City-Wide Form-Based Cambridge Development Code RFQ

The City of Cambridge, Maryland is issuing a REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) for a team to draft a NEW, CITY-WIDE, TRANSECT-ORIENTED, FORM BASED, CAMBRIDGE DEVELOPMENT CODE. We are seeking an accomplished, professional planning firm to assist City Staff with the following tasks:A. The creation of a NEW FORM-BASED CODE to replace the CITY'S UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE. This existing code was adopted on DECEMBER 8, 2014, and utilized for the first time on JANUARY 1, 2015.B. The City will provide funding appropriate to the scope and needs of the project.C. Each team submitting a response to this RFQ shall convey a breakdown of their INDIVIDUAL COSTS, as well as their anticipated OVERALL COSTS for the project.D. The RFQ IS OPEN UNTIL: DECEMBER 01, 2026, AT 3:00 PM. EASTERN STANDARD TIME.This new code is much needed and will promote the tenants of NEW URBANISM, a planning and development approach that uses many of the same components as conventional planning but assembles them in a more integrated fashion to ensure walkable blocks and streets, mixed-use housing, shopping in close proximity, and accessible public spaces; the way that communities have been built for centuries around the world.This new code will implement the City's recently completed INSPIRE CAMBRIDGE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN; which utilizes a new urbanist approach to issues. The Comprehensive Plan's Future Land Use Map establishes seven districts: (1) Downtown, (2) Traditional Neighborhood, (3) Suburban Neighborhood, (4) Highway, (5) Industrial, (6) Natural, and (7) Special Overlay. The Downtown, Traditional Neighborhood, and Special Overlay districts promote walkable urbanism, while the others are more auto-centric in nature. Two mixed-use nodes of varying intensity and scale are found within these districts. Known as NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS & NEIGHBORHOOD CROSSROADS, these areas promote mixed-use, walkable urbanism.
Category: Professional procurement services
Additional Instructions: REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION REGARDING THE RFQ1. Requests for information by firm(s) regarding the meaning or interpretation of terms or requirements in this RFQ must be submitted to the Planning and Zoning Director, Brian Herrmann via email:contact@example.gov LINE SHALL STATE: "(Firm Name), RFQ for CDC inquiry"2. Please submit questions no later than 5:00 P.M. on NOVEMBER 4, 2026.3. Questions/responses will be posted on the City's website on NOVEMBER 10, 2026, at: Cambridge, MD | Official Website4. From the date of release of this RFQ until the contract has been awarded, NO contact with other City personnel or City officials is permitted, EXCEPT as authorized by the contact person. Any such unauthorized contact will result in the disqualification of the firm’s submittalA. RFQ SUBMITTALS SHOULD EITHER BE MAILED TO OR DROPPED OFF AT THE ADDRESS LISTED BELOW:Brian Herrmann; CNU-a, LEED ap.Director of Planning and ZoningPublic Works Building1025 Washington StreetCambridge, Maryland 21613