document include: Aesthetics; Greenhouse
Gases; Public Utilities & Energy; Geology,
Soils, Seismicity & Paleontology; Hazardous
Materials & Waste; Community Impact
Assessment; Station Planning & Land Use;
and Parks, Recreation & Open Space.
CARIE WINGERT, MS
Senior Biologist
Education
Master of Science, Biological Sciences,
California Polytechnic State University
Bachelor of Science, Zoology,
Southern Illinois University
10(a)(1)(A) Federal Recover Permit – giant kangaroo rat, Tipton kangaroo rat, western snowy plover, California least tern
CDFG Scientific Collecting Permit MOU – Mohave ground squirrel (pending), giant kangaroo rat, Tipton kangaroo rat, western snowy
plover, California least tern
CDFG Rare Plant Voucher Collecting Permit
Qualified Level II Blunt-nosed Leopard Lizard Surveyor
Qualified Senior Biologist for San Joaquin Kit Fox Protocol Surveys
Carie Wingert, MS has more than ten years
of experience in wildlife research and
management and has extensive knowledge
of the flora and fauna of the Central Valley,
Mojave Desert and Central Coast regions
of California. Ms. Wingert has specific
expertise with a variety of special status
species including desert tortoise, San
Joaquin kit fox, giant kangaroo rat, bluntnosed leopard lizard, western snowy plover,
California least tern, and burrowing owl. Ms.
Wingert has also received specific training
on surveying and handling desert tortoise,
conducting jurisdictional delineations, is
a qualified Level II blunt-nosed leopard
lizard lead surveyor, is qualified as a Senior
Biologist for San Joaquin kit fox protocol
surveys, and currently holds a federal
10(a)(1)(A) recovery permit (TE2171190) and state Scientific Collecting Permit
(SC-005898) with a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) to conduct trapping
for the giant kangaroo rat and Tipton
kangaroo rat and to conduct surveys and
monitoring for the western snowy plover
and California least tern, and she anticipates
receiving an MOU to trap and handle Mohave
ground squirrels. Her responsibilities at
Rincon include general biological surveys,
habitat mapping, jurisdictional delineations,
pre-construction special status species
surveys, construction monitoring, and
preparing CEQA and NEPA documents.
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California High Speed Rail Authority
(CHSRA) Project Construction Package 1
Ms. Wingert is working as Rincon’s
Environmental Compliance Manager for the
first construction package of the California
High Speed Rail Project. Rincon is providing
environmental compliance services to the
Design-Build JV team including ensuring
compliance with mitigation measures,
providing on-site monitoring, and
stormwater services.
Plains All American Pipeline Anomaly
Repair Projects
Angeles National Forest, California
In 2013 as the Assistant Project Manager,
Ms. Wingert provided project management
and environmental compliance oversight
for several repair locations in the Angeles
National Forest for Line 2000, an oil pipeline
that carries crude oil from the Central
Valley to Los Angeles. Her duties included
coordination with the US Forest Service and
the Plains All American Pipeline (PAALP),
overseeing and scheduling staffing, and
ensuring that environmental compliance for
both biological and cultural resources was
documented. Following up on this effort, Ms.
Wingert provided on-the-ground assistance
to PAALP for a new set of anomaly repair
sites along Line 63 and Line 2000 occurring
on federal, state, and private lands. Ms.
Wingert worked with PAALP evaluate over
50 anomaly sites from Fort Tejon to Santa
Clarita and to identify access routes and
disturbance areas that cause the smallest
impact to sensitive habitats. She assisted in
preparation of the project description and a
Biological Assessment/Biological Evaluation
as required by the Angeles National Forest,
worked with the California Department
of Parks and Recreation to determine the
appropriate course of action for anomaly
sites location on Hungry Valley State
Vehicular Recreation Area, and assisted with
identifying land ownership and access to a
number of anomaly repair sites on private
lands. Ms. Wingert continues to provide
assistance to PAALP for these projects as
well as on-call support services for future
projects.
Caltrans (subcontract through Papich
Construction), Highway 46 Improvement
Project, Whitley Phase I
San Luis Obispo, California
Starting in 2010 as the Project Manager,
Ms. Wingert provided project management
and environmental compliance services
on this major highway improvement
project. The project included Ms. Wingert
being authorized as: Lead Biologist under
federal Biological Opinion 1-8-03-F-59 for
federally Endangered San Joaquin kit fox,
federally Threatened California red-legged
frog, and federally Threatened California
tiger salamander; and Designated Biologist
under state Incidental Take Permit No.
2081-2007-020-04 for state Threatened San
Joaquin kit fox. Ms. Wingert also oversaw
compliance with the CDFG Streambed
Alteration Agreement, RWQCB Water Quality
Certification and USACE 404 Permit, and
implementing avoidance and minimization
measures pursuant to the project’s CEQA/
NEPA documents. Through Ms. Wingert’s
environmental compliance experience
focused on biological resources on this
project and others, she has demonstrated
a thorough understanding of regulatory
requirements for such resources and
acute awareness of the benefits of regular
and proactive communication with the
construction team to keep environmental
compliance on track and maintain
construction schedules are maintained.
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MATT MADDOX, MESM, AICP
Senior Program Manager
Matt Maddox serves as a Senior Program
Manager within Rincon’s Environmental
Science and Planning group and the
Sustainable Consulting Group. In this
capacity, he is involved in a wide range
of urban planning and land use studies,
sustainable design review, air quality and
greenhouse gas analysis, CEQA/NEPA
environmental documentation, as well as
community involvement and permitting
activities. Mr. Maddox has a strong
background in environmental management,
policy, and environmental planning. He has
contributed to successful environmental
and planning projects ranging from general
plans to focused inner city redevelopment
studies, to sustainable design review
and documentation for compliance with
environmental regulations, to greenhouse
gas emissions analysis for industrial
facilities. Mr. Maddox has developed a focus
in the area of urban planning, sustainable
design, and greenhouse gas analysis.
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Education
Master of Environmental Science & Management (MESM), Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science,
Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo
Accredited Greenhouse Gas Emissions Lead
Verifier – California Air Resources Board
Merced High Speed Rail Station Area
Plan CEQA Documentation
Opticos Design
City of Merced, California
Mr. Maddox is acting as Project Manager as
part of the Opticos Design team that was
selected to provide consulting services for
the City of Merced High Speed Rail Station
Area Plan. The proposed HSR Station
will represent the point of arrival for rail
passengers coming or leaving the City of
Merced. It is proposed to be located at the
eastern end of Merced’s older Downtown
area. Taking advantage of the tiering
provisions of CEQA, the Area Plan will be
analyzed with a Supplemental Initial StudyMitigated Negative Declaration.
2014 Kings County Regional
Transportation Plan and Sustainable
Communities Strategy (RTP/SCS) EIR
Kings County Association of
Governments
Mr. Maddox acted as Project Manager
and lead analysis for the environmental
documentation for the 2014 Kings County
RTP/SCS. The RTP is an action-oriented
document used to achieve a coordinated
and balanced regional transportation
system. The SCS is intended to reduce
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from
passenger vehicles and light trucks to
achieve the regional GHG reduction.
The study area included all of Kings
County’s 1,391 square miles including four
incorporated cities: Avenal, Corcoran,
Hanford, and Lemoore. Issues analyzed in
the EIR included aesthetics, agricultural
resources, air quality, biological resources,
cultural resources, geology/soils,
greenhouse gases, hydrology/water quality,
hazards/hazardous materials, land use,
noise, and transportation (including rail
impacts). The EIR was completed on time
and within budget. The RTP/SCS was
adopted in July 2014.
Greenhouse Gases and Aesthetics
EIR/EIS
Mr. Maddox is acting as a Lead Analyst as
part of the preparation of the EIR/EIS for
the California High Speed Rail, Bakersfield
F Street Station Alignment. The project
involves analyzing the environmental
impacts of the alignment of the rail,
maintenance facilities, and the proposed
station location on F Street in Bakersfield.
Mr. Maddox is managing the technical
analysis related to the Aesthetics and
Greenhouse Gas sections for the EIR/EIS.
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SARA KOPP TISTAERT, AICP
Environmental Planner
Education
Bachelor of Arts, California State University, Bakersfield
Sara Kopp Tistaert serves as an Associate
Environmental Planner with eight years of
professional experience in both jurisdictional
planning and environmental planning. As
an associate environmental planner within
the Environmental Sciences and Planning
Group Ms. Tistaert prepared environmental
analysis for California Environmental Quality
Act (CEQA) and National Environmental
Protection Act (NEPA) compliance, among
other responsibilities. Her professional
experience includes working for local
governments and processing a variety
of reports and permits. Ms. Tistaert has
experience with residential developments
in both rural and densely populated areas,
solar projects, and other utilities and
infrastructure improvements.
single-family lots, and two lots for
permanent preservation of open space. The
project also includes the partial relocation
and improvement of an existing informal
multi-use trail and development of an
equestrian trail.
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Talaria - 3401 Olive Street
Mixed-Use Development EIR
Burbank, California
Rincon completed an EIR for the Talaria
Mixed-Use Project in Burbank, California.
Initially, Rincon completed technical studies
that analyzed air quality, greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions, hazards and hazardous
materials, noise, and transportation/traffic
in support of an IS that the City of Burbank
prepared for the project. The findings of the
analyses were incorporated into the EIR in
accordance with CEQA requirements. Ms.
Tistaert managed the preparation of the EIR
and wrote the technical sections of the EIR.
EIR/EIS
Ms. Tistaert is assisting in managing the
preparation of a number of technical
analyses for inclusion in the Supplemental
EIR/EIS for the California High Speed Rail,
Bakersfield F Street Station Alignment. The
project involves analyzing the environmental
impacts of the alignment of the rail,
maintenance facilities, and the proposed
station location on F Street in Bakersfield.
Ms. Tistaert is also acting as the Lead
Analyst related to the Parks, Recreation &
Open Space section of the EIR/EIS.
CSU Bakersfield Hotel and
Convention Center EIR
Bakersfield, California
Rincon prepared an EIR examining a new
hotel on the CSUB campus. The CEQA
document provided site-specific analysis
that augmented the programmatic analysis
contained in the campus Master Plan EIR,
identifying site-specific issue and mitigation
measures as appropriate. Ms. Tistaert
prepared the IS-MND including technical
sections of the analysis such as noise, air
quality, and greenhouse gas emissions.
Agoura Equestrian Estates, EIR
Agoura Hills, California
Ms. Tistaert is overseeing preparation of
an EIR that evaluates the environmental
effects of the Agoura Equestrian Estates
Project. The project involves the annexation
of an approximately 71-acre site into the
City of Agoura Hills, subdivision of the
site into 17 lots, including 15 residential
Contract Planner
City of Lompoc, California
Ms. Tistaert worked as a contract planner
for the City of Lompoc Community
Development Department. Her duties
included completing the processing of a
number of public and private development
projects. Direct responsibilities included
determinations of application completeness,
environmental and ordinance/policy review,
and public hearings before the Planning
Commission and City Council.
2410 - 2420 Marine Avenue Hotel
IS-MND
Redondo Beach, California
Rincon is currently preparing CEQA
documentation for the City of Redondo
Beach examining construction and
operation of two hotels and surface level
boat and RV parking. The two hotels were
previously constructed and are operating
currently; and all parking is located
directly on the hotels’ property. The City is
examining an application for an amendment
to the Conditional Use Permit to eliminate
the previously approved surface level boat
and RV parking and allow, instead, for the
development of a third hotel and a private
recreation/open space area. Ms. Tistaert
prepared the IS-MND including taking
noise measurements at the project site
and integrating the measurements into the
analysis.
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1. CONSULTA N T R ESU M ES - ARELLAN O ASSO CIAT ES
CHESTER K. BRITT
Project Director
Chester Britt serves as the Project
Director for Arellano Associates where he
oversees all project contracting, strategic
development and implementation.
Mr. Britt has managed diverse
communications and planning programs
for numerous large scale and high
profile transportation and energy related
projects across all phases of project
development, including: long-range
planning, feasibility studies, alternatives
analysis, environmental studies, final
design and engineering and construction.
Mr. Britt’s experience covers Southern
California as well as statewide programs.
