The Town of Harrisburg, North Carolina ("Town") is seeking proposals from qualified consultants (individual firms or teams of consultants) to assist the Town with a comprehensive update of the Town's Unified Development Ordinance ("UDO"). The Town is interested in firms capable of providing professional services including, research, analysis, stakeholder engagement, drafting of UDO text, graphics and final document preparation.

The Town adopted its first zoning ordinance in 1985, followed by adoption of the current Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) in 2008. Significant changes in the Town's population, land development pattern and economy, along with State legislative and land use changes since that time have highlighted the need for a comprehensive rewrite of the current UDO.

In 2018, the Harrisburg Town Council adopted the Harrisburg Area Land Use Plan (HALUP), developed in partnership with Cabarrus County. This plan provides the vision and framework for future development of the Town through 2040. The primary objective of the UDO update is to align it with the recently adopted HALUP to implement the vision established, through regulations that will guide land development within the Town's corporate limits and Extra Terrestrial Jurisdiction (ETJ).

The Harrisburg UDO is the primary regulatory document guiding all development and land use within the Town of Harrisburg and its ETJ. The following principles shall guide preparation of the UDO update:

• Ensure consistency between UDO and Harrisburg Area Land Sue Plan (HALUP) stated outcomes and policies;
• Regulations shall incorporate and be consistent with state (NCGS), as well as applicable federal statutes pertaining to zoning, land use, subdivision, environmental protection, permitting, administration, appeals/variances, conditional uses and enforcement;
• Create user-friendly format with "plain language" text with "graphics", where applicable;
• Where possible, ensure continuity between existing and new UDO text;
• Minimize text redundancies and need to reference multiple sections of UDO. Provide cross- references where multiple sections of ordinance must be accessed;
• Ensure text, terms and procedural consistency within UDO;
• Update and add definitions to reflect current planning practice and usage;
• Update use table to reflect both existing and future uses;
• Maximize use of diagrams and graphics to promote intuitive understating and use of UDO;
• Produce "static" as well as "interactive" (web-based) ordinance formats – with latter utilizing hyperlinks and searchable functions.

Proposals are due January 09, 2020, 5 PM EST, Click the link for the RFP