Call for Proposals: South Caswell Concept Plan

In 2008, the Neighbourhood Planning Section within the City of Saskatoon, allocated funding to pursue a plan for enhancing the Transit Facility site and surrounding area in the event that the Transit Facility moves out of the neighbourhood. The first step in this effort is to create a concept plan for the Transit Facility and surrounding area. This concept plan is to address a number of items and also serve as a means to complete the Caswell Hill LAP initially commissioned by the City of Saskatoon in 2001.

In January 2009, a request for proposals was announced. This called for qualified groups to submit a proposal to undertake a process to develop a concept for the area. A Steering Committee was arranged comprised of civic adminstration and representatives from the neighbouhood.

The Scope of the Work includes:

a) engage stakeholders by conducting a design workshop;
b) a process for general neighbourhood public consultation and input;
c) the SCCP must include a statement of Existing Infrastructure and Servicing Capacity;
d) the SCCP must address the neighbourhood’s current park space deficiencies status (available from the Community Development Branch);
e) consider the potential for adaptive re-use of the existing Transit Facility structures including the potential for site contamination (see Attachment 2);
f) a capital costing estimate;
g) develop a land use concept plan;
h) Recommendations emanating from the SCCP that may conflict with existing Caswell Hill LAP recommendations must be duly noted; and
i) hosting a public open house at the conclusion of the planning process.

Specific to the Caswell Hill LAP, the following recommendations must be addressed in the SCCP:

Rec. 4.1: “If the City of Saskatoon considers relocating the Municipal Transit Facility out of the Caswell Hill neighbourhood, the old transit site (or portion of the site) should be evaluated for park space and a community centre as an alternative use;” and

Rec. 4.2: “That Community Services Department continue to work with the Caswell Hill Community Association to identify potential park space locations in the neighbourhood.”

In total, the City of Saskatoon received a 7 proposals in total from local and western canadian consultants. After a large review by the Steering Committee, the MMM Group Ltd. out of Winnipeg, MB was awarded the contract.