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Birmingham planning board refines scope for zoning-ordinance RFP, targets Aug. 13 review
Summary
The planning board agreed to extract zoning-related actions from the 2040 master plan into a working matrix and to narrow the RFP scope before posting, with staff to return a refined draft and selection-process guidance ahead of an August 13 meeting. A resident urged removal of a proposed rezoning along 14 Mile Road.
The Birmingham City Planning Board on July 9 began narrowing the scope of a forthcoming request for proposals (RFP) to update the city’s zoning ordinance and set a target to review a refined draft on Aug. 13.
Planning staffer Nick Dupuy told the board the RFP draft could not be posted yet because it still requires review by the city manager and the city attorney; he said he had compared the city’s draft with Ferndale’s RFP and the planning department’s prior master-plan RFP and recommended the board focus on five consequential RFP sections: the introduction, scope, submission requirements, evaluation criteria and timeline/deliverables. “I basically served you up a big juicy nothing burger,” Dupuy said, adding the body text of those sections is still malleable and that…
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