Community Youth Center

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Community Youth Center

• URP 4273
• Survey of Planning Information Systems
• Final Group Project Team Two
• Spring 2003

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Team Objectives

• Provide Youth Center To
• Create a place where children of all ages can
  come and meet
• Have access to various types of information
• Internet
• Books, music and magazines
• Various sports equipment and fields/courts
• Get after school help with homework

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Major Criteria for Youth Center

• Transportation/Accessibility
• Close to major roads
• Close to existing bus stops

• Construction Considerations
• Close to major roads for easy access for
  construction vehicles/workers
• All utilities within a reasonable proximity to
  the site

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Major Criteria for Youth Center

• Existing Infrastructure
• Walking distance to and access of local schools
• Close to various local housing neighborhoods/apart
  ment complexes

• Demographics
• Target age ranges Adolescents

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Major Criteria for Youth Center

• Impediments to Construction
• Not within flood zones
• Land is undeveloped and available
• Zoned Commercial for immediate construction
• Enough land to build Youth Center on and have
  needed parking located on site

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Note For All Data

• Source FGDL data for Alachua County
• Extent Majority of data used are for the East
  Gainesville area
• All shapefiles provided were used in some part of
  the analysis.
• Metadata proved beneficial when Geoprocessing did
  not

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Unsuitable Data

• Outlining the processes to find the data that
  would cause any impediments to construction

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Florida Natural Areas Boundaries
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FNAI Zones (A,B,C) Buffer
FNAI given a 100m buffer giving us Final_con
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Natural Streams Buffer
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Natural Streams Buffer
Stream_shp given a 400m buffer giving us
Stream_buf400
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Historic Structures Buffer
Historic_shp given a 75m buffer giving us
Historic_buf75
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Future Land Use Buffer
FNAI given a 100m buffer giving us Final_con

• Selection Parameters
• Commercial, Residential, and Recreational

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Final Union of Buffers
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Setup for Future Clip

• Created field buffer_ran
• Calced to a unique number to differentiate from
  polygons in the Good Layer when Unioned

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Workflow to get to Final Union of Buffers
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Suitable Lands

• Only thing left after we have found the numerous
  impediments is to find suitable areas
• Agreed to use areas above the flood zone as our
  input layer under our final_union

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FEMA/Special Flood Area
Above Fl_zone and municipalities were union to
create Suitable_flzone
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FEMA Suitable Polygon Selection
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Exclusion Areas
Final Union of Buffers
Land Above Flood Areas
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Data Analysis

• Analyze city data to decide which parcel will be
  suitable
• Census, tiger line files, metadata, utilities,
  zoning, etc.

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Suitable Lands and Parcels

• PUSE Code (0000, 1000)
• 4 8 acres in size

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Vacant Parcel Information
Our Proposed Site is represented in yellow
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Location of Vacant ParcelUsing Internet GIS
Software
Our Proposed Site is represented in yellow
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Site Analysis-Water Lines Major Streets
Our Proposed Site is represented in yellow
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Site AnalysisSchools, Bus Stops Unsuitable Land
Our Proposed Site is represented in yellow
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Complete Workflow Diagram
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Team Two Group Members
Miranda Bartlett
Danny Merced
Charles Rodriguez
Chad Lethig