Planning and Zoning Workshop 2012

1. Planning Support System
at Your Fingertips
Martin Kim, AICP, GISP - MVRPC
Andrew Aidt, AICP - City of Kettering
Tom Harner - MVRPC

3. What is a Planning
Support System?

9. Why are Planning Support
Systems Getting Popular?

11. What are New Emerging Trends?

12. Data Sharing
Enterprise SystemMobile Technologies
Customer-Focused
Applications

13. Challenges?

14. Training
Commitment
Champion

15. BY: ANDREW AIDT
Use of PSS
by
The City of Kettering
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16. 1. CURRENT PSS APPLICATIONS
2. RATIONALE FOR PSS
3. CHALLENGES
4. BENEFITS
5. FUTURE PLANS
Outline
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17. PSS Use In Kettering
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1. Current Systems
a. Accela Permits Plus
b. Geographic Information System
c. Web QA
d. Custom MS Access Databases
2. Accela Automation
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18. Current Systems
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PERMITS PLUS
GIS
WEB QA
CUSTOM MS ACCESS DATABASES
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19. Permits Plus
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Accela Permits Plus
 Over 10 years old
 MS Access database
 No web access
 No Citizen access
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20. Geographic Information System
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ESRI Software
Many layers of data
 Montgomery County
 Parcels, Centerlines, Water, Sanitary & Orthophotography
 Greene County
 Parcels, Centerlines, Water, Sanitary & Orthophotography
 Kettering
 Storm Sewer, Street lights, Traffic Signs, Hydrants, Sidewalks,
Bikeways, Zoning & Others
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21. Geographic Information System
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Internal GIS Web Viewers
 ESRI Server
 Silverlight Viewer
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22. Geographic Information System
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23. WebQA
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24. 10
Accela Automation
“Accela makes governments easier, faster and more
accessible for agency staff and their citizens. Innovative, web-
based office and mobile software automates permit, asset and
land management, and licensing processes for city, county,
state, and federal government agencies worldwide.”
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25. Modules
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LAND MANAGEMENT
ASSET MANAGEMENT
SERVICE REQUEST
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26. Accela Automation
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27. Cloud-based software
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28. Accela Applications
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29. Accela Applications
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30. • Retirement of knowledge
• Efficiency
• Transparency
• Public access
• Using current technology
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Rationale for PSS
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31. • Change!
• Technical knowledge
• Hardware
• Cost
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Challenges
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32. • Efficiency
• Transparency
• Public access
• Using current technology
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Benefits
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33. • Implementation
• Workflow
• Business process analysis
• Hardware
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Future Plans
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34. Conclusion
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1. CURRENT PSS APPLICATIONS?
2. RATIONALE FOR PSS
3. CHALLENGES
4. BENEFITS
5. FUTURE PLANS

35. Great PSS Web Sites
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1. OSIP OHIO STATEWIDE IMAGERY PROGRAM
• http://gis3.oit.ohio.gov/geodata/
2. ARCGIS RESOURCE CENTER
• http://resources.arcgis.com/content/local-government
3. POLICY MAP
• http://www.policymap.com/maps
4. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
(GIMS) ODNR
• http://
www.dnr.state.oh.us/gims/counties/tabid/15384/Default.aspx
5. BATCHGEO
• http://www.batchgeo.com/
 CENSUS QUICKFACTS
• http://quickfacts.census.gov
 ESRI – MAKE YOUR OWN MAP
1. http://mapapps.esri.com/create-map/index.html
1. FREEDOMWEB
• https://www.freedomwebdata.com
2. REPORTALL
• http://montgomery.oh.reportallusa.com/map
 NATIONAL ATLAS
• http://www.nationalatlas.gov/
 NATIONAL HISTORICAL GIS
• https://www.nhgis.org/
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36. MVRPC’s Planning Support
Systems
• MVRPC has been increasing the use and
enhancing Planning Support Systems over the
years in the planning process to:
– Facilitate better decision making
– Share planning related information
– Expand public participation at the
regional level

37. Evolution of MVRPC PSS Application
Static
Interactive
Dynamic &
Customized
Static
Maps
Static Maps
Downloadable
on the Web
Interactive
Maps
Interactive
Maps on
the Web
1990s 2000 2007
Interactive &
Customized
Maps on
the Web