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Education
Bachelor of Arts, Sociology and Business Administration, University of California,
Los Angeles
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Metro Northwest 138 Corridor
Improvement Project
West Antelope Valley, California
Metro is considering improvements to the
SR-138 between I-5 and SR-14, a stretch
of 36-miles that serves as a by-pass road
for trucks and commuters when closures
occur on I-5 and SR-14. The study will
build upon the findings from the North
County Combined Highway Corridor
Study and is also part of the broader
High Desert Corridor area which extends
63-miles further east of SR-14 connecting
with I-15, SR-395 and SR-18 in Victor
Valley. Mr. Britt serves as the project
director for the comprehensive outreach
program that supports completion
of CEQA and NEPA environmental
documents. The outreach program
involves multiple rounds of community
meetings, agency coordination with
both Metro and Caltrans who is lead
environmental agency for the project.
Mr. Britt also will serve to implement the
GeoSocial Interactive Map developed by
Arellano Associates together with a full
spectrum social media campaign.
Metro High Desert Corridor
The High Desert Corridor is proposed to be a
new 63-mile, east-west freeway/expressway
linking SR-14 in north Los Angeles County
with SR-18 in San Bernardino County. Mr.
Britt is directing AA’s involvement with
outreach support on the public information
program for Metro’s Environmental Impact
Statement/Report in close coordination
with Caltrans District 7 and the Joint Powers
Authority partner agencies. Specifically,
Mr. Britt crafted the Public Participation
Plan that complies with NEPA/CEQA
process featuring elected briefings, public
meetings, and a social media program that
encompasses online meeting facilitation and
webinars. Mr. Britt directed Metro’s most
recent webinar, which drew over 166 live
views, with an additional 51 views since the
show’s posting on Ustream, a record number
in Metro webinar history. Mr. Britt has also
led the efforts in developing, implementing
and launching a new Google-based tool
that allows the user to view the project
area, views specific areas of interest, as
well as utilize a comments feature that can
be shared through Facebook, Twitter and
Flickr. Mr. Britt is responsible for oversight
and management of the map, which includes
compiling GIS data files, creating content,
identifying map features and layers, and
implementing and monitoring protocols
for geo-coded comments. To date, the
interactive map has received over 1,100
unique visits.
ELISABETH ROSENSON
Senior Project Coordinator
Education
Masters in Strategic Public Relations,
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Ms. Rosenson serves as a Senior Project
Coordinator for Arellano Associates.
Ms. Rosenson is responsible for project
public information management and
project outreach coordination. She
has worked on small to large-scale
public programs and is an experienced
strategic communications professional
with expertise in a range of sectors,
including transportation, energy,
legal, food, environmental, aviation,
real estate, consumer products
and healthcare. She has particular
expertise in project coordination, client,
community and elected official relations.
She is accustomed to working with
senior staff, elected officials, business
leaders and the grassroots community.
Specialties include public relations, crisis
communications, government affairs,
issues management, public affairs, media
training, writing, stakeholder engagement
and outreach.
California High-Speed Train Project –
Palmdale to Los Angeles, California
While at Consensus Inc., Ms. Rosenson
served as director for the public outreach
program for the Palmdale to Los Angeles
section. Responsibilities included overall
project management for public outreach;
development of key messages and public
participation plan approach; stakeholder
briefings; coordination and oversight of
technical working groups; coordination of
media relations support; preparation of
status reports to project staff; and creation
of segment collateral materials. In this
role, Ms. Rosenson oversaw the creation of
the elected and legislative staff outreach
program, re-launch of the stakeholder
working groups, as well as the planning of
eight community meetings within a twoweek timeframe.
At Arellano Associates, Ms. Rosenson
now serves as lead for outreach to
elected officials, legislative staff and
cities along the Palmdale-Los Angeles
alignment. Responsibilities include
elected outreach strategy, relationshipbuilding with key offices and city staff,
and planning and execution of elected
official and legislative staff briefings. In
conjunction with the scoping meetings in
September/October 2014, Ms. Rosenson
conducted outreach to more than 45
elected officials at the federal, state and
local levels throughout the section. Since
then, she has overseen ongoing outreach
and relationship-building with elected
officials and city staff, including four
rounds of legislative briefings.
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Exposition Metro Line Construction
Authority (EXPO) –Expo Phase 2
Public Affairs Services
At Consensus Inc., Ms. Rosenson
managed the day-to-day communications
program to provide stakeholders with
information about construction of the
light rail line from Culver City to Santa
Monica, including media outreach, public
meetings and social media.
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1. CONSULTA N T R ESU M ES - ARELLAN O ASSO CIAT ES
EDGAR GUTIERREZ
Mr. Gutierrez has 9 years of community
relations and land use experience having
worked for various Southern California
public agencies. For Arellano Associates,
Mr. Gutierrez is a Senior Project
Coordinator responsible for community
outreach services which include
strategic communication and message
development, inter-agency relations,
marketing and event coordination and
project organization. His professional
services have been executed in the
areas of transportation, air quality, land
use, regional and national campaign
development, as well as other policy and
legislative projects. Mr. Gutierrez has
successfully performed coalition building
and stakeholder outreach services to
diverse communities, having worked with
multi-cultural audiences, faith-based
communities, local businesses and various
other stakeholder groups.
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Education
Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, University of California Santa, Barbara
Master of City and Regional Planning
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo
California High-Speed Rail
Bakersfield to Palmdale, California
Mr. Gutierrez serves as a task lead with
the public outreach team focusing on
Environmental Justice outreach and
stakeholder communication. In this
capacity, he assists with the Authority’s
commitment to responsibly engage
the communities the project will serve
and affect. Arellano Associates serves
as member of the outreach team and
is a sub-consultant to TY Lin Regional
Consultant Team.Mr. Britt also will serve
to implement the GeoSocial Interactive
Map developed by Arellano Associates
together with a full spectrum social media
campaign.
Metro Northwest 138 Corridor
Improvement Project
Antelope Valley, California
Situated in the Antelope Valley in the
northwest corner of Los Angeles County,
just south of the Kern County border, State
Route 138 (SR-138) extends 36 miles from
Interstate 5 (I-5) to State Route 14 (SR-14).
The highway is the main east-west route
west of SR-14 and connects this portion
of the County to Lancaster, Palmdale
and other High Desert communities. The
Northwest 138 Corridor project will expand
on the previous North County combined
Highway Corridor Study which was
completed in 2004 to develop a Multimodal
transportation plan for the northern portion
of Los Angeles County to address both
short and long-term needs for a variety of
trip purposes and goods movement. Mr.
Gutierrez serves as the task lead for the
development and implementation of an
outreach program that will include scoping
meetings, public hearings, stakeholder
interviews, and a range of other activities
that will garner participation from the vast
range of project stakeholders. He is also
responsible for developing and maintaining
the stakeholder database, issues
matrix, meeting logs, and other related
documentation.
California High-Speed Rail
Palmdale to Los Angeles, California
Mr. Gutierrez serves as a task lead for the
public outreach responsibilities for the
60-mile Palmdale to Los Angeles Project
Section of the California High-Speed Rail
project. In this capacity, Mr. Gutierrez
assists with the development and
implementation of stakeholder outreach
and project communication, as well as
provides assistance with the planning and
implementation of a full-service public
outreach program to facilitate CEQA/
NEPA compliance, which showcases the
Authority as a proactive agency through
its comprehensive stakeholder outreach
program.
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MELISSA C. HOLGUIN
Project Manager - Outreach
Manager - Digital and Social Media
Ms. Holguin serves as Outreach Project
Manager and Manager of Digital
Engagement and Social Media Strategies
for Arellano Associates (AA). In this
capacity, Ms. Holguin is responsible for
project public information management
and outreach coordination. Building from
instrumental traditional outreach tools,
Ms. Holguin has also played a key role in
developing and implementing innovative
digital engagement and technology
tools applied throughout the firm. She
currently manages the Social Media
Programs for AA as well as several major
projects, including development of an
innovative GeoSocial Interactive Project
Map; producing live broadcast of public
meetings and development of the project
social media and project websites. She
is accustomed to working with senior
staff, elected officials, business leaders
and the grassroots community. She has
an excellent command of Spanish and
knowledge of Latino communities in
Southern California.
ARTIC – Anaheim Regional
Transportation Intermodal Center,
Anaheim, California
Ms. Holguin served as Project Coordinator
and provided project support for the public
involvement plan for ARTIC, specifically
as it relates to management of the social
media strategies, including development
of an enhanced website and project video
simulation. Additional responsibilities
included coordination with other overlapping
area projects to develop power point
presentation templates and participate in
weekly outreach team meetings.
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Education
Bachelor of Arts in International Business, California State University, Fullerton
Metro Northwest Highway 138 Corridor
Improvement Project,
Antelope Valley, California
Situated in the Antelope Valley in the
northwest corner of Los Angeles County,
just south of the Kern County border,
State Route 138 extends 36 miles from
Interstate 5 to State Route 14. The highway
is the main east-west route west of SR-14
and connects this portion of the County to
Lancaster, Palmdale and other High Desert
communities. The Northwest 138 Corridor
project will expand on the previous North
County combined Highway Corridor Study
which was completed in 2004 to develop
a Multimodal transportation plan for the
northern portion of Los Angeles County
to address both short and long-term
needs for a variety of trip purposes and
goods movement. Ms. Holguin provides
project support in the development of the
GeoSocial Interactive map. This online
tool will provide the community with key
project information, including proposed
alternatives, existing land uses and
corridor city information.
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1. CONSULTA N T R ESU M ES - PLACE IT !
JAMES THOMAS ROJAS
Project Manager
James Rojas is an urban planner,
community activist, and artist. He is one
of the few nationally recognized urban
planners to examine U.S. Latino cultural
influences on urban design. He holds a
Master of City Planning and a Master of
Science of Architecture Studies from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His influential thesis on the Latino built
environment has been widely cited.
Mr. Rojas founded the Latino Urban
Forum (LUF), a volunteer advocacy group,
dedicated to understanding and improving
the built environment of Los Angeles’
Latino communities. LUF has recruited
urban planners, architects, artists,
and public administrators to lend their
knowledge and influence to innovate and
address the issues of the underserved, and
often underprivileged, Latino communities
of Los Angeles.
Education
Masters of City Planning (MCP) & Masters of Science in Architecture Studies (SMarchs), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science in Interior Design,
Woodbury University
Mr. Rojas a new method to engage
youth, immigrants, and women in the
urban planning process has been highly
successful and replicated. He has
facilitated over 400 interactive workshops
and created over 75 interactive urban
dioramas across the country. He has
collaborated with municipalities, nonprofits, educational institutions, museums
and galleries to educate the public on
urban planning. Topics include pedestrian
and bike planning.
Latino Outreach
Eugene, Oregon
A collaboration with the University of
Oregon Center for Latino/a and Latin
American Studies, City of Eugene’s
Office of Human Rights & Neighborhood
Involvement, in partnership with the with
Parks and Recreation Staff to develop and
implement specialized outreach with the
Latino community as part of the Parks &
Recreation System Plan. This plan will guide
the development and operation of Eugene’s
parks, trails, recreation facilities and sports
fields for the next 10 years. The goal of the
outreach efforts was to engage hard to reach
Latino immigrant constituents in making
sure they had input in the process and that
the city’s park and recreation system is
useable and welcoming to everyone in the
community.
Los Angeles Mobility Element
General Plan
The facilitation of a series of workshops for
the LA Mobility plan. The workshop allowed
participants to think about mobility as a
personal experience, rather than a problem.
This approach generated many creative
ideas for the city of LA.
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Eastside High School Students
Re-design Gold Line Stations
The newly constructed Eastside Gold Line
Rail line gave a great opportunity to teach
low-income Latino high school students
about rail and station area planning.
Over one hundred tenth graders from
Esteban Torres High School’s Renaissance
Academy had a chance to redesign the
Gold Line Eastside Extension Station areas
as part of a series of interactive modeling
sessions designed to introduce them to
urban planning. Rather than introducing
them to urban planning through a
presentation, we took the students to
visit and take notes at three Gold Line
Stations: Mission/Meridian, Lake and Del
Mar Stations. The students presented
their ideas through models of the GoldLine Metro station areas and explained
how their proposed developments around
the stations may increase ridership and
attract people into East Los Angeles.
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RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
REL EVA N T E X PE R I E N C E
DENVER UNION STATION HUB
AND TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
Denver, Colorado
Denver’s historic Union Station is a Beaux Arts masterpiece
located on the edge of the city’s central business district. SOM was
commissioned to expand and transform this station into a major
regional transportation hub. To do so, the firm converted 20 acres
of former rail yards into an urban transit district that orchestrates
light rail, commuter and intercity rail, bicycle and bus routes, and
pedestrian pathways into an intuitive intermodal hub.
