RFP: Comprehensive Plan For the Town of Charleston. NY

The Town of Charleston, NY is requesting proposals from qualified planning consultants to assist in the development of the community’s first Comprehensive Plan to address current conditions and future sustainable growth within the township. The project is being funded by a 2023 Smart Growth Comprehensive Plan Contract T1002333 Grant from New York State Department of State. New York State Department of State Grant amount is $36,000 and Town of Charleston contribution amount is $4000 totaling $40,000

Release Date: March 4, 2024

Proposal Due: May 15, 2024

The Town of Charleston (Contractor) and its Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee (hereinafter CPSC) will prepare a Comprehensive Plan pursuant to General City Law 28 /Town Law 272-a / Village Law 7-722. This Comprehensive Plan will establish the objectives that our community wants to achieve and will guide future sustainable growth within the Town of Charleston. The selected planning consultant will work closely with the Steering Committee to develop the Comprehensive Plan through a public process that will engage a variety of community stake holders. Charleston’s Comprehensive Plan needs to respond to short term and long-term needs of the community, establish the objectives that Charleston wants to achieve, guide future sustainable growth, enhance quality of life and protect natural and cultural local resources.

The Comprehensive Plan must address the following general Smart Growth Principles, in addition to elements suggested by the New York State statutes:

· Promote mixed land uses in focus areas.

· Create an adequate range of housing opportunities and choice.

· Promote development and redevelopment where infrastructure is adequate and sustainable.

· Build on traits that make a distinctive and attractive community with a strong sense of place.

· Promote well-planned and well-placed public spaces.

· Promote sustainable compact neighborhoods.

· Increase mobility and circulation within jurisdictional lines and improve connectivity with areas outside jurisdictional lines.

· Promote sustainable mass transit that reduces the local levels of greenhouse gas emissions.

· Promote walk-able/bike-able neighborhood designs.

· Promote and integrate clean energy resources and related incentives.

· Improve green infrastructure and resident’s participation to this effort.

· Increase resiliency to extreme weather events.

· Encourage social diversity and integration.

· Expand planning and implementation efforts across jurisdictional lines, to increase effectiveness, sustainability and resiliency.

Promote community and stakeholder collaboration in planning

The Contractor will use the funding/grant for consultant services necessary for the coordination of the planning process and preparation of the Comprehensive Plan.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Interested respondents must submit three (3) paper copies and one (1) electronic version (USB flash drive) of their proposal no later than 12:00 P.M. on May 15, 2024. Proposals should be submitted to:

Town of Charleston – Town Hall

480 Corbin Hill Road

Charleston, NY 12066

Attention: Supervisor Robert Sullivan

Email charlestonsupervisor1@gmail.com

If you have further questions contact Jim Capron at 1-518-698-3502.

Proposals received after the scheduled time and date will not be accepted. Facsimile and email proposals will not be accepted.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Town of Charleston – Town Hall

480 Corbin Hill Road

Charleston, NY 12066

Attention: Supervisor Robert Sullivan