Resiliency Plan

Full RFP can be found at https://haydencolorado.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Town-of-Hayden-Resiliency-Plan-Request-for-Proposals-01.08.2025.pdf

RFP"s due at 3:00 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time January 28, 2025.

The Town of Hayden (Town) is seeking a qualified consulting firm/s to submit a proposal for the Hayden Resiliency Plan. This resiliency plan will focus on five core areas:

1. Hayden Development (Land Use) Code Update
2. Public Works Studies, Water and Wastewater Rate Model Update & Infrastructure Growth Modeling
3. Financial Growth Impact Model
4. Environmental Resiliency Review
5. Community Health Assessment and Action Plan

The overarching goal of this process is to set Hayden on the path of a resilient future when it comes to growth (both land use and infrastructure), community health, operational resiliency, environmental sustainability, and financial resiliency.

The Town"s preference is that one firm be the lead firm for the project, but we understand that some of these categories may not fall within each other so we will accept proposal for each category.

Why Resiliency? We often find that these types of "plans" operate in silos, never considering their impacts on other facets of the community/environment/etc (ie Development Codes requiring irrigated, maintained grass lawns in climates where it is averse to water conservation goals). This process will involve pulling together these plans (and older ones), evaluating the data, and drilling down to determine the inconsistencies, conflicting issues, and pinch points. The goal is to create a more cohesive, thoughtful basis for making decisions. The Hayden Resiliency Project will result in five focus area plans and an executive summary tying each plan together. It will provide the community with a decision matrix model for the future. Outside of the development code, this plan will act as an action plan for the current and future Town Councils. All of the plans will be developed through the lens of resiliency and ensuring that to the extent possible they work together and minimize conflict. Below we have detailed each plan expectations and desired outcomes. Hayden Development Code Update The Town of Hayden (Town) is seeking a qualified consulting to rewrite/update of the Hayden Development Code for the purpose of aligning it with the Hayden Forward Master Plan (Master Plan) and interfacing with the other focus areas of the Resiliency Study.

Hayden is seeking a creative team with a public engagement approach where Town staff and the consulting team can collaboratively work with the community to rewrite the Development Code. The rewrite/updates will have a focus on creating clarity in the procedures and standards for applicants and community members, modernizing code language and standards, and better consider community resiliency in the decision make process.

CONSULTANT ROLE AND SCOPE OF SERVICES

The Hayden Forward Master Plan was adopted in January, 2021 and the Hayden Housing Needs Assessment and Action Plan were published in 2022 (a copy of the Master Plan and associated Appendices, as well as the Housing Needs Assessment and Action Plan can be found on the Town website https://www.haydencolorado.com/planning-and-zoning). As part of the Hayden Resiliency Project, the Hayden Development Code will need to be consistent with the other resulting plans and studies in the sense that it considers growth/development/changes through the lens of resiliency. This project will involve a highly detailed, side-by-side analysis of the existing regulations and the Hayden Forward Master Plan to determine the following:

• Which existing regulations are fully supported by the Hayden Forward Master Plan and can remain as written,
• Which existing regulations are not supported by the Hayden Forward Master Pan and, therefore, should be eliminated, and
• Which existing regulations are supported by the Hayden Forward Master Plan, but need to be clarified, reworded, or amended to reflect the relevant policies, current terminology, new strategies, or resiliency criteria.

The analysis will also need to identify the policies and action items included in the Hayden Forward Master Plan that are not currently addressed in the regulations and should be implemented through new regulations and standards. Code changes should enable the Town to process large-scale and new types of development applications, with confidence that the impacts of such projects will be adequately identified, addressed and mitigated. All regulations and standards should reflect up-to-date research and best practices on the most effective means of accomplishing the stated goals and policies of the Master Plan. Other stakeholders that will be involved in the process of drafting the standards and regulations include several Town Departments, Planning Commission and the Hayden Town Council, Routt County, state agencies, the construction, design and development industries, and non-profit organizations. It is expected that a technical advisory committee of local subject experts would meet regularly to help guide and inform the development of and revisions to regulations. The following areas have been identified as issues of particular importance:

• Incorporation of resiliency criteria into the decision-making process. How will a decision impact the Town, community, environment, infrastructure today but also 50, 80+ years in the future. Increased community engagement/public notice strategies.
• The exploration of density incentives, deed restrictions, and other tools to create permanent affordability in housing.
• The development of regulations and standards designed to implement key elements of other plans and studies in the Hayden Resiliency Project.
• Strategies to better incorporate consideration for infrastructure improvements necessary for a development into the regulatory process.

Full RFP, including scope for other plans/studies (Public Works Studies to include Water and Wastewater Rate Model Update & Infrastructure Growth Modeling, Financial Growth Impact Model, Environmental Resiliency Review and Community Health Assessment and Action Plan) found at https://haydencolorado.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Town-of-Hayden-Resiliency-Plan-Request-for-Proposals-01.08.2025.pdf