The focal point is the open-air Train Hall, which was conceived as
an efficient and formally expressive means of sheltering multiple
railway tracks. Its primary structural system comprises 11 steel
“arch trusses” spanning nearly 180 feet, clad in tensioned PTFE
fabric. In profile, the canopy rises 70 feet at either end and
descends in a dynamic sweep to 22 feet at the center, a gesture
that allows the structure to protect the passenger platforms
below while providing views of the historic station.
A bustling, two-block-long pedestrian promenade links the
Train Hall to the SOM-designed Denver Union Station Light Rail
Terminal. An enhanced network of pedestrian and public spaces
within and around the site seamlessly integrates the hub into
the LoDo (Lower Downtown) district to the east and residential
neighborhoods to the south, west, and north.
Underground, the 22-gate Union Station Bus Concourse services 16
regional, express, and local bus routes. The terminal, measuring 980
feet in length, serves a dual purpose as a pedestrian concourse that
connects the constellation of transportation programs distributed
across the site. Vivid colors and natural lighting help passengers
orient themselves while handsome terrazzo floors and sparkling
yellow glass tile work elevate the ambience of terminal beyond the
often unimaginative depot experience. A series of skylights and
glass pavilions flood the hall with daylight, infusing the station with a
sense of motion and spaciousness.
One of the largest of its kind in the United States, the redevelopment
of the former rail yards at Denver Union Station is a case study of
the power of transit-oriented urban design. This substantial public
investment has catalyzed an unprecedented wave of private-sector
activity. Sensitive to its historic location, but fundamentally forward
looking in its technical sophistication and city-building spirit, Denver
Union Station sets the standard for 21st-century intermodal hubs.
“SOM has worked creatively and
diligently with our community and
many different stakeholders to design
our Denver Union Station project in a
manner that serves transit purposes, but
also creates new important, memorable
and very public places that will promote
investment and enhance the image of
our Downtown.”
William E. Mosher, Owner’s Representative
Denver Union Station Project Authority
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MAJOR TRANSIT COMPONENTS
Light Rail Plaza
Below-Grade Bus Terminal
Commuter Rail Terminal
Historic Union Station Building
- Commuter Rail Ticketing & Waiting Areas
- Adaptive Re-Use as the Union Station Hotel
MILLENNIUM
BRIDGE
Freight Rail Line
Chestnut Pavilion
17Th Street Gardens
Wewatta Pavilion
Pedestrian Bridge
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The west end of the Transit District is anchored by a plaza serving the light rail system and connecting to the Circulator and Mall Shuttle bus
stops, Regional Bus Station entrance pavilion and 17th Street Promenade. There is no distinction between the transit zone and the public
realm. The sculptural forms are ventilation towers; a mechanical system became an architectural feature that animates the public realm.
CONSOLIDATED MAIN
LINE FREIGHT TRACKS
LIGHT RAIL
PLATFORMS
VENTILATION
TOWERS
CHESTNUT PAVILION
CHESTNUT
PLACE
BUS TERMINAL
17 TH ST PROMENADE
PUBLIC CONCOURSE
& BUS TERMINAL
SKYLIGHTS
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STATION
“TRAIN HALL”
WEWATTA
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HISTORIC DENVER
UNION STATION
BUILDING
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ALL ABOARD FLORIDA
Various Locations, Florida
All Aboard Florida is the only privately owned, operated, and
financed project of its kind being developed in the United States
today. All Aboard Florida’s 235-mile network of rail lines will
connect South Florida to Central Florida by operating on the
existing Florida East Coast (FEC) corridor and creating new
tracks to Orlando. The unprecedented infrastructure project will
provide a vital new service for Florida residents, business people,
and visitors and will eliminate more than three million car trips
from the region’s roadways each year. SOM’s three stations —
located in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach — will be
key portals within All Aboard Florida’s rail system.
The 27,500-square-foot Fort Lauderdale station will feature a
sequence of stacked glass boxes that will span across NW 2nd
Street in the city’s downtown. Supported by concrete V-braces, the
station will rise above surrounding buildings, serving as a powerful
urban focal point. The plan for the station itself is open and intuitive.
Arriving passengers will enter a glazed ticketing lobby at grade level,
ascend up an escalator to a bridge over NW 2nd Street, and enter
a departures lounge. The use of glass throughout this sequence of
spaces provides a constant visual connection to the city as well as
approaching trains. Viewed from a distance, the station’s stacked,
dynamic form evokes a feeling of movement.
Envisioned not only as gateways to their respective cities, but
also as iconic destinations, the terminals will be filled with spaces
to shop, eat, and meet. A common material palette, design
aesthetic, and planning strategy unite the three facilities.
The 60,000-square-foot West Palm Beach station will be located
in the heart of the city’s downtown. Great care has been taken to
link the new facility to existing vehicular, trolley, and pedestrian
networks and establish links to the Tri-Rail and Amtrak West
Palm Beach Station. Prominently sited at a nexus of urban
activity, the station will serve as a landmark for the community
and an infrastructural catalyst for continued reinvestment in the
neighborhood. Composed of stacked concrete and glass volumes
supported by concrete V-braces, the elevated passenger concourse
will echo the materiality and overall geometry of both the Miami and
Fort Lauderdale facilities.
In downtown Miami, SOM has responded to a challenging and
dense site by elevating the railways 50 feet in the air. Retail
spaces will be vertically layered beneath the soaring tracks, and
ample use of glass will give the station a shimmering, lightweight
quality. This innovative solution allows thru-streets to remain
open to traffic and for valuable streetfront real estate to remain
leasable. Moreover, this bold architectural gesture creates a
landmark terminal — a symbol of a 21st-century Miami.
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LONG BEACH CIVIC CENTER MASTER PLAN
The project includes a 270,000 square foot City Hall, 93,500
square foot Main Library, 232,000 square foot Port Headquarters,
a revitalization of historic Lincoln Park, as well as design guidelines
for 800 residential units and 50,000 sf of commercial development.
The target LEED® Platinum+ND civic center optimizes operations
and maintenance, reinstating streets, maximizing street parking,
introducing transit plazas and promenades, and expanding bike
infrastructure to create a hierarchy and quality of place.
The Long Beach Civic Center Master Plan is a catalyst for
downtown Long Beach revitalization and reinvestment. By
focusing on the connectivity of the public realm, the project will
open the center of civic life in Long Beach to the community.
The plan’s urban design emphasizes creating a vibrant, mixeduse district with Multimodal transportation connections that
reintegrate the City grid with the regional bike network, buses,
and the Metro Blue Line. Pedestrian improvements and passages
seamlessly weave the site together creating a variety of pathways
and experiences, fortifying Long Beach as a walkable city.
KEY
Metro Blue Line
Bus Routes
Bike Facilities
1. City Hall
2. Port Headquarters
3. Residential/Commercial
4. Main Library
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PARKMERCED VISION PLAN
The Parkmerced Vision Plan is a pioneering neighborhood
revitalization effort. It encompasses a comprehensive and innovative
long-term development program for Parkmerced based on the
applied principles of environmental sustainability and neighborhood
livability. The project promotes these principles by creating
a pedestrian-friendly neighborhood that reduces automobile
dependency by 50% per household; provides much improved
access to transit; creates larger and more usable open spaces; and
relies on constantly evolving environmental technologies to reduce
energy and water usage.
The project proposes to construct (or provide financing for
construction of) a series of major public benefit infrastructure
improvements designed to minimize the percentage of automobile
traffic originating from Parkmerced and improve traffic flow on
adjacent roadways such as 19th Avenue and Brotherhood Way.
Most importantly, the project would reroute the existing Municipal
Railway’s M-Oceanview line from its current alignment along 19th
Avenue. The new alignment would proceed through the social core
at Parkmerced, thus providing convenient transit access for both
Parkmerced visitors and residents. In addition, the project proposes
to beautify the community and civic gateway at the Southwest
corner of San Francisco by landscaping the median area of 19th
Avenue that is currently occupied by the Muni rail tracks.
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CHICAGO LAKESIDE MASTER PLAN
Chicago, Illinois
Working with an international team of experts, SOM has
conceived an ambitious plan for the vacant South Works steel
mill brownfield site that calls for transforming it into a new
environmentally conscious, mixed-use neighborhood. Ten miles
from downtown Chicago, the 600-acre Lakeside development
will be a new anchor for Chicago’s South Side and a model for
sustainable urban living. The lakefront site presents a unique
opportunity to build 21-st Century infrastructure that conserves
water and energy, integrates into an expanded transit network,
incorporates open spaces and the lakefront, and connects
pedestrian and bicycle paths to downtown.
The neighborhood would include high-efficiency housing and
businesses with ample open, green spaces. Every home would sit
within a three-minute walk to a park, and residents and visitors
alike would have waterfront access. Other sustainable strategies
include water recycling, native landscaping programs, the use of
solar and wind power, and the implementation of a smart-grid
district energy system. Advanced stormwater and wastewater
management strategies will help achieve a net-positive water
balance, and recycling will help eliminate landfill waste. Part of the
LEED® for Neighborhood Development Pilot Program, Lakeside will
demonstrate the potential for converting an industrial relic into a
thriving green community.
Downtown
Chicago
South
Chicago
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PHILADELPHIA 30TH STREET STATION MASTER PLAN
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
SOM’s ongoing master plan for Philadelphia’s 30th Street
Station Precinct will realize the long-awaited vision of a bold, fully
integrated mixed-use urban district, with a vibrant transportation
hub situated at its core.
The historic 30th Street Station is a Beaux Arts masterpiece
perched on the western bank of the Schuylkill River. Guided
by studies projecting a sizable uptick in transit activity in the
coming decades, SOM has envisioned a sweeping transformation
for the building and its surroundings. The plan establishes the
framework for a landmark transportation hub that knits together
Center City and University City, the two downtown districts
powering Philadelphia.
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In the proposal — designed in association with Parsons Brinckerhoff,
OLIN, and HR&A Advisors — 30th Street Station is conceived not
only as a gateway to the northeast for the 30,000 passengers who
board its trains each morning, but also as an iconic destination filled
with places to shop, meet, and eat. For the surrounding precinct,
an improved passenger, driver, pedestrian, and cyclist environment
provides cohesion and creates space for new and expanded
buildings for Drexel University. Through bold development, an
activated public realm, and an expanded transit network, the
master plan creates a viable framework for Philadelphia’s next great
neighborhood.
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TIANJIN HIGH-SPEED RAIL STATION
Tianjin, China
China’s premier high-speed rail line is capable of traveling
upward of 400 kilometers per hour across the northeastern part
of the country. The train’s terminal station will be located in the
new mixed-use Tanggu District of Tianjin City, where SOM has
designed an intermodal hub to serve more than 6,000 passengers
during peak hours.
Sited within a 22-hectare park, the station’s the roof structure
rises among a network of curving pedestrian paths. The roof was
developed to be uniquely efficient, lightweight, and economical.
Parabolic trusses evenly distribute loads across the surface of
the building, while a lattice-like framework opens up views to the
sky. Since the station’s platform level is located 21 meters below
grade, skylights play an important role in the design. Fitted with
louvers, the glass skylights and steel framework are angled to
limit direct sunlight during summer months and enhance daylight
during the winter.
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Beneath the distinctive roof, the station is configured to allow
passengers to move quickly and easily between trains and into the
city. A large waiting room provides views to the rail platforms, while
a clear system of walkways leads from the main waiting area into
a mixed-use space. In addition to the high-performance lighting
system, a series of sustainable strategies — including a groundsource heat pump, thermal chimneys, and bioswales — have been
integrated into the design.
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CONSULTANT RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
CONSULTANT RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Nelson\Nygaard
Multimodal Connectivity
Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, Inc. is an internationally
recognized firm committed to developing transportation systems
that promote vibrant, sustainable, and accessible communities.
Founded by two women in 1987, Nelson\Nygaard has grown
from its roots in transit planning to a 123-person, full-service
transportation firm with offices across the United States.
In keeping with the values set by the firm’s founders, Nelson\
Nygaard puts people first. They recognize that transportation
is not an end by itself but a platform for achieving broader
community goals of mobility, equity, economic development, and
healthy living. The firm’s hands-on, national experience informs
but doesn’t dictate local solutions. Built on consensus and a
multimodal approach, their plans are renowned as practical and
implementable.
