The Town of East Gwillimbury is experiencing dramatic urban growth that will persist over the next few years. The Town wanted to visualize, monitor and report on the status of new development thereby assisting staff to effectively manage workflows: Commence road patrols for maintenance, snow removal, garbage collection, fire break allocations and monitoring. In an effort to effectively service the growth that is occurring and plan for the future, staff need data to make intelligence-based decisions and create effective workflows. The result is a web-based enterprise solution powered by FME and Esri servers that provides corporate-wide visualization and quantitative information on current development status: 1) Web map app available on all devices with LDAP authentication. 2) Email notifications for permitting by status change and data quality control monitoring. 3) Automated spreadsheet report tracking percentage complete milestones. 4) Update Dashboard report for improved decisions making and workflow activities. 5) New water meter installation tracking – improves asset management and enables financial

1. Growth Management
and Development
Dashboard
Carolynne Saxton

2. PRESENTATION AGENDA
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Why We Play
Start to Finish
Team and Tech
Game Plan
5
6
Laps
Leveled Up

3. This is one
reason Why

4. Why
● Doubling our size to over 50,000 by 2025.
● Initial sewer allocation of 7000 units
Increased to 7900 recently in 2019
● Over 21 developers and 19 builders currently working
within the Town.
What
● Needed to monitor, report and visualize the new
developments
● Support and manage workflows such as:
winter road patrols
road maintenance
side walk snow removal
garbage collection
fire break allocations monitoring
parks builds and agreement
community engagement

5. How do you track development change
From Start to Finish

6. How do you track development change
From Start to Finish

7. Tech & Team

8. Own some gear
Hired a team of
wizards
Esri Enterprise ELA
Late 2015 purchase
• Esri Server 10.4.1 – Now at 10.6.1
• Portal
Safe Software
Late 2016 purchase
• FME Server 2017.1
• FME desktop Esri Edition

9. Game Plan

10. The Drawing Board

11. Title here
Subtitle
The Workspace
Provides our Parcel layer
Which we use to match against.
EG takes a cut as needed.

13. Lap by Lap

14. Info Action
Corrective Action
Esri Portal Web App
Corrective
Action
First Lap

15. Notifications Corrective Action Items
Fixed by Building staff
and rerun next pass.
Information Action Items
List of New Occupancy Addresses

16. Mapping

17. Second Lap - Dashboarding

18. Start of Dashboarding – Percentage complete
Multi Tab Spread Sheet

19. Stats by
Community
INSERT COUNT
Staff Excel

20. The Big
Picture

21. Work Bench's
City View Connects to Data base
Writes to SDE
Creates Notification
YDSS Percentage complete
Dash board

22. Main Point
2018 Awards
URISA ESIG Distinguished System
CAMA Professional Development
URISA Ontario Best Public Sector GIS

23. THANK YOU!
csaxton@eastgwillimbury.ca