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The City of Twinsburg is seeking proposals from qualified and experienced planning consultants to prepare a comprehensive update of the City’s Zoning and Development Regulations (Zoning Code). The current Zoning Code has seen many and varied additions and revisions since 1989, but these updates haven’t established a Zoning Code framework that supports a more user-friendly, modern and unambiguous document.
Project purpose and background The City seeks a comprehensive update to its Zoning Code that is rooted in a vision for a dynamic central area, supports business development, increases the potential for sustainability and maintains an emphasis on a small-town quality of life. The City anticipates the update process to include extensive public outreach with a focus on performance standards, permitted and accessory uses and internal processes related to development applications. A Consultant that recognizes the importance of public outreach is highly desired. The City is envisioning an up-to-date Zoning Code that is supported by the Twinsburg community.
Status Report - May 2, 2023
The following monthly status report is provided per Task 1.3 of the contract between the City of Twinsburg and ZoneCo, regarding the Twinsburg zoning code rewrite.
Summary
• Met with staff (virtually) on 4/4/2023 to discuss and edit draft diagnostic benchmarks • Facilitated the project kick-off in-person; touring Twinsburg, meeting staff, meeting with the Working Group and subconsultant, OHM on 4/12/2023 (Task 1.2) • Coordinated public engagement strategy draft with OHM (Task 1.4) • Reviewed existing planning documents in preparation for the Diagnostic Report (Task 1.7) • Coordinated a Diagnostic Report explanatory document to follow up with the Working Group (preparation for Task 1.7)
Project Update - January 17, 2023
Request for proposals were due December 5th, 2022.
Six consultants submitted with price points ranging between $100,000 to $157,000 for this 18-month project.
Proposals were reviewed by a selection committee with three of the six consultants being offered a virtual interview.
After all three interviews were completed, the selection committee agreed unanimously on a top consultant and would like to move forward with awarding them the contract.
If Council approves this allocation of funds, next step will be to have them vote on official legislation at the Jan 24th meeting and the consultant would begin work immediately thereafter.
The City of Twinsburg is seeking proposals from qualified and experienced planning consultants to prepare a comprehensive update of the City’s Zoning and Development Regulations (Zoning Code). The current Zoning Code has seen many and varied additions and revisions since 1989, but these updates haven’t established a Zoning Code framework that supports a more user-friendly, modern and unambiguous document.
Project purpose and background The City seeks a comprehensive update to its Zoning Code that is rooted in a vision for a dynamic central area, supports business development, increases the potential for sustainability and maintains an emphasis on a small-town quality of life. The City anticipates the update process to include extensive public outreach with a focus on performance standards, permitted and accessory uses and internal processes related to development applications. A Consultant that recognizes the importance of public outreach is highly desired. The City is envisioning an up-to-date Zoning Code that is supported by the Twinsburg community.
Status Report - May 2, 2023
The following monthly status report is provided per Task 1.3 of the contract between the City of Twinsburg and ZoneCo, regarding the Twinsburg zoning code rewrite.
Summary
• Met with staff (virtually) on 4/4/2023 to discuss and edit draft diagnostic benchmarks • Facilitated the project kick-off in-person; touring Twinsburg, meeting staff, meeting with the Working Group and subconsultant, OHM on 4/12/2023 (Task 1.2) • Coordinated public engagement strategy draft with OHM (Task 1.4) • Reviewed existing planning documents in preparation for the Diagnostic Report (Task 1.7) • Coordinated a Diagnostic Report explanatory document to follow up with the Working Group (preparation for Task 1.7)
Project Update - January 17, 2023
Request for proposals were due December 5th, 2022.
Six consultants submitted with price points ranging between $100,000 to $157,000 for this 18-month project.
Proposals were reviewed by a selection committee with three of the six consultants being offered a virtual interview.
After all three interviews were completed, the selection committee agreed unanimously on a top consultant and would like to move forward with awarding them the contract.
If Council approves this allocation of funds, next step will be to have them vote on official legislation at the Jan 24th meeting and the consultant would begin work immediately thereafter.
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Where do I find a copy of the 2021 comp plan?
Mailmeyers
asked
15 days ago
Click here to access the 2021 Comprehensive Plan Update on MyTwinsburg.com.
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I did see the survey that was posted on line. I have 4 neighbors that do not have computers. How is the city going to reach the seniors since they are 31% of are community?
