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OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CONTRACT ID NO. 2259 Pre-Qualifi cations for Transportation Alternative Services: Preliminary Engineering, PS&E JULY 15, 2020 Keith R. Franklin, ASLA, RLA LandPlan Consultants, Inc. 1110 West 23rd Street Tulsa, OK 74107 (918) 584-6464 www.lpci.com July 15, 2020 Matt VanAuken Oklahoma Department of Transportation 200 N.E. 21st Street Oklahoma City, OK 73105-3204 RE: Solicitation of Interest Engineering Contract No. 2259 Preliminary Engineering, Preparation of Construction Plans (Pre-Qualifi cations for Transportation Alternatives Program Services) Dear Matt: LandPlan Consultants, Inc. is pleased to submit our qualifi cations for ODOT Engineering Contract No. 2259 Pre-Qualifi cation for Transportation Alternative Services for Preliminary Engineering and Preparation of Construction Plans. We have reviewed your request for LOI/SOQ for professional consulting services and know LPCI can assemble a great team for TA projects. We have recent and practical knowledge dealing with the specifi c challenges of creating fi nal plans and studies similar to your upcoming TA projects. As a local Tulsa landscape architecture fi rm, we want to promote and build upon the recommendations of these projects to pragmatically enhance the function and aesthetic value for future TA implementation in relation to safe routes to school, ADA pedestrian safety, streetscapes, sidewalk design, scenic lookouts, rails to trails, on and off road multi-modal and recreational trail design, historic preservation and rehabilitation of transportation facilities, and right-of-way planting. There are many layers which LandPlan can add value to these future projects; from anticipating long-term needs, cost, and maintenance to providing safety improvements, supporting amenities, and balancing ADA components. Our team is committed to fully support the recommendations of ODOT while weighing priorities to provide long-term solutions, address site challenges, and enhance user experience. Please consider LandPlan for the prime consultant on eligible activities relating to trails, streetscapes, sidewalks, right-of-way planning, and scenic turnout design. Our experience spans many years of successful plans and constructed projects that include streetscapes, multi-use trails, mitigation planting, and overlooks. LandPlan has recently designed trails for the Bike/Pedestrian portion of ODOT’s I-244 Arkansas River Multi-Modal Bridge, the George Kaiser Family Foundation, River Parks Authority, the City of Tulsa all along the Arkansas River, the City of Tulsa’s Midland Valley Trail, Northeastern State University’s Campus Trail in Broken Arrow, Claremore Trails and Bikeways, Muskogee Centennial Trail, several trails for Quartz Mountain in SW Oklahoma, as well as the Osage Prairie Trail. Recent notable byway, streetscape, and pedestrian designs like Oak Creek Overlook, Weatherford’s Revitalization, and Standing Bear incorporate traffi c calming solutions, ADA pedestrian safety improvements, and lighting. LandPlan has extensive experience in working with ODOT on Transportation Alternate/Enhancement projects. Since ISTEA was established, LandPlan has completed no less than 67 successful ODOT TA projects in Oklahoma communities. These projects include trail and streetscape projects in 30 communities across the state. We are confi dent that our knowledgeable experience in planning and designing these types of projects matches the interests for the EC 2259 and Oklahoma Department of Transportation. We encourage you to contact our current and former clients to inquire about our work. Thank you for your consideration of our team. Sincerely, Keith R. Franklin President LandPlan Consultants, Inc. TULSA, OKLAHOMA Planning, Design, and Implementation of Plans Our team has worked with architects, engineers, developers, environmental consultants, public agencies and other interested parties to develop designs which meet the client’s program. Planning is a process of both discovery and design. We interview clients and steering committees to determine their needs, wants and desires, and establish the project program. The second part of the discovery process is the site assessment where we look at the land to determine its opportunities and constraints. We also look at the federal, state and local land-use regulations for any other pertinent requirements or regulations which might stablished in 1983 by Keith Franklin, LandPlan Consultants, Inc. govern the project. Working to understand objectives, policies E(LPCI) is a professional design fi rm focusing on the areas of and actions will be a vital part of the form and function of the master planning, site planning, and landscape architecture. Our transportation alternative projects. We are