Comprehensive Planning Consulting Services
| Agency: | City of Peekskill |
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| State: | New York |
| Type of Government: | State & Local |
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| Posted Date: | Nov 14, 2025 |
| Due Date: | Jan 20, 2026 |
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Comprehensive Planning Consulting Services
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| Category: | 2025 Bids/RFP's |
| Status: | Open |
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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP)
CITY OF PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK
COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING CONSULTING SERVICES
SMART GROWTH, TRANSPORTATION, AND HOUSING EXPERTISE
DUE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 11:59 P.M.
Responses must be submitted by email to:
Carol J. Samol, AICP, Director
Department of Planning & Development
City of Peekskill
csamol@cityofpeekskillny.gov
cc: Peter Erwin, AICP
perwin@cityofpeekskillny.gov
cc: peekskillrfp@gmail.com
Please submit any questions about this RFP by Thursday, December 18, 2025, to Peter
Erwin at (914) 734-8417 or perwin@cityofpeekskillny.gov and peekskillrfp@gmail.com.
This RFP and answers to submitted questions can be found on-line at https://ny-
peekskill.civicplus.com/Bids.aspx.
1. Project Description
The City of Peekskill (“City”) requests proposals from qualified planning consultant teams to assist
in developing a new Comprehensive Plan for the City. The selected consultant team will work with
the City and an advisory committee to prepare the Comprehensive Plan pursuant to New York
State General City Law § 28.
The maximum budget for this project is $500,000. The project is partially funded by Smart Growth
Comprehensive Planning Grant #C1002354 from the New York State Department of State (“DOS”),
Housing Study Grant #C1002698 from the New York State Department of State (“DOS”), and a
Safe Streets for All transportation planning grant from the US Department of Transportation
(“USDOT”). Additional grant awards are pending.
Peekskill, NY is a historic river community at the foothills of the Hudson Highlands. While some
industries withdrew from Peekskill during the twentieth century – as regional freight transit shifted
to major interstate highways – the city retained a unique mix of recreational waterfront and light
industrial and creative businesses. Today’s development pressure, including housing growth
particularly, offers Peekskill an opportunity to accommodate smart growth while improving the City’s
public spaces, connectivity, and resilience to climate change. Peekskill’s prior Comprehensive Plan
was completed in 1958 and last updated in 1981. Today, planning decisions are guided by the
more recent Local Waterfront Revtalization Program (2004, updated 2015) and Downtown
Revitalization Initiative Plan (2022).
Public engagement – built on clear and consistent messaging and visuals, significant Spanish-
language materials and activities, and thoughtful in-person events – is critical to the success of the
comprehensive plan.
The Comprehensive Plan will establish community-informed objectives and guide the City in
overseeing sustainable growth, enhancing local cultural identity, and protecting its natural and
cultural resources. The Comprehensive Plan must address the following Smart Growth principles:
Promote mixed land uses where appropriate.
Create an adequate range of housing opportunities and choices.
Promote development where infrastructure is adequate and sustainable.
Build on the existing traits that give Peekskill a sense of place.
Promote public spaces.
Promote mobility and circulation within Peekskill and connectivity to neighboring places.
Promote mass transit.
Promote walkable/bikeable neighborhood designs
Stimulate the economy through visitorship
Integrate clean energy resources using incentives.
Improve resiliency to extreme weather events.
Encourage social diversity and integration.
Expand planning and implementation efforts across jurisdictional lines.
Promote community and and stakeholder collaboration in planning.
Promote fiscally responsible and financially sustainable policies
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As further described in “Section 2: Scope of Work,” the selected consultant team will work with the
City and a project advisory committee to conduct a robust discovery phase and create a strategic,
flexible, and equitable outreach framework for the comprehensive plan. Next, the consultant will
develop chapters that address specific focus areas (see “Section 3: Primary Focus Areas”).
Individual grant funding work under certain focus areas may contain specific procedural
requirements. City staff will work closely with the consultant to ensure all grant conditions are
satisfied. Secondary focus areas should be completed to the extent the budget allows.
Historic downtown Peekskill (left) and a recent illuminated public art installation (right).
2. Scope of Work
A. Project management and advisory committee [Contract #C1002354 Task 5]
The selected consultant will create a task-based work plan with goals to guide the planning process
to a timely completion. The consultant must meet with City staff regularly to advance the project
and report on progress on tasks and goals.
The consultant and the City will also schedule recurring advisory committee meetings during the
planning process to advance the preparation, review, and approval of the Comprehensive Plan,
and to organize and conduct community participation events. The consultant will create and
distribute meeting summaries, agendas, and next steps.