Nelson\Nygaard specializes in:
• Transit Systems
•Paratransit
• Walking and Bicycling
• Parking Management
• Multimodal Networks
• Campus Access
• Taxi and On-Demand Services
• Traffic Analysis
Recognized for projects around the world, Nelson\Nygaard has
received awards and honors from professional organizations
and government agencies including the American Planning
Association, the Federal Transit Administration, the Association of
Environmental Professionals, the American Society of Landscape
Architects, the Congress for the New Urbanism, and the Canadian
Institute of Planners.
Relevant Project Experience
Merced High Speed Rail
Merced, California
Partnering with The City of Merced, Nelson\Nygaard planned the
development of the City’s high speed rail station project, achieving
the development of a transportation plan, a land use plan around
the station, and supporting plans for the Station Area Plan such
as streamlined development review procedures, an infrastructure
plan, a finance and market strategy plan, and an implementation
and phasing plan. Nelson\Nygaard incorporated the Station Area
Plan into the City’s existing planning documents and performed
an environmental review required to support the development of
the High Speed Rail Station Area Plan and changes to the existing
documents.
Fresno Fulton Corridor Specific Plan
and Downtown Neighborhoods
Fresno, California
Nelson\Nygaard assisted Moule & Polyzoides Architects in creating
detailed plans for Fresno’s downtown area and the surrounding
historic neighborhoods. These plans crafted a bold vision for
the city, but they also provided clearly prioritized, sequential
implementation steps that are implementable with the city’s limited
resources. Nelson\Nygaard’s efforts included detailed strategies for
accommodating a high speed rail station in the heart of downtown,
including a new alignment for the rail, road diets for many downtown
streets to create the most robust bicycle network in California,
reconfigured bus service to provide more reliable comfortable
service to passengers while reducing the footprint of the downtown
transit center, new transportation performance measures that
prioritize economic development and pedestrian comfort, and
planning services for this re-visioning project for the neighborhoods
in and around Downtown Fresno.
Sacramento Zoning Code/Parking Code Update
Sacramento, California
Nelson\Nygaard planned a citywide reform of how the City of
Sacramento plans, designs, builds, evaluates, and thinks about
its parking resources in accordance with its General Plan. Nelson\
Nygaard developed a zoning and parking code that addressed both
transportation and economic challenges through a comprehensive
and data-driven evaluation process that allowed a deeper
understanding of Sacramento’s parking issues.
HR&A Advisors, Inc.
Economic and Financial Planning
HR&A Advisors, Inc. (HR&A) is an industry-leading real estate,
economic development and public policy consulting firm. We
have provided strategic advisory services for some of the most
complex mixed-use, neighborhood, downtown, campus, and
regional development projects across North America and abroad
since 1976. We understand the importance of linking accretive
private investment with public resources to support investors
and communities’ responsibilities and aspirations. HR&A guides
clients to leverage economic and real estate development
potential from transit infrastructure and transportation
improvements. HR&A’s transit-oriented development (TOD)
work is informed by our specific expertise in market analysis,
award-winning economic development initiatives, development
implementation strategies, successful public-private
partnerships, and a track record of successful implementation.
HR&A’s staff experience combines transit agency management
with public and private real estate knowledge, which makes the
firm particularly well-positioned for planning and implementation
for new development around transit facilities. HR&A has created
plans and implementation strategies for projects surrounding
individual station areas, corridor-based development frameworks,
as well as regional policies and long-range plans for TOD and
infrastructure finance. We regularly provide guidance to private
developers, local governments and transit agencies seeking to
facilitate TOD policies, plans and projects. We have offices in Los
Angeles, New York, and Washington D.C., with a professional staff
of 70, a presence that allows us to serve clients all over the world.
In addition to TOD, our firm experience includes:
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Economic and Fiscal Impact Analysis
Market and Financial Feasibility Analysis
Economic Revitalization Strategy
Energy Efficiency Program Design and Administration
Public-Private Development
Open Space Strategy
Retail Revitalization Strategy
Affordable Housing Strategy
Master Plan Support
Capital Planning for Building Energy Performance
Public Policy Analysis
Managing and Securing Development Approvals
Military Base Reuse Planning
Organizational Implementation
ARRIVE Corridor Market and Implementation Strategy
HR&A was retained by the San Bernardino Association of
Governments (SANBAG) to assist in formulating the land
use vision and implementation strategy for transit oriented
development (TOD) along the San Bernardino Metrolink line,
encompassing six municipalities in San Bernardino County. The
project, referred to as the Advanced Regional Rail Integrated
Vision-East (ARRIVE) Corridor will serve as a transferable strategy
transitioning a traditional commuter rail corridor to a more
integrated TOD/regional rail corridor. HR&A conducted an in-depth
market opportunities analysis to define a project vision at the
Corridor level as well as for each of the Station areas, identified
existing barriers to development, and provided a range of near
term and long term implementation recommendations to focus an
appropriate mix and intensity of development along the corridor.
The project is funded by SCAG and has incorporated the principles
and ideas advocated by SCAG’s Sustainable Community Strategy
(SCS) to implementation.
City of Glendale Space 134 Freeway Cap Park
Glendale, California
On behalf of the Southern California Association of Governments
(SCAG), and the City of Glendale, CA, HR&A, as part of a
multidisciplinary team has been tasked with supporting the City
in its pursuit to plan a freeway cap park over the 134 freeway in
downtown Glendale. HR&A will provide a business plan for the
park in terms of both capital and ongoing operations. The capital
plan will involve estimating potential funding from an Enhanced
Infrastructure Financing District (EIFD) by identifying underutilized
parcels near the park, analyzing their development capacity and
using tax area information to project how much revenue they may
generate to support an EIFD.
Revitalizing The Union Depot Multimodal Transit Hub
St. Paul, Minnesota
HR&A led a multidisciplinary team to prepare an economic
analysis, development strategy, market analysis for real estate
development, recommended a preferred development program
for the station that includes a distinctive retail destination and
marketplace, event spaces, and public parking, established
a transit-oriented development strategy for adjacent land,
analyzed the economic benefits of project implementation, and
recommended an implementation and stewardship structure for
ongoing project success.
CONSULTANT RELEVANT EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED)
Rincon Consultants Inc.
Environmental Analysis
Rincon Consultants, Inc. is a multi-disciplinary environmental
sciences, planning, and engineering consulting firm with offices
in Fresno, Oakland, Sacramento, Monterey, San Luis Obispo,
Ventura, Los Angeles, Riverside, and Carlsbad. Founded in 1994,
Rincon is currently staffed by over 90 professional planners,
transportation specialists, environmental scientists, noise
specialists, air quality scientists, water quality experts, biologists,
arborists, archaeologists, paleontologists, hazardous materials
experts and geologists. The firm has received numerous awards of
excellence from professional and business organizations.
A core business area for Rincon is transportation and public
works infrastructure projects and we have developed a reputation
for successfully completing the environmental analysis and
permitting processes for a broad range of transit, parking,
roadway improvement, sound wall, HOV lanes, bicycle facility,
multi-use trail, and other Multimodal transportation infrastructure
projects throughout California. For many of these transportation
projects, we have conducted comprehensive environmental
review for each project phase, beginning with constraints analysis
at an early stage of project design, through the CEQA/NEPA
process, including resource agency permitting and hazardous
materials assessment and coordination that inform final design,
and following project approval, through construction monitoring
and inspection. Rincon has a wealth of experience providing
CEQA environmental review services for RTPs and other regional
plans and programs as well as individual projects. Project types
have ranged from analysis on Regional Transportation Plans,
transit terminals, regional multi-purpose trail projects, road
widening, and park-and-ride lots, to comprehensive general plans
(including circulation elements). Rincon is currently providing
environmental services for two California High Speed Rail
segments.
Rincon maintains an excellent reputation and strong relationships
with local regulatory, planning and public works agencies
throughout the greater Bakersfield area. Of particular importance
for this contract is our successful track record of working with
and processing a wide range of environmental documents for
FTA, Caltrans, FHWA and many of the special districts and
municipalities that served stakeholders in similar transportation
projects. In addition we are highly experienced working with
government agencies such as the Regional Water Quality Control
Board, Air Pollution Control District, Fish and Wildlife Service, and
the Army Corps of Engineers.
California High-Speed Rail, Merced to Fresno Construction
Package No. 1, Environmental Compliance Oversight
Rincon is providing environmental compliance oversight as a
member of the Project Construction Management (PCM) team
for the Merced to Fresno Construction Package No. 1 portion
of the California High-Speed Rail project. Rincon serves as the
Environmental Oversight Manager, and also provided several other
resource specialists, for the PCM team. Duties include overseeing all
aspects of environmental compliance including biological resources,
cultural resources, storm water pollution prevention, paleontological
resources, air quality, noise, hazardous materials, and aesthetics.
Rincon’s team is working closely with the PCM, the California High
Speed Rail Authority, and the Design-Build Contractor during both
the design and construction phases to maintain the project as
compliant with the Environmental Impact Reports/Environmental
Impact Statements and numerous state and federal permits.
California High-Speed Rail, Bakersfield to Palmdale Section
Environmental/Engineering Work
Rincon is part of the team preparing preliminary engineering,
environmental planning and clearance, and public outreach for
the Bakersfield to Palmdale Section of the California High Speed
Rail System. As part of the work program, Rincon is preparing the
technical reports and EIR/EIS for several environmental issue
areas, including greenhouse gas emissions, hazardous materials
and waste, aesthetics and visual quality, paleontological resources,
regional growth, and cumulative impacts. Rincon is leading the
biological resources permitting work and assisting with the field
surveys and impact analysis of biological resources and wetlands.
Merced High Speed Rail Station Area Plan
CEQA Documentation
Rincon Consultants is part of the Opticos Design team that was
selected to provide consulting services for the City of Merced
High Speed Rail Station Area Plan. The proposed HSR Station will
represent the point of arrival for rail passengers coming or leaving
the City of Merced. It is proposed to be located at the eastern end of
Merced’s older Downtown area. The Merced County Association of
Governments adopted a Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable
Communities Strategy in 2014, which incorporates a policy
supporting the California High Speed Rail project through Merced
County. Rincon will tier the Merced High Speed Rail Station Area
Plan CEQA analysis from this document and the City’s 2012 General
Plan and EIR.
Arellano Associates (DBE)
Public Outreach and Education
CHSRA Bakersfield to Palmdale
Established in 1994, Arellano Associates (AA) is a consulting firm
specializing in communications and public outreach, community
and government relations, and strategic planning and marketing
programs. AA has placed a specific emphasis upon assisting
public sector clients with improved analytical, communications
and strategic planning methods for maximum benefit to
constituents, the general public and the overall environment. Our
team of professionals provides comprehensive communications
and planning services for the full spectrum of public projects
from planning to construction or implementation. AA also
offers specialized professional services geared toward Latino
and Spanish speaking communities. AA is a Limited Liability
Corporation and is woman and minority owned. AA is a certified
Small Business-owned (SBE) and Disadvantaged Business
Enterprise (DBE). AA operates out of a single office in the City of
Chino Hills and is comprised of a team of 28 staff members.
AA is proposing a highly qualified team that will be effective in
delivering a successful outreach program. To supplement our
core team, VMA Communications (VMA) will work alongside AA to
deliver comprehensive and unmatched services. Most recently,
the firms have worked together on the Southern California
outreach team for CA High-Speed Rail project’s Bakersfield to
Palmdale, Palmdale to Burbank and Los Angeles to Anaheim
sections. In their respective roles they have collaborated and
strategized on shared issues and on issues pertinent to the
Southern California region. VMA has a wealth of experience
within the project corridor and with the area’s key stakeholders.
These existing relationships and relevant experience will serve
to strengthen our approach and ability to deliver a successful
outreach program.
The focus of The Bakersfield to Palmdale Project is to develop a
work program to prepare environmental studies and analyses that
will be used to satisfy both the state and federal requirements.
Arellano Associates is responsible for developing and implementing
a public involvement program focused on identifying regional
and local issues and concerns of the potential impacts of HSR
system and for proposing necessary mitigation measures. Arellano
Associates’ public outreach team will focus on Environmental
Justice outreach and stakeholder communication. In this capacity,
AA will confirm that the Authority is responsibly engaging with the
communities the project will serve and affect.