Resident
asked
about 1 month ago
OHM Advisors, part of the Code Twinsburg update consulting team, is in process of developing a public outreach and engagement strategy specific to the Twinsburg community. Paper surveys will be made available at key city locations.
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Can we please look into why the clerk of council did not have the bid when residents were asking for it?
Resident
asked
about 1 month ago
The RFP required proposals to be submitted directly to the Economic Development Director. Seven proposals were received and were distributed to the proposal review team. The proposals were not provided to the Clerk of Council. The contract resulting from the review team decision was provided to the Clerk.
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Who will be on this driving tour of Twinsburg?
Resident
asked
about 1 month ago
The driving tour was conducted by Rebecca Zeigler, Economic Development Director, Lynn Muter, City Planner and Christopher Myers, ZoneCo Project Manager.
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Can we get the procedures of how Zone Code will compare and score our current code? Can I get a copy of the Comprehensive plan they will be using. Will it be the 2014 or the 2021?
Resident
asked
about 1 month ago
The process of evaluating the current code against adopted planning documents will consider both the 2014 and the 2021 plans. These Plans are available at mytwinsburg.com in the document center in the planning division file. The full 2014 Plan and the executive summary are both posted. The 2021 Plan is posted and references the 2014 goals and objectives in Appendix A. The Connecting Communities trail plan is also posted at this location. A Diagnostic Report will be provided as indicated on page 16 of the ZoneCo proposal. The resulting information will be posted on the Together Twinsburg project page.
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How is the Tax Increment District going to affect our schools with their current situation of precautionary fiscal watch? Has the city had a meeting with the school? How will this work with the Township and Reminderville?
Resident
asked
about 1 month ago
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is an economic development tool available to local governments in Ohio for financing public infrastructure improvements. A TIF District is typically defined by a potential redevelopment area that is currently providing reduced tax distributions because of underutilized and/or vacant properties. Portions of the Twinsburg central area fall into this category of vacancy,
underutilization and resulting limited tax benefit to the City schools. It is anticipated that development within a central area TIF district will increase the property tax base in the District and will also provide stimulus for additional economic activity and development in the larger central area. Specific TIF legislation has not been developed for a Twinsburg location and consequently there has been no meeting to date with the School District regarding this issue. The Twinsburg City Schools and the City of Twinsburg continue to partner on tax abatement programs and the City schools have continued representation on the CIC Board and Tax Incentive Review Commission. A complete understanding of measures associated with the precautionary fiscal watch should be pursued through appropriate school district channels.
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Pattern Districting is not discussed in our zoning code, this is very close to spot zoning? Can the Law Director explain the differences?
Resident
asked
about 1 month ago
This response has been provided by the City Planner with confirmation by the ZoneCo project manager regarding the terminology “development pattern districting” found in the Twinsburg proposal related to case studies provided in the document.
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What is the Advance Twinsburg 2040 Plan? How do we get a copy of the 2040 plan? Page3
Resident
asked
about 1 month ago
This is a typo in the proposal and should read the Twinsburg 2014 Plan. The adopted City Plans are found on the document center page, in the planning division file, at mytwinsburg.com
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Question from a resident during the council meeting on 4.25.2023 - please define who the ‘stakeholders’ referenced in the Zoneco contract.
Greg Bellan
asked
about 1 month ago
Page 18, item (c) Review and test Calibration table internally with staff and then test with “residents and other stakeholders at two public forums”.
The referenced narrative (p.18) explains the process for testing the calibration table once it has been developed by ZoneCo. Stakeholders in this sentence means residents and also non-resident persons with interest in or concern with proposed updates to the Twinsburg Zoning Code. Other stakeholders in this scenario could be non-resident property or business owners for example. Community stakeholders are generally defined as people, groups, organizations or businesses that have interest or concern in the community. Stakeholders can affect or be affected by the community’s actions, objectives and policies. Stakeholders will be different for every community and will differ relative to various issues or concerns. This is a very common terminology used in association with the public planning a zoning process. *Regarding the 10-person stakeholder item noted in the proposal timeline: this can be a specific focus group or an additional working group activity. This choice will be made by the City. The 10-person stakeholder focus group is essentially a placeholder in the timeline and fee schedule if a need for this type of outreach is identified.
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Zoning Code Discussion at the October 11, 2022 Caucus Meeting
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Introduction of Zoning Code Update project to Council
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1st reading of Ordinance 08-2023, authorizing the mayor to enter into a contract with Zone Co. to facilitate a comprehensive update to the city’s planning and zoning code.
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