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6.1.1. - Page 1 RE PO RT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the Cit Mana er February 11, 2013 SUBJECT Agreement with Moore, lacofano and Goltsman (MIG) for On-Call Environmental Consulting Services for Projects within the Downtown Precise Plan RECOMMENDATION By motion, approve, and authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement allowing for individual project applications to be reviewed on a time and materials basis for consistency with the Downtown Precise Plan EIR, during the 2013 calendar year, with a cost not to exceed $100,000. BACKGROUND The City Council adopted the Downtown Precise Plan (DTPP) and associated Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on January 24, 2011, with minor amendments approved on September 10, 2012. Since the adoption of the DTPP the City has received multiple development proposals. Review of these development proposals can be generally characterized into two main components; 1) consistency with the standards and guidelines of the DTPP, and 2) consistency with the environmental analysis and implementation of mitigation measures identified in the EIR. ANALYSIS In an effort to keep pace with market conditions and to help streamline the entitlement process staff recommends an on-call contract with MIG (Attachment 1). City staff would be responsible for the review of downtown development proposals for consistency with the DTPP and any other development requirements, while MIG would provide a review of the development proposal to determine consistency with the environmental analysis prepared for the DTPP. MIG is particularly well suited for this task as they were the authors for the DTPP EIR. Furthermore, MIG has recently acquired Hogle Ireland, the consultant team responsible for the preparation of the General Plan. The agreement enables staff to forward pertinent proposed development materials to MIG for concurrent review. The agreement would be in place for the remainder of the 2013 calendar year, and would be revaluated at that time to determine the effectiveness of this process. Although each project would be reviewed on a time and materials basis, which is to be paid for out of the applicants cost recovery deposit, the agreement amount would be capped at $100,000. Should development demands exceed expectations and this amount, staff would return with an amendment request.