Northwest 138 Corridor Improvement Project
The Northwest 138 Corridor Improvement Project will expand on
the previous North County combined Highway Corridor Study,
completed in 2004 to develop a Multimodal transportation plan
for the northern portion of Los Angeles County to address both
short and long-term needs for a variety of trip purposes and
goods movement. AA is leading the public information program
for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Report (DEIS/R) in
close coordination with Caltrans District 7 and partner agencies.
Specific tasks include a Public Participation Plan that complies
with NEPA/CEQA process, the coordination of the elected briefings
and public meetings, development of a social media program that
encompasses online meeting facilitation and webinars. Other
tasks include: project website, stakeholder database, and project
collateral materials.
Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC)
The City of Anaheim lead the design and construction of the ARTIC
project, which is located on Katella Avenue between the Honda
Center and Angels Stadium of Anaheim. AA is leading the public
involvement efforts during the design and construction phases of
the project. The comprehensive public outreach program includes:
key stakeholder database development; enhanced website with a
project video; key messages; public meetings and presentations,
a speakers’ bureau; collateral materials (fact sheets, brochures,
newsletters; media relations; elected officials, agencies and
organization presentations; stakeholder briefings; special events
coordination; industry and trade conference presentations and
exhibiting; video production and social networking.
CONSULTANT RELEVANT EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED)
Place It! (DBE Pending)
Public Engagement
Place It! is a Los Angeles County based firm founded by James
Rojas in 2010. He has developed an innovative public-engagement
and community-visioning tool that uses art making and play as
the venue to insure maximum public participation and input. His
method breaks down age, gender, race, profession, personality
type, and language barriers in the planning process.
Eastside High School Students Re-design Gold Line Stations
James is an international expert in public engagement and
has traveled around the US, Mexico, Canada, Europe, and
South America, facilitating over four hundred workshops, and
building seventy interactive models. He has collaborated with
municipalities, non-profits, community groups, educational
institutions, and museums, to engage, educate, and empower the
public on transportation, housing, open space and health issues.
His award-winning method has been replicated across the globe.
The newly constructed Eastside Gold Line Rail line gave a great
opportunity to teach low-income Latino high school students about
rail and station area planning. Over one hundred tenth graders from
Esteban Torres High School’s Renaissance Academy had a chance
to redesign the Gold Line Eastside Extension Station areas as part
of a series of interactive modeling sessions designed to introduce
them to urban planning. Rather than introducing them to urban
planning through a presentation, we took the students to visit and
take notes at three Gold Line Stations: Mission/Meridian, Lake
and Del Mar Stations. The students presented their ideas through
models of the Gold-Line Metro station areas and explained how their
proposed developments around the stations may increase ridership
and attract people into East Los Angeles.
James is the national expert in Latino urbanism and has written
and lectured extensively about how culture and immigration are
transforming the American City.
Latino Outreach
Eugene, Oregon
A collaboration with the University of Oregon Center for Latino/a
and Latin American Studies, City of Eugene’s Office of Human Rights
& Neighborhood Involvement, in partnership with the with Parks
and Recreation Staff to develop and implement specialized outreach
with the Latino community as part of the Parks & Recreation System
Plan. This plan will guide the development and operation of Eugene’s
parks, trails, recreation facilities and sports fields for the next 10
years. The goal of the outreach efforts was to engage hard to reach
Latino immigrant constituents in making sure they had input in the
process and that the city’s park and recreation system is useable
and welcoming to everyone in the community.
Los Angeles Mobility Element
General Plan
The facilitation of a series of workshops for the LA Mobility plan. The
workshop allowed participants to think about mobility as a personal
experience, rather than a problem. This approach generated many
creative ideas for the city of LA.
2. PROJECT APPROACH AND WORK SCHEDULE
With nearly 80 years of international
leadership in planning and design,
SOM comes to this project with a
deep insight and understanding of
the planning, land use, transportation,
development, and urban design
complexities involved with the creation
of the Downtown Bakersfield High
Speed Rail Station Area Plan.
Our work developing master plans for downtowns matched with
our designs for high speed rail and other multimodal stations
gives the SOM Team a unique perspective of the challenges and
opportunities for this project. Together with our expert team of
consultants, who bolster our credentials, we are prepared to develop
a flexible, accountable, and implementable station area plan for
Downtown Bakersfield that promotes economic development and
sustainability, encourages station area development, and enhances
multimodal access connection between the future station and City.
Our team sees grassroots engagement and public outreach as
critical for building support and momentum for future new and
infill development around the station, but also the station and High
Speed Rail project itself. The planning process is an opportunity to
develop a shared vision for downtown Bakersfield that complements
the Metropolitan Bakersfield General Plan and other initiatives with
new ideas that expand the vitality, mobility, and livability of the heart
of the region. Our unique approach to engagement challenges the
public and decision-makers alike to think differently about their
community in order to find common ground. To fully engage and
mobilize stakeholders in downtown and beyond, we bring two of
California’s leading outreach and engagement teams, including
Arellano Associates (with support from a local, Bakersfield-based
company, VMA Communications), who in collaboration with SOM,
will create a comprehensive engagement strategy and plan that will
bring in every last voice to the process, as well as Place It!, whose
engagement exercises and activities breaks down social, cultural,
and linguistic barriers through the language of design.
Nelson\Nygaard is a leader in multimodal transportation
planning and integration, and has literally written the book on
the design of urban streets for NACTO (National Association of
City Transportation Officials). Most importantly, they provide
the core expertise to identify, coordinate, and design an efficient
multimodal network that not only services passengers and visitors,
but also provides seamless transportation option for the region’s
workforce and residents. The national transportation experience
of Nelson\Nygaard and their understanding of modal hierarchy will
assist in the definition and analysis of existing transportation and
infrastructure conditions, multimodal connectivity, parking demand
management, and the final vision, as well as the implementation
strategy, infrastructure needs analysis, and monitoring program.
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While SOM will lead the design and planning within the project
area, HR&A Advisors’ market analysis and economic development
strategy work will support the design process from start to finish,
providing information and insight that supports an understanding
of regional demand, project phasing, and real estate growth around
the station areas. The focus will be designing a transit-oriented
community that supports a more vibrant downtown, as well as
the ridership success of the High Speed Rail and regional transit
systems. HR&A will use its economic development experience to
lead the creation of an actionable downtown economic development
plan that builds on Bakersfield’s strengths and leverages new
High Speed Rail connections. HR&A’s TOD experience in California
and across the nation will support their development of an
implementation strategy for the station area concepts created by
SOM, which will include value capture and financing strategies, as
well as fiscal impact analysis.
Finally, Rincon Consultants are a dedicated firm of environmental
scientists, planners, and engineers that are proficient in the
California environmental review process. Their work in and
around Bakersfield, coupled with their diverse project experience
provides a level of flexibility for the team to navigate the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA0 requirements and process),
balancing the needs of the project, the changing regulatory
landscape, and the diverse environmental, archeological, and
historical conditions of the project area.
The Downtown Bakersfield High Speed Rail Station Area Plan
requires detailed expertise and a deep understanding in a wide
range of fields. To address pedestrian and bicycle access, jobs,
shopping, dining, entertainment, recreation, art, cultural, public
health, amenities, lighting, signage, open space, architecture, urban
design, parking, landscaping, environmental and human impacts,
among other issues, our team provides a unique approach—local
and national leaders in their respective disciplines, working together
to help implement this transformative opportunity in Bakersfield. We
believe that the incredible diversity of experience and capabilities
represented in the SOM team provides the City with the opportunity
to succeed in implementing the project for the long-term.
Understanding the Opportunity
High Speed Rail is much more than a means to simply improve
mobility across California. It is a strategic investment in the
future vitality and success of the State and its many metropolitan
areas and regional centers. High Speed Rail, when seamlessly
integrated into a local site context and transportation network,
has a transformative impact on the cities, towns, communities
and neighborhoods in which it is built, promoting development,
attracting new businesses and residents, enhancing livability,
connecting regions, and redefining the physical character of the
neighborhood around each station.
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In the past few decades, urban cores across the State and nation
have seen significant investment and revitalization in the form
of infrastructure improvements, service upgrades, and strategic
redevelopment. In Bakersfield, projects like the Bakersfield Museum
of Art, Rabobank Arena, the reopening of the Fox Theatre and
the Amtrak multimodal station are only a couple of examples of
this type of strategic investment that is important not just for the
general public’s quality of life, but for the long-term trajectory of
the City. The Downtown Bakersfield High Speed Rail station is
yet another powerful public infrastructure investment that takes
revitalization efforts to a whole new level of connectivity and
redevelopment.
In support of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(ARRA) Grant Guidelines, State led guidance on the reduction of
Greenhouse Gas emissions (SB 375), and California High Speed
Rail Authority (CAHSRA) station area guidelines, the creation of
a Downtown Bakersfield High Speed Rail Station Area Plan will
organize efforts to plan, design, and build more coordinated land
use and transportation systems. These also support the region’s
recent efforts with the Kern Council of Governments to identify a
strategic transit center location to support local transit efficacy.
These transportation and land use planning initiatives all play into
Bakersfield’s future success, and is dependent on its ability to
enhance existing and create new vital neighborhoods and activity
centers that add long-term value, providing exceptional quality of
life, and major urban amenities.
Evaluating Potential Impacts
Based on our understanding of the City and this Request for
Proposals (RFP), the goals for this project - increasing population
and jobs downtown, strengthening adjacent neighborhood
and employment centers, spurring redevelopment and in-fill
development, connecting key activity centers, and improving
transit service - highlight what is at stake with this project. SOM
brings together a multi-disciplinary team of experts who will study,
synthesize, and recommend an approach that optimizes positive
outcomes from a High Speed Rail station in Downtown Bakersfield.
We will evaluate the impact on land use, economic development
and the existing transportation network using a comprehensive
framework of criteria under the following topics:
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Alignment with citywide goals
Compatibility with existing plans and initiatives
Redevelopment and infill development potential
Land use regulatory framework
Demographic and market trends
Economic activity
Efficient and effective transit service
Multimodal connectivity
Parking and traffic impacts
CITYWIDE GOALS
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
Throughout this project, the Metropolitan Bakersfield General
Plan and its elements will be the touchstone for our analysis.
We will seek consistency with ARRA grant guidelines, regional
planning efforts required by SB 375, the CAHSRA programmatic
and project environmental documents and station area plan
development policies. We will define how to leverage the
economic impact of the station to maximize the potential return
on Investment and to catalyze transformative improvements to
Downtown, its many adjacent neighborhoods, and the region.
As a link in the high speed rail network of all of California with an
easy commute or trip to almost anywhere in California, we will
work with the City to identify the opportunities that will position
Bakersfield to compete and thrive in the future.
From ARRA grant guidelines down to zoning, the SOM Team is
well equipped to understand the complete regulatory framework
for this project. We will use data to understand the context and
existing conditions, and then synthesize the meaning of each
interdependent layer of regulation from Federal to local jurisdictions.
Understanding these constraints affords the opportunity to identify
potential roadblocks to redevelopment, as well as synergies for
meeting broader project and community goals.
COMPATIBILITY WITH EXISTING PLANS
The High Speed Rail system must be planned and developed in
coordination with the entire transportation and transit system.
With the projected ridership of the system augmenting many
travel patterns (driving and flying will be replaced by rail travel),
Bakersfield’s High Speed Rail Station could support a volume
of traffic comparable to a small airport right in the heart of
Downtown. It serves to bring people from outside the region to
Bakersfield, and once they arrive they will need a comprehensive
multimodal system that offers transportation and route choices.
A High Speed Rail passenger will need to be able to walk to their
hotel, residence, or place of business downtown just as easily as
they will need to hop on a bus to go to college, or into a car-share
to get to Shafter, California.
SOM’s Project Team will use adopted and on-going planning
efforts to guide its development, identify points of integration and
inter-connectedness, and remove any unwanted redundancies.
REDEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL
High Speed Rail, like all fixed rail infrastructure has been a proven
catalyst for new infill development and broader redevelopment. To
understand the development potential of Downtown Bakersfield,
the SOM Team brings international experience with both TransitOriented Developments and master planning for high speed rail
station areas. Using our analytic tools, we will estimate transitinduced economic development and identify the causes of uneven
development across Downtown.
DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS
In the United States there is a huge demographic shift occurring
that is driving the market in new directions. Understanding how this
change impacts development around the future High Speed Rail
station, and leveraging this information to frame potential issues
and solution is imperative for this planning process. Not only are
more professionals moving back to cities, but the travel patterns
of many Californians may shift as the relative cost effectiveness
and other draws to Kern County are more readily realized by
reduced commute or travel times to other parts of the State from
Bakersfield.
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
The economic impact of High Speed Rail goes beyond new
development. This large public investment in Downtown Bakersfield
holds the potential to transform and revitalize the City’s urban core,
including the many neighborhoods of the Study Area. Our analysis
will present a holistic framework to determine where, when, and how
the City can leverage the greatest economic impact.
TRANSIT SERVICE
Bringing High Speed Rail to Bakersfield will require transit services
to be augmented. The SOM Teams’ evaluation will include an
assessment of how transit service will complement the new
High Speed Rail station and vice versa. We will determine system
efficiency with the siting of the High Speed Rail station, and seek
conformity with the recently completed transit center study.
This analysis will be conceptual during the initial analysis, and
become more detailed during the selection of a final vision with
recommendations, and into the creation of an implementation
strategy.
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MULTIMODAL
Planning for the Long-Term
The SOM Team will frame, analyze, and develop recommendations
within a multimodal framework. We understand that a truly
balanced and diverse transportation system is an efficient
transportation system, and that greater options in transportation
improve the accessibility and mobility of all users. The first
and last mile of a trip contribute greatly to the effectiveness
of transit, just as a connected street network manages traffic
flows while allowing multiple routes for pedestrians and
bicyclists. As the High Speed Rail system goes from one town
to another in California, it is effectively improving the walkability
of each. Strengthening pedestrian connections to adjacent
neighborhoods, activity centers, and destinations will improve
overall mobility.
During the course of this project, the City and community
stakeholders will have to make decisions about what factors
are most important to Downtown Bakersfield as this planning
effort is a potential lead in to the a Downtown Specific Plan. For
example, is enhanced connectivity the most important goal, or
should redevelopment potential drive the prioritization decisions?
Should priority be placed on supporting existing anchors and
activity centers, or the development of new quality places? All of
these factors are important to consider and must be balanced
when screening alternative station area scenarios, and an ongoing
dialogue with the community will shape a prioritization of desired
outcomes.
PARKING AND TRAFFIC IMPACT
The standard thinking for High Speed Rail stations are large
platforms and even larger parking garages. While this study will
have little impact on the size of the platform, we do have the
opportunity to change the thinking around what is required to
address parking and traffic impacts from the High Speed Rail
station. Focusing on transportation alternatives, new innovative
technologies (Uber, Zipcar, etc.), and the future of transportation
(autonomous vehicles) will reduce the need for parking,
encourage a more vibrant Downtown Bakersfield, and improve
economic development potential by more seamlessly integrating
the station into the existing context.
It is imperative that the final alternative is developed with a
defensible strategy that consists of quantifiable urban design,
transportation, and economic development criteria. The criteria
will be developed and vetted through our extensive public and
stakeholder engagement process to tailor the analysis to the unique
needs of the City and build acceptance and support for the process.
To be successful, this project must clearly lay out the “next
steps” for the High Speed Rail station area. Our team will
provide recommendations for the types of investments that will
complement the new High Speed Rail station, as well as specific
guidance on how to design, fund, and construct the selected
alternative. Central to the SOM Team’s approach is the recognition
that this project is an opportunity to develop a long-term strategic
approach for the successful implementation of the entire study area
and beyond.
We believe that this shared purpose and focus on the greatest
impact to the City as a whole will better position the City to
successfully implement future plans, policies, investments, and
developments, and better mobilize community members to
advocate and organize for implementation.
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Scope of Work
TASK 2: DEVELOP A COMMUNITY AND STAKEHOLDER
OUTREACH STRATEGY
TASK 1: DEVELOP A WORK PLAN
SOM will administer and manage the project work plan, including
a scope of work, schedule, budget, and project milestones.
The Work Plan will identify a Work Planning Team to keep the
project on track, that any extenuating circumstances or other
developments are incorporated into the process, and that
everyone is clear on the roles and responsibilities of each task
item as the project progresses.
A Work Planning Team will be defined and created by the City
and the SOM Team in order to manage and provide flexibility
within the planning process. As we all know planning processes
are iterative and evolve as issues arise. To meet the needs of this
project, we propose that the project includes all the necessary
decision-makers to address issues immediately and move
forward. We also propose that the Work Planning Team meet
at least bi-weekly so that there is an immediate presence and
consistency to the administration of the project for the many
stakeholder agencies involved.
The project kick-off meeting will be held within the first month
after the notice to proceed is issued. This will jump start the
planning process, and initiate the public outreach and education
process. A critical part of the SOM Team process and approach
is working in partnership with our clients. As the experts of your
City and region, it is imperative that we leverage your institutional
knowledge and resources to be able to “hit the ground running”.
As such, the first portion of the work plan will include a list of
information and data sets required to immediately begin our
existing conditions analysis.
Community engagement is critical to the success of this station
area plan. From financing, engineering, alignment acquisition, and
environmental review, the new California High Speed Rail project
will have real and significant impacts on residents, businesses, and
property owners throughout the Bakersfield region and the State.
The High Speed Rail project is also a catalyst for significant change
in the built environment, in terms of how cities grow, the character
of that development, and the vitality of Downtown Bakersfield. A
deep, meaningful engagement process is necessary to spark the
public’s imagination of what is possible for their community, and
really create buy-in by being an integral and informative part of the
decision-making process. Simultaneously, each engagement effort
from flyers to large public meetings is an opportunity to inform and
educate the public about the benefits of the High Speed Rail project,
and its potential economic development benefits.
The SOM Team will be effective in delivering a successful outreach
and education program. Leading the outreach and education
effort on our team is Arellano Associates. To supplement our core
team, VMA Communications (VMA) will work alongside Arellano
Associates to deliver comprehensive services. Additionally, Place It!
will assist with innovative engagement strategies at public meetings.
Arellano Associates and VMA Communications partnered on the
Southern California outreach team for CA High-Speed Rail project’s
Bakersfield to Palmdale, Palmdale to Burbank, and Los Angeles to
Anaheim sections. In their respective roles they have collaborated
and strategized on shared issues and on issues pertinent to the
Southern California region. VMA Communications has a wealth
of experience within the project corridor and with the area’s key
stakeholders. These existing relationships and relevant experience
will serve to strengthen our approach and ability to deliver a
successful outreach program.
Task 1 Deliverables:
1. Establish Work Planning Team (meet bi-weekly)
2.Host Project Kick-Off Meeting (within the first month)
3.Project Work Plan (scope, schedule, budget, and milestones)
The Place It! methodology aims at giving everyone a voice and
empowering them to start thinking about how to change their
environment. Combining design thinking with model-building
activities, Place It! has developed a new tactile tool for urban inquiry.
This method gives the public the tools to observe and analyze their
own lives rather than have that process be mediated. Working with
the entire SOM Team, Place It! will build a model of the Downtown
Bakersfield study area as an interactive platform through which
to encourage people to see, touch, experience, and use their
imaginations. Unlike typical planning outreach tools — maps,
pictures, surveys, and social media — the models are sculptures
that capture the visual and spatial nature of how people actually
experience the city. The public is encouraged to move pieces
around the diorama to reshape the city to their liking. The models
and other workshop exercises create safe spaces for the public to
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nurture ideas, communicate through storytelling, and collaborate.
Stakeholders in the process engage through memory, art, and
play to better understand themselves and their community’s
assets, needs, and challenges. Above all, it makes engaging in the
planning process easy and fun!
Online Tools: The SOM Team proposes the creation of a project
website and other online engagement tools like My Sidewalk, Survey
Monkey, and Streetmix. Social media also becomes a very important
tool to raise awareness, provide project status updates, and also
generate excitement within the local community.
The SOM Team has a depth of experience on the California High
Speed project within the City of Bakersfield. Our engagement
and outreach team has already cultivated relationships within the
community and region. The outreach and engagement team will
act as liaisons that will go beyond traditional engagement roles
to inform and educate, build consensus, and design a path to
implementation. We intend to bring the diversity of stakeholders
together to work and collaborate on the project, thereby building
local capacity and empowering the community that will transform
general support into project advocates for the long-term.
Stakeholder and Technical Committees: The SOM Team will work
with the City and other Work Planning Team members to define the
appropriate composition of a Stakeholder and Technical Committee.
The Stakeholder Committee will focus on local community leaders
such as neighborhood presidents, business improvement district
executive directors, chairs of the local chamber of commerce, and
the heads of various professional organizations, among others. The
Technical Committee would essentially function as an expanded
Work Planning Team that includes additional City Department
heads, the County, Golden Empire Transit, and other State agencies,
among others. Where the Stakeholder Committee will function as a
litmus of the project as it progresses and assist with understanding
the local context and identifying key community issues and
additional community contacts, the Technical Committee will
discuss the details of the project to implement local best practices
and provide guidance on project direction.
The SOM Team’s engagement strategy will build upon existing
community plans and aspirations, and may include the following
methods of public engagement and outreach:
Public Meetings and Events: The SOM Team proposes a series of
public meetings to be scheduled ahead of major milestones. An
initial public meeting will gather stakeholder input on the vision
for Downtown Bakersfield with High Speed Rail. A second public
meeting will vet preferred alternatives based on community input
and other evaluation criteria. Finally, a third public meeting will
review the final preferred alternative vision plan. We understand
that it is important to meet people where they are, and additional
meetings (one on one, neighborhood groups, chambers of
commerce, professional organizations, etc...) will supplement the
input from these larger project specific meetings.
1. Community Outreach Strategy and Education Plan
2.Establish Stakeholder Committee (meets monthly)
3.Establish Technical/Steering Committee (meets monthly)
Partnerships: The SOM Team proposes to develop collaborative
partnerships with local organizations and institutions in Downtown
Bakersfield. This will not only raise awareness and provide
information and education materials to additional stakeholders
outside of established public meetings and events, but as an
intentional effort to create advocates for the project and build the
momentum for its successful implementation.
Place It! Projects - Top and Bottom:
Re-Imagine Raleigh:
A Creative Urban Planning Project
Re-Image the Western Addition:
SF Sunday Streets
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TASK 3: HSR STATION AREA VISION PLAN
The SOM Team will launch the planning process with a visioning
exercise that educates stakeholders on the best practices in
Station Area Planning and Transit-Oriented Communities. From
this informed perspective, the SOM Team will ask the public to
define their goals for not only the station area plan and process,
but of Downtown Bakersfield and the High Speed Rail project. The
principles agreed upon during this process will set the standard
by which the various alternatives are designed and developed.
During this initial outreach and education, the SOM Team will
develop an existing conditions report of the study area that
informs practical and technical issues of the project site, and
potentially raise new questions about civic priorities and local
interests. Cataloging infrastructure, land use, transportation, and
other development and demographic trends will in turn inform the
creation of various alternatives to address some, most, and/or all
of the issues uncovered through the initial analysis.
Taking the final vision plan and developing an implementation
strategy for it will require additional efforts. Always with an eye
to implementation, throughout the entire planning process a list
of complimentary projects, initiatives, policy changes, and other
planning efforts will be collected and synthesized into an organized,
succinct, and implementable strategy, complete with champions,
a timeline and milestones for each project spread across the broad
group of interests and stakeholder groups. The implementation
strategy will include economic, transportation, infrastructure, and
urban design components
1. Vision Statement
2.Existing Conditions Report
3.Draft Station Area Scenarios
4.Final Vision Plan
Using the existing conditions report and the market analysis,
the SOM Team will then develop different approaches to address
the goals, aspirations, and constraints of the project area. These
approaches will go beyond testing the status quo to arrive at a
preferred alternative, but themselves be independent proposals
that will be defended by the data. Each alternative will undergo a
parking and demand management analysis and a value capture
and fiscal impact study to create a set of quantifiable evaluation
criteria that with other factors like public input will set the basis
for determining the preferred alternative. It is important to
note that the siting of the project might come into play during
the development of alternatives. While the locally preferred
alternative is different than the original determination by the
California High Speed Rail Authority, this study will provide
the platform to discuss more than alignments and property
acquisition, and expand to understanding the larger costs and
benefits of each location.
