Specifications include, but are not limited to: The planning process requires the assistance of a consultant to compile and report on: • Existing and planned paved and soft surface multiuse trails, bikeways, and waterways. • Available corridors for off-street trail and bike recreation facility development including but not limited to waterway, utility, railroad corridors, Milwaukee County Park land, and other publicly or privately owned land. • Existing road rights-of-way that may have excess capacity or space for development of separated bikeway and other bike focused recreation amenities. • Gaps in the trail network. • Realistic, prioritized solutions to gaps. • Trends in recreation that relate to trail planning. The consultant must also develop a framework for determining how to prioritize projects using community input and relevant community level census and ACS data (such as vehicle ownership rates, obesity, concentration of children, etc) as well as Reconnecting Milwaukee: A BikeAble™ Study of Opportunity, Equity and Connectivity and the findings from the Northwest Side Trail Connectivity Plan. The consultant must make recommendations that are based on principals of universal accessibility and equity, especially racial equity
