Designing and Mapping the Future of Your Community With GIS“No matter how large or small your community, as a planner youdeal with spatial information such as parcels, zoning, land use,addresses, transportation networks, and housing stock. You alsomonitor multiple urban and regional indicators, forecast futurecommunity needs, and plan accordingly to help improve the qualityof life in your community.”Milton Ospina, ESRIUrban and Regional Planning and EconomicDevelopment Solutions ManagerEvery day, planners use geographic information system (GIS) technologyto research, develop, implement, and monitor the progress of their plans.GIS provides planners, surveyors, and engineers with the tools they needto design and map their neighborhoods and cities. Planners have thetechnical expertise, political savvy, and fiscal understanding to transforma vision of tomorrow into a strategic action plan for today, and they useGIS to facilitate the decision-making process.Planners have always been involved in developing communities everyonewould want to call home. Originally, this meant designing and maintainingcities and counties through land use regulation and infrastructuresupport. Agencies have had to balance the needs of residential neighborhoods,agricultural areas, and business concerns. Now, in addition to thatcomplex challenge, local governments must factor into these decisionsthe requirements of a growing list of regional, state, and federal agenciesas well as special interest groups.Rapidly changing economic conditions have further complicated theprocess by threatening the funding needed to carry out these functions.To date, local governments have been rightsized and downsized andhave had budgets drastically cut while trying to maintain service levels.Information technology, especially GIS, has proven crucial in helping localgovernments cope in this environment.ESRI® software solutions help planning, building and safety, public works,and engineering professionals meet or exceed these demands. ESRIsoftware is the number one choice of local governments for mapping andanalysis. Using GIS software from ESRI, planning agencies have discoveredhow traditional tasks can be performed more efficiently and tasks—previouslyimpractical or impossible—can be easily accomplished.Benefits of using GIS in local government include the following:• Increase efficiency. • Save time.• Generate revenue. • Provide decision support.• Improve accuracy. • Manage resources.• Automate tasks. • Save money.• Increase access to government. • Enhance public participation.• Promote greater collaborationamong public agencies.“Urban and regional planning underlies the very fabric
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