The City of Fitchburg seeks a multidisciplinary consultant team to update its Comprehensive Plan. The most desirable consultant will possess a substantial portfolio of comprehensive plans, a complete understanding of the Wisconsin State Statutes related to comprehensive planning, a proven track record of innovative planning ideas, proven consensus building skills and necessary staffing to complete this update. The City is concurrently releasing an RFP to rewrite the City's zoning and sign code. Consultants are welcomed and encouraged to respond to both RFPs and the City will consider any cost efficiencies of selecting the same consultant for both projects. The City expects that the zoning and sign code rewrite will commence as the comprehensive plan update concludes.

The comprehensive plan update will:

• Conduct inclusive engagement with deliberate strategies to engage underserved communities, including Spanish language access, location accessibility, rural/agriculture focused engagement, and various times of day.
• Establish a community vision.
• Re-evaluate Future Urban Development Areas (FUDAs) via multiple growth scenarios/scenario planning.
• Evaluate farmland preservation and rural issues and priorities
• Incorporate existing plans.
• Develop implementation strategies.
• Produce an accessible, language-inclusive, and user-friendly interactive web plan and printable plan.