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Planning and Building Department, Planning Services Division, Long Range Planning Unit, recommending the Board approve and authorize the Chair to sign Amendment 2 to competitively bid Agreement 5912 with Mintier Harnish to assist with creating new Commercial, Mixed-Use, and Multi-Family Residential Design Standards and Guidelines for the County’s Community Regions and Rural Centers, increasing the total budget by $400,630.84 with a new not-to-exceed amount of $707,245.84, updating the scope of work, and extending the term of the agreement by 3 years with a new expiration date of August 1, 2028. (Cont. 4/8/2025, Item 20)
FUNDING: Community Benefit Fee 31%, Affordable Housing Trust Fund 15%, General Fund 54%.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Under the original contract, work began on the project in February 2022, including portions of original Component 1 (Shingle Springs Community Design Standards). In late 2022, however, the state enacted legislation (Assembly Bill 2011 and Senate Bill 6) to allow qualifying multifamily housing projects on all commercial-zoned parcels and qualifying housing projects must now be allowed as a ministerial (“by-right”) use with no local design oversight unless a local agency has adopted objective design standards applying to such projects. As a result of the changes to state law, the County and Consultant evaluated the completed work and determined that some of the work had to be redone.
On July 23, 2024 (Legistar file 24-1158), the Board directed staff to use in-house staffing resources to develop Countywide interim objective design standards for new commercial, mixed use, and multifamily residential projects for adoption in December 2024. The Board also directed staff to revise the contract and amend the corresponding scope of work to have Consultant build on and customize the County’s adopted Countywide interim design standards into new permanent design standards for the County’s Community Regions and Rural Centers after adopt...
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