very familiar with mission is to provide communities, institutions and public agencies with project regulations whether it is ODEQ, ODOT, the Army Corp innovative planning and design services on projects which improve of Engineers, or other entities. We’ve also had the privilege the quality of life. In the last 37 years LPCI has become a regional of working on sensitive habitats, highway right-of-ways, and leader in streetscape, trail, and park design. With both municipal historical sites that require special regulations and management and private clients, LPCI offers a diverse project portfolio with of land and wildlife. emphasis in the areas of pedestrian facilities, streetscape projects, bicycle and pedestrian trails, bikeways, gateway and scenic byway Technical Competency with GIS, AutoCAD, and various Design design, park and recreation facilities, urban planning, greenways, Standards (ODOT, AASHTO, ADA, NHTSA) highway beautification, historic preservation, low impact site The LPCI staff includes designers with expertise in developing development planning, and general landscape architecture. LPCI’s construction documents for roadway design, parking lot layouts, reputation for design excellence has been acknowledged through complex pedestrian/vehicular intersections, and extensive numerous awards, including seventeen design awards presented profi ciency with trail development. As a landscape architecture by the American Society of Landscape Architects, the National fi rm, LPCI’s skills includes complex urban streetscapes and Society of Professional Engineers, and a nomination for a FHWA complete streets designs, rural and urban bike routes, on-road Enhancement Project Award. bike facilities, intersection safety improvements and off-road trails. We have completed numerous ODOT projects and have LPCI has provided site development, conceptual design, design extensive background coordinating with COGs on various reports, preliminary planning, construction documents, and project types. construction phase services for streetscapes, trails, and parks Treading Lightly, Low Impact Design, and Historic Preservation throughout Oklahoma and the region. Examples of LPCI’s constructed As kids, many of us learn in Scouts to leave a camp site better projects include GKFF Tulsa River Park Trails, I-244 Arkansas River than you found it. It’s a rule that applies to most of the projects Multi-Modal Bridge (Bike/Ped), Downtown Collinsville Streetscape, we do at LPCI. Whether it’s protecting the history of a site like Grove Downtown Redevelopment, Sand Springs River City Trail, Sequoyah State Park, for future generations, with its amazing 41st Street QuikTrip Plaza, Creek Turnpike Trail, Skiatook Central rock work designed in the 1930’s by the CCC, or managing Park, Boiling Springs State Park, and Standing Bear Park in Ponca stormwater run-off on site at Turkey Mountain to help fi lter City. With more than 66 trail design projects, 30 streetscape water and protect adjacent land, we are always trying to leave projects, and 40 park projects, LPCI has unmatched expertise in a landscape better than we found it. the planning and design of these types of projects. Cost Estimating Experience LPCI also has relevant experience with many public works projects LPCI’s ability to create engineering and construction cost from storm water detention, highway and right of way planting, and estimates is directly related to our recent background of wetland mitigation. Some of our notable projects include Riverside projects with similar scopes Resourcing recent constructed Drive Extension Landscaping, River Parks Reforestation Plan, Creek projects gives us access to fi gures that will help in forecasting Turnpike Wetland Mitigation, Creek Turnpike ROW Landscaping, calculations in construction methods, management, and materials. Heatherridge Storm Water/Detention Wetland Mitigation, River These estimates can be used to establish funding and budget Parks Eagle Habitat Mitigation and Fred Creek Habitat Mitigation predictions. Oklahoma Department of Transportation | Contract ID No. 2259 LandPlan Consultants, Inc. | 3 Team Organization We have led a team of experts recognized independently for outstanding contributions to their respective fi elds of civil engineering, Jeff Morales, ASLA structural engineering, hydrology, transportation engineering, surveying, and landscape architecture to meet the service needs SENIOR ASSOCIATE, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT of ODOT’s TA projects. Consultant team members, if needed, will be Oklahoma professionals who are chosen for previous teaming LPCI: 2004 - Present efforts, established expertise, technical competency, and success 16 years of experience on similar projects. Keith Franklin, President of LPCI, will lead all BLA in Landscape Architecture,