B. Community Participation Plan [Contract #C1002354 and Contract #C1002698 Task 6]
The selected consulant team will prepare a Community Participation Plan for City and DOS review
that describes the public outreach and participation efforts that will be conducted during the
development of the Comprehensive Plan. Engagement activities required by various grants may
occur simultaneously, though in some cases engagement activities might necessarily be specific
to certain focus areas, such as housing.
A successful outreach framework will: build public trust; engage populations across the city,
especially those historically underrepresented; reflect an ability to gather feedback and change
course as necessary; create specific and efficient engagement events; maintain clear public
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messaging in both English and Spanish; and provide a consistent look and feel for the
comprehensive planning process to support communications. The City will provide the consultant
team with a style guide for development of the look and feel.
At a minimum, the Community Participation Plan shall include in-person or virtual interviews with
local and regional stakeholders, a community survey, one or more public information meetings, one
or more public workshops, one or more public hearings, and a webpage with links to
announcements, presentations and documents prepared during the planning process. Through
stakeholder mapping, the Community Participation Plan shall identify key individuals,
organizations, and entities to be involved, and shall identify roles and responsibilities in coordinating
the entire outreach process, logistics, and the proposed schedule of the proposed public outreach
and participation efforts. Public access must be provided for each public meeting or workshop.
Outreach efforts should encourage participation from populations who are frequently
underrepresented in this process. Furthermore, the selected consultant must maintain language
access by ensuring all meetings and materials are presented in both English and Spanish and seek
to be culturally sensitive to speakers of multiple languages.
C. Community Survey and Stakeholder Interviews [Contract #C1002354 Task 7]
To reach a wide audience, the selected consultant team will develop a relevant and accessible
community survey addressing current conditions and issues of concern. The survey should be
made available to the public as hard copy and digitally, in English and Spanish. Following the
completion of the survey, the consultant will develop a summary of results and analysis. This
process should build on the City’s recent outreach and survey efforts around climate vulnerabilities
and economic development.
Following the survey and based on this stakeholder mapping, the selected consultant team will
design and conduct targeted individual or group interviews. The number of interviews and their
content will depend on the results of the survey.
D. Review Local and Regional Planning Efforts [Contract #C1002354 Task 8]
The selected consultant will identify and review existing local and regional planning documents and
ongoing initiatives. The consulant shall develop a brief written findings report describing and
assessing existing planning documents and the issues and opportunities identified by community
leaders.
E. Community Profile [Contract #C1002354 Task 9]
The selected consultant will draft a Community Profile consisting of an inventory and analysis of
existing conditions with narratives, maps, and relevant data. The analysis should identify potential
solutions to existing issues and potential opportunities using a Smart Growth framework. The
Community Profile may include, but is not limited to:
History of the municipal jurisdiction and boundaries
Description of previous comprehensive plan development and adoption processes
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Demographic characteristics (population and growth trends, age distribution, average
household size, ethnic composition, average household income, social diversity and
integration, demographic trends)
Local and regional economic characteristics (unemployment rates and trends, work force
characterization, dominant and emerging business sector types, major employers and
industries, sales tax information, property tax rates, economic trends, housing statistics)
Land use and smart growth focus areas
Agricultural and forest lands, uses, and districts
Infrastructure and public utilities extent, capacity, age, and maintenance
Transportation systems, levels of mobility and circulation, walkable/bikeable neighborhood,
connectivity with areas outside jurisdictional lines, distance to jobs
Natural resources, climate, and greenhouse gas emissions
Extreme weather events, flooding, erosion hazards, and local resiliency
Health and emergency services and facilities
Parks and public spaces, recreation facilities, capacity and maintenance, accessibility etc.
Historic, cultural, and scenic resources
Waterfront resources and public access
Zoning and other relevant local development controls
Municipal operating budget, total assessment and tax roll, and other financial resources
Anchoring local businesses or service organizations that are important to quality of life
Note that the Community Profile may incorporate already completed work such as the Peekskill
Natural Resources Inventory, but should synthesize and coherently present such information.
F. Community Visioning Workshops [Contract #C1002354 Task 10]
The selected consultant will collaborate with the City to conduct at least two public workshops to
inform the public about the findings of the planning process conducted to date, present a clear
assessment of how Smart Growth policies are integrated in the municipality’s planning efforts, and
solicit public input. Preference will be given to a consultant that demonstrates a robust public
engagement plan and the ability to produce compelling and interactive engagement materials
across various media platforms. Two public meetings must include a focus on housing and must
qualify as “Community Workshops” under Housing Study Grant #C1002698
The Peekskill Department of Planning conducted an open house in September 2025 to solicit input and
share information on the waterfront development plans.
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