Maryland Procurement Portal #BPM059552

Planning services for Cambridge’s city-wide form-based development code

The City of Cambridge, Maryland, is seeking a professional planning team to help create a city-wide, form-based development code. - Buyer: City of Cambridge, Maryland — Planning and Zoning function. - Requested services: Assist City staff in drafting a new transect-oriented, form-based Cambridge Development Code to replace the Unified Development Code and implement the Inspire Cambridge Comprehensive Plan. - Planning framework: The code is intended to support New Urbanism, including walkable streets and blocks, mixed-use housing, nearby shopping, and accessible public spaces. The plan identifies Downtown, Traditional Neighborhood, Suburban Neighborhood, Highway, Industrial, Natural, and Special Overlay districts, along with Neighborhood Centers and Neighborhood Crossroads as walkable mixed-use nodes. - Cost information: Responding teams must provide costs for individual work components and the anticipated overall project cost. - OEMs and vendors: No OEMs, prospective vendor firms, products, part numbers, or quantities are named in the notice. - Notable requirement: The selected team will work with City staff on a city-wide code intended to guide development across the identified districts and mixed-use nodes.

Description

The City of Cambridge seeks qualifications from a professional planning firm or team to help City staff draft a new city-wide, transect-oriented, form-based Cambridge Development Code to replace the Unified Development Code. The new code is intended to implement the Inspire Cambridge Comprehensive Plan and advance New Urbanism, including walkable blocks and streets, mixed-use housing, nearby shopping, and accessible public spaces. The City will provide funding appropriate to the project’s scope and needs, and each responding team must provide a breakdown of individual costs and anticipated overall project costs. Responses are due December 1, 2026, at 3:00 PM EST and must be submitted by mail or drop-off to Brian Herrmann at the Public Works Building in Cambridge, Maryland.

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