Overview of GIS Analysis

 

• Identify Parcels Within the Municipal Boundary
  Export from MetroScan to ARC/INFO
  
  
• Dissolve Adjacent Polygons with the Same PINs
  
  
• Calculate (Fix) Original Parcel Areas, Counts of Housing Units,
  and Building Square Footage
  
  
• Define Sensitive Areas
  Stream & Wetland Buffers, Steep Slopes
  
  
• Set &/or Calculate Initial Baseline Data
  Housing Units
  Employees
  
  
• Union Parcel Data with Current and Future Zoning Data
  
  
• Union Parcel+Zoning with Urban Center Boundary
  
  
• Union Parcel+Zoning+Urban Center with Airport Area
  
  
• Removal of "Slivers"

Eliminate if polygon size less than 300, and an area-to-lot square foot ratio less than or equal to 0.1

• Cull Parcels Not in Analysis
  Parcels Excluded from Analysis:

Airport

Schools

Fire Station

Utility-related parcels (e.g., water, electrical)

Specific residential units*.

*Apartment buildings straddling parcel boundaries

• Export Data
  Infodbase to get data into Access
  
  
• Filters, Calculations, & Summaries
  Within Access
  

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Data Sources Filters & Calculations