Community Youth Center

URP 4273

Survey of Planning Information Systems

Final Group Project: Team Two

Spring 2003

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

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

Major Criteria for Youth Center

Existing Infrastructure• Walking distance to and access of local schools• Close to various local housing

neighborhoods/apartment complexes

Demographics• Target age ranges: Adolescents

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

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

Unsuitable Data

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

Florida Natural Areas Boundaries

FNAI Zones (A,B,C) Buffer

FNAI given a 100m buffer giving us Final_con

Natural Streams Buffer

Natural Streams Buffer

Stream_shp given a 400m buffer giving us Stream_buf400

Historic Structures Buffer

Historic_shp given a 75m buffer giving us Historic_buf75

Future Land Use Buffer

FNAI given a 100m buffer giving us Final_con

Selection Parameters

•Commercial, Residential, and Recreational

Final Union of Buffers

•Created field ‘buffer_ran’

•Calced to a unique number to differentiate from polygons in the ‘Good Layer’ when “Unioned”

Setup for Future ‘Clip’

Workflow to get to Final Union of Buffers

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’

FEMA/Special Flood Area

Above Fl_zone and municipalities were union to create Suitable_flzone

FEMA Suitable Polygon Selection

Exclusion Areas

Final Union of Buffers

Land Above Flood Areas

Data Analysis

• Analyze city data to decide which parcel will be suitable

– Census, tiger line files, metadata, utilities, zoning, etc.

Suitable Lands and Parcels•PUSE Code (0000, 1000)

•4 – 8 acres in size

Vacant Parcel Information

Our Proposed Site is represented in yellow

Location of Vacant ParcelUsing Internet GIS Software

Our Proposed Site is represented in yellow

Site Analysis-Water Lines & Major Streets

Our Proposed Site is represented in yellow

Site AnalysisSchools, Bus Stops & Unsuitable Land

Our Proposed Site is represented in yellow

Complete Workflow Diagram

Team Two Group Members

Miranda Bartlett

Danny Merced

Charles Rodriguez

Chad Lethig