Presentation for the 2016 Miami Valley Planning and Zoning Workshop

1. GIS in the Miami Valley Region – Where
We Are and Where We Are Going
Miami Valley Planning & Zoning Workshop
December 2, 2016

2. A forum and resource where the Board of Directors identifies
priorities and develops public policy and collaborative
strategies to improve quality of life throughout the Miami
Valley Region
Major Areas of Concentration
• Transportation Planning
• Regional Planning
• Environmental Planning

3. MVRPC GIS
• Provide a vital
operating function in
conducting regional
planning activities
• Play a leadership role
offering data and
expertise to local
jurisdictions and the
general public

4. Today’s Topics:
• 2015 GIS Needs Assessment
• Recreational Asset Inventory and Map
• New/Updated Regional GIS Layers
• New Service Focused Projects
• GIS Training
• What’s Next

5. GIS Needs Assessment: BACKGROUND
• PURPOSE
– Identify how GIS is used in the Miami Valley Region and better understand
various needs that exist at the local and regional level
• SURVEY
– First survey was conducted between May 6, 2015 – May 22, 2015 and the
follow-up survey was conducted between July 7, 2015 – July 21, 2015
– Each survey was sent out directly to 126 recipients (GIS professionals
and/or administrators in the local jurisdictions and other regional
organizations) with additional promotion to Southwest Ohio GIS Users
Group members
– A total of 64 participants during the first survey and 45 participants during
the follow-up survey

6. CURRENT GIS USERS
Yes:
94%
No:
6%
Does your
organization
currently
use GIS?
90%
17%
8%
ESRI/ArcGIS
AutoCAD
Intergraph, Maptitude,
and Smallworld
What software do you use?

7. CURRENT GIS USERS
Yes:
94%
No:
6%
Does your
organization
currently
use GIS?
IN THE FUTURE, WE
ANTICIPATE …
•Using Mobile Technology
•Using Web Technology
•More Data Inventory
•More Data Analysis
•Get More Training

8. PUBLIC GIS DATA INTERESTS
What geographic information is requested that
you can’t provide?
• Zoning at the Township level
• Utility Information
• Socioeconomic information at the Community
and Sub-Community levels
8%
13%
13%
17%
23%
53%
55%
72%
Other
Parks/Open Space data
Asset/Inventory data
Socioeconomic data
Public Works data
Utility data
Zoning data
Parcel/Land data
What GIS data are most often
requested from the public?
Other includes: Floodplain Data, Water Resource
Data, and Topographic Data
Other includes: FTP, Hard Copy,
and No Capacity

9. MAP APPS ON THE WEB
Are there any other mapping application(s) that your
organization is interested in pursuing in the future?
• Business Directory
• Parks
• Tableau
• Emergency Management Information
• Infrastructure
• Future Land Use
• Asset Management

10. NO MAP APPS ON THE WEB

11. ARCGIS ONLINE USERS
Other includes:
• Transportation Data
• Fire Defense Zones
• Fiber Networks
• Water Resources

12. NO ARCGIS ONLINE USERS
Yes
74%
No
26%
Are you interested in using ArcGIS
Online for data sharing?

13. PROJECT IDEAS
• Parcel/Land Data Inventory
– Zoning
– Future Land Use
– Vacancies
– Brownfields
– 3D Buildings
• Asset Data Inventory
– Utilities (water, sewer, oil, gas,
electric, gas, cable, etc)
– Community Point of Interest and
Assets
– Recreational Amenities
– Emergency Management
Do you have any ideas or suggestions on what project(s) our region should
pursue?
• Socioeconomic Data Inventory
– Census Demographic
information at the Community
and Sub-Community levels
– Business Directory
• Others
– Training (Desktop, Data
Analysis, Census Data, and
ArcGIS Online, etc)
– Data Resource Catalog (listing
of who has what data)
– Database Standardization

14. • Project 1: Zoning
and Land Use
• Project 2:
Demographic Data
Analysis in GIS
• Project 3:
Professional
Training Program
• Project 4: Regional
Asset Inventory

16. PROJECT IDEAS
• Parcel/Land Data Inventory
– Zoning
– Future Land Use
– Vacancies
– Brownfields
– 3D Buildings
• Asset Data Inventory
– Utilities (water, sewer, oil, gas,
electric, gas, cable, etc)
– Community Point of Interest and
Assets
– Recreational Amenities
– Emergency Management
Do you have any ideas or suggestions on what project(s) our region should
pursue?
• Socioeconomic Data Inventory
– Census Demographic
information at the Community
and Sub-Community levels
– Business Directory
• Others
– Training (Desktop, Data
Analysis, Census Data, and
ArcGIS Online, etc)
– Data Resource Catalog (listing
of who has what data)
– Database Standardization

17. PROJECT IDEAS: PRIORITY RANKING

18. Examines our Region’s
recreational open
spaces that includes:
– General outdoor
recreation areas,
– Natural environment
protection areas, and
– Natural environment
recreation areas

19. Why a Recreational Asset Map?

20. Our Goal:
• Provide a simple, intuitive and easy to use interface for the
casual user to retrieve information quickly about the
whereabouts of different amenities in the Region.

