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- Just how valuable is CommunityViz in local planning efforts?
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- Centre Region
- Planning Commission
- Bob Crum, Planner
- Steve Arnold, Senior Research
Technologist - GTP
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- Centre Region: Centre County, PA
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- Scale
- Centre County = the size of Rhode Island!
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- Growth
- Rapidly Developing Area
- I-99 corridor
- PSU campus expansion
- Others
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- County & Region àforecast
development & its impacts.
- Results support comprehensive planning efforts
- Forecasting = tool to assist municipalities in making important
decisions about zoning and development.
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- BUILDOUT ASSESSMENT
Assess full buildout potential
- Compare full buildout with 2030 forecasting data
- CommunityViz vs. local, knowledge-based model
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- Assess CommunityViz in a real world project situation
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- TODAY’S SPEAKERS
- Centre County: the county comprehensive planning effort
- Centre Region: forecasting development within the region through 2030
- LAL process: CommunityViz Demonstration / Application, working with the
county & the region
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- Centre County Planning & Forecasting
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- Centre Region’s Planning & Forecasting
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- How is the property zoned?
- Comprehensive Plan
- Is property within the RGB or Sewer Service Area?
- Public Sewer Service
- Public Water
- Transportation Access
- Physical Characteristics/Constraints
- Is the property in an agricultural or conservation easement?
- Has a Sketch Plan been submitted for the property?
- Has a plan been approved for the property – are there undeveloped lots
remaining?
- Discussions with developers/municipal staff
- Adjacent land uses
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- Dwelling Units Population Growth
- Ferguson Twp + 2,771 + 7,038
- Patton Twp + 1,919 + 4,567
- Harris Twp + 797 + 2,112
- SC Borough + 673 + 1,548
- College Twp + 672 + 1,620
- Halfmoon Twp + 640 + 1,965
- Centre Region + 7,472 +18,850
- 278 units/year 698/year
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- Retail Square Feet
- Patton Township + 271,000
- College Township + 210,000
- State College Borough + 193,264
- Ferguson Township + 116,000
- Halfmoon Township + 19,000
- Harris Township + 10,000
- Centre Region + 819,264
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- Square Feet
- College Township 673,000
- Ferguson Township 367,300
- Patton Township 200,000
- State College Borough 132,100
- Harris Township 40,000
- CENTRE REGION 1,412,400
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- 1980 Population: 717
- 2000 Population: 2,357
- Private Water Company
- Developed Areas Served by On-Lot Sewage Disposal Systems
- Located at Headwaters of Two High Quality Watersheds
- Major Access via PA Route 550
- Rural Lifestyle Continues to Attract Residential Growth
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- GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY: solutions to landuse planning
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- About CommunityViz
- The Project & Data Collection
- Buildout on a County & Municipal
- Visualization
- Preliminary Evaluation of Viz
- Future Project Goals
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- An ArcView 3.x Extension
- A community planning tool
- Designed for the regular user
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- TODAY’S FOCUS
- Buildout – full potential buildout based on zoning & parcel data
- Impact Assessment (Indicators)
- Water
- Sewer
- Traffic
- Loss of Farmland
- Soils
- Visualization
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- Numeric: CommunityViz calculates potential capacity of each parcel
- Spatial: CommunityViz places points on each parcel that represent
structures
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- Multiple Development Scenarios
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- Scenarios & Impact Assessment / Comparison
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- OTHER FEATURES:
- Development Constraints
- Policy Simulation (discontinued in future versions)
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- Buildout in Community Viz
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- A parcel-based assessment
- Required data for CommunityViz variables
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- About CommunityViz
- The Project & Data Collection
- Buildout on a County & Municipal Level
- Visualization
- Preliminary Evaluation of Viz
- Future Project Goals
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- DATA GATHERING & COMPILATION
- Mines (required compilation)
- Wells (required compilation)
- Parks & Public Lands
- Slope / elevation
- Soils
- Wetlands
- Zoning (collection & digitization)
- Buildings (required compilation)
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- Municipal Civil Divisions & Boundaries!
- 36 Townships
- 20 w/zoning
- Collection
- Digitization
- Inconsistencies
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- Multiple zoning categories within individual zoning districts
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- Industrial & Commercial areas & FAR – data interpolation
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- SOME OTHER ISSUES
- Open space requirements are not considered other than adjusting
efficiency values.
- No clustering option in building placement.
- Setbacks in Spatial Buildout (how it places buildings)
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- About Community Viz
- The Project & Data Collection
- Buildout on a County & Municipal Level
- Visualization
- Preliminary Evaluation of Viz
- Future Project Goals
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- CommunityViz ISSUES AT THE COUNTY LEVEL
- Speed & file size
- Boundary alignment
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- Township level buildout demonstration
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- About Community Viz
- The Project & Data Collection
- Buildout on a County & Municipal Level
- Visualization
- Preliminary Evaluation of Viz
- Future Project Goals
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- MORE DETAILED IMPACT ANALYSIS
- Population
- Schools
- Financial
- Sewer & water capacity….
- OTHER SOFTWARE PACKAGES
- What if?
- Place3s
- 3d Nature (Visualization)
- Others…
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- CHALLENGES:
- No incorporation of open space
- Spatial Buildout: only approximated density
- Interface inefficiencies
- Currently only avail for 3.x (8.x version anticipated by the end of
this quarter)
- Limited customization of charts
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