A preferred alternative will be chosen with input from the
client, committees, and the general public. Once selected, the
preferred alternative will undergo a deeper dive into the costs and
benefits through a final vision plan process that will include final
circulation and parking recommendations and the creation of an
economic development plan.
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TASK 4: MULTIMODAL CONNECTIVITY
Together with the SOM Team, Nelson\Nygaard will lead the
multimodal access, parking, and circulation planning efforts
for the project. The approach combines detailed data analyses
with public input to clearly evaluate trade-offs, and inform
solutions and strategies with a focus on balancing all modes
of transportation to achieve community goals within often
limited resources. Our team believes that managing parking
and transportation demand is a critical tool for revitalizing city
centers, providing access to transit, and creating sustainable
places.
The analysis will evaluate the potential traffic and transportation
constraints that will shape the development of the final vision
plan. The initial phase will include a high-level analysis, and as
alternatives are selected, each will undergo a parking analysis
and demand management analysis that will inform the evaluation
criteria and ultimate selection of the preferred alternative. Once
the preferred alternative is selected and the Final Vision Plan is
being developed, Nelson\Nygaard of the SOM Team will develop
final circulation and parking recommendations.
Parking/Loading: The SOM Team will analyze potential impacts to
downtown parking for both on-street parking areas and off-street
parking lots and garages, as well as parking demand, with a focus on
maximizing existing resources while developing innovative parking
and transportation demand strategies and policies, such as tiered
pricing measures and comprehensive code revisions. Our goal is
to balance flexibility to meet market demands while minimizing
impacts on residents and adjacent neighborhoods.
1. Multimodal access, circulation and connectivity analysis
2.Parking analysis and demand management report
3.Circulation and parking recommendations
The overall analysis will include the following elements:
Traffic: The SOM Team will analyze arterial level of service utilizing
daily traffic volumes and estimated travel speeds to understand
current year operations. Future operations will be estimated
using future volumes from the relevant source model. We will also
perform a level of service analysis using the City’s latest traffic
counts.
Transit: The SOM Team will analyze the impact on vehicular traffic
in the current year by utilizing the Highway Capacity Manual
thresholds for level of service and traffic flow. This analysis will
include optimizing access to transit using the most cost-effective
blend of demand and supply measures, such as an evaluation of
dedicated transit lanes.
Safety: The SOM Team will identify high crash locations and
potential contributing factors using crash data processed through
ArcGIS. This will include automobile, bicycle and pedestrian level
data to provide safety for all users.
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TASK 5: ECONOMIC, REAL ESTATE, FISCAL AND
FINANCIAL PLANNING
Through significantly improved accessibility, High Speed Rail
(HSR) has the potential to alter the fundamental economic
dynamics of the City of Bakersfield. The future HSR station will
serve not only as a transit hub, but also a social and economic
focal point for Kern County, catalyzing growth and bringing
vibrancy to the City’s downtown. Bakersfield, driven in part by the
energy/utility sector, already has strong employment in highlypaid Science, Technology, and Knowledge Based industries, and
HSR is an opportunity to attract a diversified set of businesses,
strengthening Bakersfield’s knowledge economy and supporting
job and income growth. Leveraging future economic growth
with strategic investments around the HSR station area could
help revitalize Bakersfield’s downtown, building on increasing
investments in, and national trends toward, urban-style living and
working.
Task 5.1: Downtown Bakersfield Economic Development Strategy
HR&A will prepare a framework for economic development that
allows Bakersfield to understand its future economic potential
and how to maximize this potential with its development assets
and resources to promote sustainable economic development
and create long term value.
5.1.1 Bakersfield Socio-Economic and Employment Profile. HR&A
will undertake a base economic analysis to evaluate the
economic and workforce context of Bakersfield as well as
the County. We will assess the current socio-economic
profile of the City and County, including population,
households, household size, income, education, race and
ethnicity, and age. HR&A will use quadrant analysis to
understand Bakersfield’s competitive position as it relates
to high-growth and high-wage industries and develop a set
of target industries appropriate for downtown Bakersfield.
HR&A will evaluate growh in Bakersfield’s current
population, households and employment in a larger regional
context and consider opportunities for growth with HSR.
5.1.3 HSR Best Practice Case Studies. Using its breadth of national
and international experience, HR&A will identify and explore
up to five appropriate global case studies in which HSR and
transit improvements were used to catalyze economic growth
of a region and revitalize a downtown area. HR&A will distill
from these case studies lessons that are applicable to the
Bakersfield context.
Task 5.2: Real Estate Analysis and Best Practices
HR&A will perform a real estate market analysis to help the City
understand how current market performance and projected growth
can support various elements of the City’s downtown economic
development plan in task 5.1.4. HR&A will prepare a set of strategies
to support the plan and market Bakersfield’s value proposition to
future economic anchors and real estate developers.
5.2.1 Current Real Estate Market Performance. HR&A will collect
and analyze real estate market data from market reports and
proprietary data aggregation services such as CoStar and REIS,
as well as from interviews with local real estate brokers and
developers, to track inventory, rents, occupancy, absorption,
development pipeline, land sale prices, and other inputs for
a variety of real estate product types in Bakersfield and the
regional market, including retail, office, and for-sale and rental
residential, and hospitality uses. The market performance
analysis will indicate Bakersfield’s current strengths and
weaknesses in the regional real estate market.
5.2.2 Market Demand Projections. Based on our experience in transit
oriented development (TOD), HR&A will quantify the scale of
future retail, multi-family residential, office, and hospitality
development that can be supported at the station area. The
demand analysis will estimate potential absorption across a 30
-year period and will integrate expected ridership, enhanced
accessibility to current employment centers and the potential
shifts in the regional economic and demographic base. These
market demand estimates will provide a high and low range of
growth and will provide a market based capacity framework for
the station area plan.
5.1.2 Stakeholder Outreach. HR&A will conduct interviews with
key community stakeholders, City staff, regional economic
development agencies, real estate professionals and key
employers to identify current competitive advantages of
Bakersfield, barriers to economic development and industry
perceptions of the HSR opportunity.
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5.2.3 Economic Development Marketing Strategies. Through our
quantitative analysis described above and the stakeholder
outreach in Task 5.1.2, HR&A will determine the key location
drivers of target industries identified in the Downtown
Bakersfield Economic Development Plan. HR&A will
evaluate market support for various elements of the City’s
downtown economic development plan and identify where
new initiatives/investments may be required to support
further growth, as well as effective strategies Bakersfield
can use to better brand the City and downtown districts
and position Bakersfield to attract new anchor industries,
businesses and real estate development. Similar to HR&A’s
recent work with SANBAG and SCAG, recommendations
may include enhanced capacity in the form of new
institutions and/or expanded scopes for existing
organizations to help brand Bakersfield’s value proposition
and promote growth in the Bakersfield HSR station area.
Task 5.3: Real Estate, Financing and Implementation Strategies
HR&A will evaluate a range of public financing tools to support
real estate development and will explore value capture
opportunities. HR&A will test funding capacity and will evaluate
the fiscal impact to the City of Bakersfield for up to three station
area development scenarios.
5.2.1 Implementation Strategies. To support implementation
goals, HR&A will identify critical success factors that could
drive dynamic growth in the HSR station area, and potential
actions required to overcome current market, infrastructure
or policy barriers that exist. These success factors, paired
with HR&A’s market analysis findings will inform physical
planning around the station area and will support the
development of HSR Station Area scenarios to be analyzed
in Tasks 5.3.3 and 5.3.4. HR&A will collaborate with other
project consultants to develop informed and actionable
strategies addressing phasing, parking and disposition
of public properties. Furthermore, HR&A will advise on
governance and operational mechanisms and capacities
required for successfully implementing a cohesive
development plan over the long-term.
5.2.1 Overview of Public Financing Strategies. HR&A will evaluate
and summarize the potential for a range of public financing
tools to support development around the HSR Station Area
and contribute to the success of economic development
goals developed through Task 5.1.4. Our extensive national
economic development work and particular familiarity
with the public finance landscape in California, enables us
to understand, critique, invent and apply a wide range of
financing tools and techniques used to support economic
development initiatives and organizational operations. For
example, HR&A recently formulated a strategy to deliver
citywide economic development services for the City of Los
Angeles following the State-mandated elimination of its 40
year-old system of redevelopment, and is currently assisting
the Portland Development Corporation in its long term
business plan.
5.2.2 Value Capture Analysis. HR&A will consider value capture
opportunities throughout the HSR station area and in
Downtown Bakersfield. HR&A has worked on value capture
strategies across the nation. For instance, HR&A structured
the creative zoning and the transfer of development rights
that enabled transformative public spaces like the Highline
and the redevelopment of existing transit facilitates like
the Moynihan station in New York. We analyzed and helped
structure pioneering tax subvention packages in the City
of Los Angeles that led to the development of the Wilshire
Grand Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles and development of
the Village at Westfield Topanga shopping center. In a recent
project for San Bernardino cities with Metrolink Stations,
HR&A has been working with communities to consider the
infrastructure financing opportunities available through
the new Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts (EIFD)
and other revenue generation through parking districts and
parking authorities.
Informed by our market analysis work and knowledge of
potential development opportunities in the Bakersfield HSR
station area, HR&A will develop a robust analysis framework
to estimate the expected incremental value of real estate
development of up to three (3) station area development
scenarios. HR&A will explore and quantify the potential
funding capacity available through available tools such as
infrastructure financing districts, special assessment districts,
impact fees, joint development, air rights, transit finance
districts, parking districts and other value capture tools.
HR&A will prioritize and recommend the most appropriate
toolkit for Bakersfield to implement its HSR Station Area Plan.
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5.2.3 Fiscal Impact. Fiscal impact analysis is a critical tool in
guiding public investment decisions. HR&A has extensive
experience preparing detailed fiscal impact analysis using
customized spreadsheet models in order to estimate
location-specific public revenue and service costs
characteristics. HR&A will evaluate the fiscal revenue and
cost impact implications of up to three (3) multi-modal
station area development scenarios on Bakersfield’s
General Fund revenues and costs. Our analysis will estimate
the ongoing net fiscal impacts attributed to the station area
across the next 30 years.
5.2.4 Economic Strategy Recommendations and Downtown
Economic Development Plan. HR&A has over three decades
of experience developing creative strategies to revitalize
downtowns into community-strengthening assets with
measurable economic, physical and job creation goals.
HR&A will work with the multidisciplinary team and City
staff to develop a long term economic development Vision
and Goals for Downtown Bakersfield that reflect market
realities, aspirations, and opportunities presented by
the HSR investment. HR&A will use the socio-economic
analysis, case study research, and input from stakeholders
described above, to formulate an economic
TASK 6: IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY
The SOM Team recognizes that studying and prioritizing station area
alternatives is only the beginning of this project. When our work is
complete, we must understand not only what is needed to leverage
the high speed rail station into long-term economic development
and livability improvements, but how the entire station area will be
designed, constructed, and funded.
Together with all of its team members, SOM will develop
a comprehensive implementation strategy, including an
environmental review. Throughout the planning process, various
projects that either are on-going, underway, or planned might
be able to be rolled into the larger Downtown Station Area Plan.
Using this planning process as a vehicle to systematically review,
consolidate, and incorpoate a strategic approach to implementation
is critical. As this visioning process will lead into a more detailed
specific plan, this project Is an opportunity to focus in on and
leverage the identified needs in Downtown Bakersfield as a means
to reach both goals of this project and the community as a whole in
order to optimize long-term success.
1. Implementation and Next Steps Strategy
2.Infrastructure Needs Analysis
3.Monitoring Program
1. Downtown Bakersfield economic development plan
2.Real estate and market analysis
3.Value capture and fiscal impact analysis
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CEQA Approach
TASK 1
Previous CEQA analysis conducted by the High Speed Rail
Authority (HSRA) included alignments for the Fresno-Bakersfield
segment and ongoing work is being done for the BakersfieldPalmdale segment, in addition to numerous Supplemental EIR
and other analysis that includes portions of the Bakersfield Area
Plan including possible station locations. Thus for this project,
Rincon Consultants will tier the Downtown Bakersfield High
Speed Rail Station Area Plan analysis from the existing CEQA
documents. Through this methodology, the City will benefit from
consistent environmental planning analysis, and the public will
better understand the connection of the Downtown Bakersfield
High Speed Rail Station Area Plan (Area Plan) to the larger HSR
Fresno to Bakersfield and Bakersfield to Palmdale alignment
efforts that will precede it.