21. Recreational Asset Inventory and Map

22. • Art or Historical
• Small Park • Large Park
Types of Assets Found
• School or Library • Small Park
• Large Park

23. BEFORE:

24. AFTER

25. Fishing
Activities in the Filter Query (an Incomplete List)
Theater
Picnic Shelter Bike Attraction
Playground
Canoeing
Trails
Historic Site
Museum

28. Wish List for Improvements:
Weather:
Air Quality:

29. PROJECT IDEAS
• Parcel/Land Data Inventory
– Zoning
– Future Land Use
– Vacancies
– Brownfields
– 3D Buildings
• Asset Data Inventory
– Utilities (water, sewer, oil, gas,
electric, gas, cable, etc)
– Community Point of Interest and
Assets
– Recreational Amenities
– Emergency Management
Do you have any ideas or suggestions on what project(s) our region should
pursue?
• Socioeconomic Data Inventory
– Census Demographic
information at the Community
and Sub-Community levels
– Business Directory
• Others
– Training (Desktop, Data
Analysis, Census Data, and
ArcGIS Online, etc)
– Data Resource Catalog (listing
of who has what data)
– Database Standardization

30. PROJECT IDEAS: PRIORITY RANKING

31. Updated Regional Layers
• Updated generalized zoning information
• Updated information on jurisdictional
adopted land use plans
• An updated Regional Open Space
Inventory

32. Updated Regional Layers: Zoning
Jurisdictional
zoning was
compiled from
across the Region
and generalized
into several useful
categories,
updating a layer
from 2008

33. Updated Regional Layers: Adopted Land Use
Adopted land use
plans for
jurisdictions
across the
Region were
consulted and
compiled into an
updated version
of a layer
previously
created in 2009

34. Updated Regional Layers: Open Space
The Regional
Open Space
Inventory, first
created in 2005,
was updated
throughout 2015
in conjunction
with the agency’s
recently
published Open
Space Plan

35. MVRPC's Map Gallery

36. New Online Mapping Applications
• Montgomery County
Land Bank
Neighborhood Initiative
Program (NIP)
• City of Trotwood
Zoning

37. Neighborhood Initiative Program
(NIP)
- Provides easy access to common demographic
information for grant applications

38. Neighborhood Initiative Program (NIP)
- Data available at the Block Group, Jurisdiction and
County levels

39. City of Trotwood
- Needed better access to their zoning information

40. City of Trotwood
- Pulled in additional layers from county sources

41. City of Trotwood

42. PROJECT IDEAS
• Parcel/Land Data Inventory
– Zoning
– Future Land Use
– Vacancies
– Brownfields
– 3D Buildings
• Asset Data Inventory
– Utilities (water, sewer, oil, gas,
electric, gas, cable, etc)
– Community Point of Interest and
Assets
– Recreational Amenities
– Emergency Management
Do you have any ideas or suggestions on what project(s) our region should
pursue?
• Socioeconomic Data Inventory
– Census Demographic
information at the Community
and Sub-Community levels
– Business Directory
• Others
– Training (Desktop, Data
Analysis, Census Data, and
ArcGIS Online, etc)
– Data Resource Catalog (listing
of who has what data)
– Database Standardization

43. PROJECT IDEAS: PRIORITY RANKING

44. GIS Training: GIS & the Census
• This training session focused on hands-on learning on how to use Census
data in GIS. It used ArcGIS Online as a platform instead of ArcGIS deskto

45. 26 attendees, 22 of which were from 18 different member organizations.

46. Story Map

47. Continue to provide GIS Services to share data and expertise
with member local jurisdictions and the general public
Major Areas of Concentration
•Customized web mapping applications to address member’s
needs
•Subject-based professional training sessions
•Regional mapping application(s) through collaborative
partnerships
MVRPC GIS – WHAT’S NEXT?

48. MVRPC Shaping Our Region’s
Future Together
Martin Kim, AICP, GISP
mkim@mvrpc.org
Tom Harner, GISP
tharner@mvrpc.org
Kathryn Youra Polk, GISP
kyoura.polk@mvrpc.org
www.mvrpc.org