EXTRA-71617 - USA (Amherst, Massachusetts) - Zoning Updates Consultant Service - Deadline July 7,2026

– Vendor needs to provide zoning updates consultant service to the government authority located in Amherst, MA. – Provide consultants to review the zoning in corridor, with a focus on increasing density for housing, exploring a potential district, and creating conceptual designs showing potential development scenarios.– Outline an implementation roadmap, including additional technical studies, regulatory coordination, and steps required to advance the chosen strategy.– Review of existing resources including zoning bylaw, wetland bylaw and regulations, housing production plan, master plan, and previous work done on a potential overlay district in the downtown area.– Assess the focus area and propose the project area that will be studied in more detail, including zoning changes.– Review and consider the proposed local historic district regulations and design guidelines.– Prepare a high–level review of market conditions for multifamily housing (and any realistic supporting non–residential uses) in the project area generally, with an emphasis on the three specific parcels and areas.– Prepare high level assessment to ensure that proposed zoning will create development that is market feasible.– Identify any major regulatory issues that would need to be resolved in future zoning amendments (e.g., relationship to underlaying zoning, site plan review process).