This document outlines the qualifications, documents, proposals, time-frame and contacts necessary to respond to the RFQ. Request for qualifications document.

This is the City’s General Plan that guides future development as well as the actions and policies of the City and can be accessed online here. This document was modified to incorporate the tenets of Envision Central Heber and provides the long range template for the City’s next 30 years.

This document represents the plan for Heber City’s Downtown and can be accessed online at https://envisionheber.com/about-central-heber/.  This document has been adopted and incorporated into the current draft of General Plan referenced above.

Heber City has adopted design criteria for the Downtown entitled the C-3 Zone Design Standards and Guidelines available online here. This policy document identifies the design standards for development in the City’s downtown Zone, the C-3 Commercial Zone.

Heber City hired Roger Brooks, an esteemed Urban Plaza Designer, to help Heber City understand the necessary steps to create a world-class gathering area. This plan has been accepted by Council and will serve as the primary blue print in establishing finalized plans for the City’s gathering area. See this document online here.

Heber City has begun, but not completed, the process of establishing a brand for the downtown. While Council has not yet adopted this policy, designers should be aware of this document, as it may be referenced thoughout the design process, and may be adopted in the near future. Find this online here.

Another project occuring concurently and adjacent to the City’s gathering area, is a future alleyway coined C-Street. C-Street is intended to provide a desirable “Main Street” type of experience that connects from the gathering area, north to Heber City Hall. Along this future alleyway, the City envisions seeing future restaurants, entertainment and shopping opportunities within a pedestrian friendly environment as an alternative to Heber City’s current Main Street environment, which includes over 30,000 vehicle trips per day, along with significant noise, exhaust, smells and tanker trucks that make it difficult to promote a pedestrian friendly environment.

To mitigate some of the oppressive traffic in the downtown, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) is leading an environmental study for the construction of a future bypass around the City. That process should wind down in the next year. Information is available online here: https://hebervalleyeis.udot.utah.gov/.

Heber City has in place a Community Reinvestment Agency (CRA) to assist in future redevelopment financing of the downtown. 2 of the taxing entities have committeed tax increment to the CRA, with 2 remaining majority taxing entities having not yet committed to participate. Heber City has, and intends to continue to aggressively pursue other sources of financing such as grants and low interest loans to assist in the financing the City’s vision for the Trailhead Plaza.

Heber City is concurrently acquiring properties for the purpose of redevelopment and parking, as well as updating policies associated with parking, as Trailhead Plaza will necessitate future improvements to parking in the downtown. Roger Brooks has prepared a blue print for Heber City’s parking improvement plan, available online here.

Where the RFQ mentions security, CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) is what we were talking about.  The City has not yet identified a level of security for the site.  By implementing CPTED principles, we hope to design a safe place that minimizes the need for active security measures.

Electronic copies of the building permit/civil drawings for Phase 1 will be made available to the designer.

For ADA, in-house will suffice. The City will have the Building Official participating in the design review process to make sure we touch upon ADA requirements correctly.