38. GIS Online Planning Support System
• Service-oriented web-based mapping
application
– Interactive data visualization tool
– Provide user-friendly application providing
data access, data retrieval, and data display
functions
– 1st
generation: Arc IMS

39. GIS Online Planning Support System
 Launched in March 2007
 Boundary – Political jurisdiction boundary
 Census – Census Block, Block Group, Tracts and Urban
Area Boundaries
 Environment – Wastewater facility planning areas and
Watershed boundaries
 Land Fabric – Open Space and Future Land Use Plans
 Transportation – Bikeways, Traffic Analysis Zones, Roads,
and the FHWA Federal-Aid Urbanized Area boundary

40. OPSS Supports Regional Planning
Initiatives
• Making planning data layers available to
others (local, State and Federal) helps to keep
planning organizations using the same base
data

41. OPSS Supports Regional Planning
Initiatives
• OPSS data can help organizations collaborate on cross-
border projects by lowering the data collection needs
for those projects.

42. OPSS Supports Regional Planning
Initiatives
• The Online Planning Support System (OPSS)
includes many kinds of geographic data sets
that MVRPC uses for various planning
activities

43. GIS Online Planning Support System-
GIS OPSS

44. Web Applications–
Traffic Count Viewer
• Collects traffic counts from a variety of agencies
• Accessible through ArcIMS application from
website
• http://maps.mvrpc.org/traffic/viewer.htm

45. Web Applications–
Traffic Count Viewer

46. Web Applications–
Project Evaluation System (PES)
• MVRPC uses the PES to evaluate and rank
transportation projects submitted for Regionally
controlled funding
• This interactive PES application allows project
sponsors to complete the PES ranking for their
project applications.

47. Web Applications–
Project Evaluation System (PES)

48. Web Applications –
Web TELUS
• Online application to allow you to search, query
and view maps of current Transportation
Improvement Program (TIP) projects
• Includes a database query application to find
information about projects in the current TIP,
and a mapping GIS application to let you find
projects near your neighborhood.
• http://maps.mvrpc.org/telus/WebTelus/Login:Lo
ginPublic

49. Web Applications –
Web TELUS

50. Web Applications–
Web TELUS
Connected to tabular data

51. 3D Applications

52. Modeling Software
INDEX planning support software
CommunityViz software
Housing Proximity to
Amenity (grocery)
Use Mix
Housing Proximity to
Transit Stops
Pedestrian Route
Directness
Walk distance
versus
straight line
distance

53. New Online Solutions
• MVRPC’s Web Map Gallery
• Census Mapping application
• Regional Resource group online

54. Web Applications–
Web Map Gallery

55. Web Applications–
http://www.mvrpc.org/mapgallery/

56. Web Applications–
Census Mapping Application

57. Web Applications–
Census Mapping Application

58. Web Applications–
http://www.mvrpc.org/resources/resource-
center/census-2010-regional-profile

59. Web Applications–
Regional Resource Group

60. Web Applications–
Regional Resource Group

61. Other web resources:
• Data
– National Historical GIS (nhgis.org)
– Huduser.org
• The NHGIS provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and
GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between
1790 and 2010.
• Teams with the US Postal Service to collect vacancy data (both
residential and commercial).

62. – Univ of Virginia Historical Census Browser
(mapserver.lib.virginia.edu/)
– Social Explorer (www.socialexplorer.com)
• Books
– Planning Support Systems: Integrating geographic
information systems, models, and visualization
tools by R. K. Brail and R. E. Klosterman, editors
• Software
– CommunityViz (placeways.com/communityviz)
– Index Planning Support Software (www.crit.com)

63. • Prioritizing data
• Scrubbing data
• Isolating data, if necessary
Challenges:

64. • Easier data sharing
– Traffic counts, Project
information, Data sets
• Better and more efficient
decision making
– PES, LRTP, Going Places
Benefits:

65. • Increase data sets
• Continue migration to Server
• Expand groups to include
more users and their data
Future Plans:

66. Thank You!
Questions?
Martin Kim
mkim@mvrpc.org
937.223.6323
Andrew Aidt
Andrew.aidt@ketteringoh.org
937.296.2436
Tom Harner
tharner@mvrpc.org
937.223.6323