Kickoff Meeting: Rincon will attend a kickoff meeting with City
of Bakersfield staff and key members of the Skidmore, Owings
& Merrill LLP (SOM) consultant team. This meeting will serve as
a forum to review and confirm study objectives and establish an
operational protocol. Working schedules will be finalized, and details
for scheduled tasks will be discussed. The consultant team will use
this opportunity to collect any relevant studies and information not
already transmitted.
Taking advantage of the tiering provisions of CEQA, the Area
Plan will be analyzed with its own Supplemental Environmental
Impact Report (SEIR). This enables the program-level mitigation
measures included in the previous HSR EIR/EISs to be either
directly applied or to be modified and expanded to address newlyidentified Area Plan program impacts.
As well, the SEIR will be organized to take advantage of
streamlining provisions of the most recent CEQA legislation,
including those approved by the state as part of SB 375
(Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008)
and SB 743 (2013), which provides for further streamlining
for transit-oriented development projects in certain cases.
Through this programmatic structure, the City should be able to
minimize future environmental review for project applications
within the Downtown Bakersfield High Speed Rail Station
Area Plan area that meet the tenets of the Transit-Oriented
Development (TOD) provisions. Further, this analysis can be
utilized as part of additional review for the larger Downtown
Bakersfield Specific Plan. The SEIR for the Area Plan will focus
primarily on the physical changes to the high speed rail station
area and the potential environmental impacts resulting from
physical improvements and possible land use changes there. As
appropriate, the policies and actions of the City’s General Plan
and new policies from the Downtown Bakersfield High Speed
Rail Station Area Plan will be identified as mitigating factors for
possible impacts. The basic tasks in the environmental review
process are as follows.
TASK 2
Project Description: The Project Description will be submitted within
one week of the receipt of the review-draft Area Plan and receipt of
all relevant descriptive information. Of particular importance will
be the identification of any land use change areas proposed in the
Area Plan, since these have the potential to drive physical changes
to the environment beyond what the previous EIR/EIS analysis and
any supplemental analysis for the Fresno-Bakersfield alignment
anticipated.
TASK 3
Administrative Draft SEIR: Rincon will prepare an internal review or
Administrative Draft SEIR. Rincon will use the City of Bakersfield
format as updated with Appendix G of the CEQA Guidelines.
The Administrative Draft SEIR will address each topic on the
environmental checklist. Existing technical studies and the previous
EIR/EIS analysis for HSR (both the Fresno-Bakersfield segment
and the ongoing Bakersfield-Palmdale analysis) will be used to
the extent possible. As appropriate, impacts will be quantified and
compared to adopted thresholds of significance. Rincon will submit
an electronic copy of the Administrative Draft SEIR to the City in
PDF and/or Word format for review and comment.
TASK 4
Draft SEIR: Rincon will respond to City comments on the
Administrative Draft SEIR and submit paper copies and digital files
optimized for web posting and public noticing. Rincon will oversee
the submittal of the SEIR to the State Clearinghouse and prepare
for posting a Notice of Availability with the County Clerk’s office. We
assume that the City will be responsible for mailing the document to
responsible agencies and for newspaper and other noticing required
under CEQA. Rincon staff is available to manage all of these tasks
as needed.
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TASK 5
Final SEIR: Upon receipt of public comments on the Draft SEIR,
Rincon will prepare responses to comments for City review and
prepare the Administrative Final SEIR. Rincon will also prepare a
Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP), which will
be presented as a table listing all mitigation measures, indicating
what monitoring actions are required, the department(s) and or
agencies responsible for monitoring, and when monitoring is to
occur.
Rincon will prepare the required CEQA Findings of Fact. Any
impacts identified during the SEIR process shall be identified
as significant or insignificant pursuant to the criteria of CEQA
and the State CEQA Guidelines. Indirect or secondary impacts
of the project shall also be discussed and mitigation measures
recommended. Mitigation measures should be described in
detail and should be specific to the project. If it is determined
that Significant and Unavoidable Impacts related to the project
would occur as part of the CEQA document, Rincon will draft
a Statement of Overriding Considerations for City staff to
review prior to the public hearings. The Statement of Overriding
Considerations will be included as part of the Final CEQA Findings
that will be reviewed by the City Council along with the Final SEIR.
TASK 6
Public Hearings: Rincon’s principal-in-charge and/or project
manager will attend up to three public hearings on the project.
Attendance will include oral presentations to the hearing body
and graphic presentations, if desired. These hearings can be
scheduled and selected at the City’s discretion. Rincon will attend
additional hearings on a time-and-materials basis, in accordance
with our standard fee schedule.
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PHASE I - EXISTING CONDITIONS
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Infrastructure
Land Use
Multimodal Connectivity Analysis and Report
Real Estate Market Analysis
PHASE II - ALTERNATIVES
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Parking Analysis and Demand Management Report
Value Capture and Fiscal Impact Analysis
Draft Scenarios
PHASE III - PREFER ALTERNATE
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Circulation and Parking Recommendations
Downtown Economic Development Plan
Final Vision Plan
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PHASE IV - IMPLEMENTATION
Next Steps
Infrastructure Needs Analysis
Monitoring Program
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FLEX TIME / APPROVAL PROCESS
CEQA
Monthly Stakeholder Committee Meeting
Notes:
Monthly Technical Committee Meeting
Start date may adjust based on the City of Bakersfield’s issuance of a notice to proceed.
The timing of this notice may impact the public engagement schedule as hosting a
public meeting during the holiday season (November-December) is not advisable.
Milestones
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3. COST OF SERVICES
Based on our understanding of the tasks required to
successfully complete a High Speed Rail Station Area
Plan in Downtown Bakersfield, including those tasks
included in this RFP to meet all CEQA requirements,
we submit the following budget:
$750,000 (including expenses)
Of this proposed budget, the approximate percentage
of each of SOM Team member’s contribution to the
project is the following:
SOM40%
Nelson\Nygaard18%
HR&A Advisors17%
Rincon
Consultants10%
Arellano Associates13%
Place It! 2%
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3. COST OF SERVICES
FEE SCHEDULE - STANDARD BILLING RATES
SOM Technical Personnel
Group A U.S. $100/hour
Group B U.S. $115/hour
Group C U.S. $150/hour
Group D U.S. $160/hour
Group E U.S. $190/hour
Group F U.S. $220/hour
Associate U.S. $230/hour
Associate Director U.S. $280/hour
Partner and Director U.S. $405/hour
Technical Employees are assigned groups based on their
education, experience, and responsibilities.
The hourly billing rates listed herein shall be in effect through
October 31, 2017 and may be amended annually.
Nelson/Nygaard Technical Personnel
Principal VII U.S. $270/hour
Principal III U.S. $195/hour
Associate IV U.S. $130/hour
Rincon Consultants Inc. Professional, Technical,
and Support Personnel
Principal IIU.S. $215/hour
Principal IU.S. $195/hour
Senior Supervisor IIU.S. $175/hour
Supervisor IU.S. $165/hour
Senior Professional IIU.S. $145/hour
Senior Professional IU.S. $135/hour
Professional IVU.S. $120/hour
Professional IIIU.S. $110/hour
Professional IIU.S. $95/hour
Professional IU.S. $85/hour
Environmental TechnicianU.S. $75/hour
/Field Aide
Senior GIS SpecialistU.S. $115/hour
GIS/CADD Specialist IIU.S. $100/hour
GIS/CADD Specialist IU.S. $90/hour
Graphic DesignerU.S. $85/hour
Technical EditorU.S. $95/hour
Clerical/AdministrativeU.S. $75/hour
Assistant II
Clerical/Administrative U.S. $65/hour
Assistant I
Professionals include environmental scientists, urban planners,
biologists, geologists, and cultural resources experts
HR&A Advisors Personnel
Arellano Associates Personnel
PartnerU.S. $351/hour
Principal
U.S. $293/hour
Analyst U.S. $124/hour
Research AnalystU.S. $102/hour
Project Director U.S. $228.37/hour
Project Manager U.S. $111.65/hour
Senior Project Coordinator U.S. $111.65/hour
Senior Project CoordinatorU.S. $89.32/hour
Assistant Project Coordinator U.S. $36.54/hour
* Fully burdened, including overhead and profit.
Place It! Personnel
Project Manager U.S. $100/hour
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3. COST OF SERVICES
SOM REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES
Type of Media
Client Fee
Xerox Bond$1.00 / SF
Color Bond$5.07 / SF
Color Glossy$6.00 / SF
Black & White Bond/Vellum$1.25 / SF
Color Film$4.00 / SF
PostageBy Weight
Federal ExpressBy Weight
Phone/Conference CallsLong Distance @ AT&T Rates
Fax$1.00/Page
Copy/Xerox$.10/Page
Videoconferences:
Up to 4 “face-to face” participants$300.00 / hour
Each additional “face-to-face” participant $90.00 / hour
On-line Digital Web collaboration$. 30 / minute / connection
3D Modeling Printer$18.00/cu. inch
The charges listed herein shall be in effect through September 30,
2017 and may be amended annually thereafter.
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3. COST OF SERVICES
PAYMENT SCHEDULE
PROJECT TASKS
TASK I
CEQA AND APPROVAL PROCESS
2015
2016
2017
0
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2
3
4
5
6
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8
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OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEPT
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAN
FEB
MAR
4 WEEKS
1.1 Work Planning Team
1.2 Project Kick-Off Meeting
1.3 Project Work Plan
TASK II
8 WEEKS
2.1 Community Outreach Strategy
2.2 Stakeholder Committee
2.3 Technical Committee
TASK III
40 WEEKS
3.1 Vision Statement
3.2 Existing Conditions
3.3 Draft Scenarios
3.4 Final Vision Plan
TASK IV
40 WEEKS
4.1 Multimodal Connectivity Analysis and Report
4.2 Parking Analysis and Demand Management Report
4.3 Circulation and Parking Recommendations
TASK V
40 WEEKS
5.2 Real Estate Market Analysis
5.3 Value Capture and Fiscal Impact Analysis
5.1 Downtown Economic Development Plan
TASK VI
32 WEEKS
6.1 Implementation Strategy
6.2 Infrastructure Needs Analysis
6.3 Monitoring Program
Milestones
Notes:
SOM will track project completion on a percentage basis for each task. Monthly team
invoices will include percent complete for each task.
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4. INDEMNIFICATION AND INSURANCE
SOM holds an insurance policy that is in accordance
with the requirements of the RFP and the terms of the
agreement as follows:
1. Professional liability insurance, providing claims basis for errors and omissions with limits not less than One Million Dollars per claim;
2.Automobile liability insurance, providing coverage on an occurrence basis for bodily injury, including death, of one or more persons, property damage and personal injury, with limits of not less than One Million Dollar per occurrence;
3.Broad form commercial general liability insurance, providing coverage on an occurrence basis for bodily injury,
including death, of one or more persons, property damage and personal injury, with limits of not less than One Million
Dollars per occurrence; and,
4.Worker’ compensation insurance with statutory limits and employer’s liability insurance with limits of not less than One Million Dollars per accident.
Professional Services Agreement
If successful, in award of this very important project, SOM
would welcome a mutual discussion on modifications to the
agreement provided to make the terms insurable, including but
not limited to: the removal of the defense and proportionality in
the indemnity, discussion on scope, clarification on the impact of
any Cooperation Agreement, the ability to rely upon information
provided to us and additional terms regarding apportioning of risk
and liability.
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5. CURRENT VOLUME OF WORK
Our project team is ready to begin work immediately
on your project, and none of our projects currently
underway will affect our ability to undertake this
work. All of the resources of our firm are available for
the project as necessary. We have a deep bench of
multi-discipline design professionals to draw upon:
SOM has 60 professionals in Los Angeles and 1167
worldwide. The staff requirements will vary over the
course of the project, and each individual’s time will
vary accordingly. At certain times this involvement will
exceed 100% of a known workweek. That is the nature
of our profession.
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6. CONFLICT OF INTEREST
SOM if retained under agreement to perform the
Downtown Bakersfield High Speed Rail Station Area
Plan will not contract for services on any project
within the incorporated City of Bakersfield without
first receiving written consent from the Planning
Director that the requested contract for services is not
inconsistent, incompatible, in conflict with, or contrary
to the performance of the project, which consent will
not be unreasonable withheld.
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Exhibit B - 1 - City of Bakersfield

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