Palos Verdes Estates Planet bids #147793

Planning consulting for Rancho Palos Verdes’ 7th Cycle Housing Element

The City of Rancho Palos Verdes is seeking a planning consultant to prepare its 7th Cycle Housing Element and support environmental review, public engagement, and state certification. - Government buyer: City of Rancho Palos Verdes, Community Development Department, California. - OEMs and vendors: No OEMs, product vendors, or consulting firms are named in the provided materials. California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is the reviewing and certifying state agency. - Requested service: One integrated planning-consulting engagement for the 2029–2037 Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) cycle. No product purchases, product part numbers, or product quantities are specified. - Update housing needs, constraints, and resources assessments; the Housing Plan; the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing assessment; and the Housing Element Sites Inventory, including parcel-level and site-capacity analysis and a rezoning strategy if needed. - Conduct environmental review and public engagement; coordinate with City staff, stakeholders, and HCD; and support adoption hearings, responses to HCD comments, and certification. - Provide draft and final documents, GIS and Excel sites files, memos, presentations, and reports. Related General Plan updates or studies may also be included as needed. - Notable requirement: Work must support compliance with California housing laws and HCD review and certification. The stated project schedule assumption is 18 months. - Potential competing providers: PlaceWorks, Inc.; Ascent Environmental, Inc.; Dudek; and Raimi + Associates are firms that provide related planning or environmental consulting services.

Description

The City of Rancho Palos Verdes is seeking proposals from qualified planning consultants to prepare its 7th Cycle Housing Element for the 2029–2037 Regional Housing Needs Allocation cycle. Work includes related environmental review and public engagement, updating required housing assessments and plans, and coordinating with City staff and stakeholders to support compliance with State requirements and HCD certification. The consultant may also assist with related updates to other General Plan elements as required. Proposals are due December 14, 2026 at 12:00 p.m.

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