The City of Memphis seeks to retain the services of a team of consultants to assist its Office of Comprehensive Planning (OCP) from July 2017 through December 2018, with primary involvement in a 15-month district-scale process planned to begin October 2017. Firms must possess experience in land use planning, urban design, architecture, and/or landscape design.

Selected firms will be tasked with leading the development of Community Character manuals — or community plans — for each of the City's 14 Planning Districts. The selected team will assist OCP on development of land use classifications or place types, development of a document template for community character manuals that considers connections between land use classifications or place types, the Unified Development Code (UDC), and Complete Streets Project Delivery Manual, application of land use classifications or place types in 14 districts of the city, development of community character manuals in 14 districts of the city, and developing design based solutions to create, improve, or integrate civic assets to propose for city CIP funding or other infrastructure funding programs.

For additional information, please refer to the full RFQ posted on the City's website: http://www.memphistn.gov/Portals/0/pdf_forms/RFQ-28432-LAND-USE-PLANNING-DESIGN-ASSISTANCE-FOR-THE-MEMPHIS-3-0-COMPREHENSIVE-PLAN.pdf