City of San Antonio Sustainable Neighborhood Planning Tool (PLACE3S)
1. Sustainable Neighborhoods
Planning Tool
Project prepared for the City of San Antonio’s
Office of Environmental Policy
Hazem Rashed-Ali, Ph.D.
Chunlin Lin - Halit Beyaztas
Texas Trails & Active Transportation
Conference
Texas Bike/Ped Summit • February 1-3, 2012 · San Antonio, TX
2. PROJECT OBJECTIVES
• Implementing the INDEX GIS‐based planning
software in the city of San Antonio,
• Identifying and measuring different sustainability
performance indicators across the city,
• Supporting planning efforts to reduce energy and
water consumption, vehicle miles of travel,
pollution emissions (including greenhouse gas
emissions), and the carbon footprint of the city,
• Quantifying other sustainability metrics as needed.
3. THE INDEX TOOL
• INDEX PlanBuilder is an interactive
GIS-based planning support system
designed to assist in community
planning and development,
• INDEX PlanBuilder includes capabilities
for:
– Measurement of existing conditions,
– Creation of future scenarios,
– Evaluation of alternatives, and
– Implementation of adopted plans.
• INDEX can calculate 89 indicators in
the following categories:
- Demographics - Recreation
- Land Use - Environment
- Housing - Travel
- Employment - Climate Change
12. METHODOLOGY
• DATA COLLECTION:
- CITY OF SAN ANTONIO PLANNING DEPARTMENT - MPO
- BCAD - SAWS
- VIA - CPS (pending)
• IDENTIFICATION OF TARGET NEIGHBORHOODS
• DATA PROCESSING:
-INDEX READ SPECIFIC FORM OF GIS DATA
• INDICATOR SELECTION:
• SETTING TRESHOLDS for EACH INDICATOR:
• EXISTING / FUTURE CONDITIONS SCENARIO
• GENERATING NUMERICAL AND SPATIAL RESULTS
13. APPLICATION
• MODEL DEVELOPMENT / INDICATOR SELECTION
– Forty indicators selected for evaluation for different city
neighborhoods
• MODEL VALIDATION / IMPLEMENTATION ON TARGET
AREAS
Downtown Loop (Downtown / Lavaca / King William / Lone Star /
Collins Garden
• CITY-WIDE IMPLEMENTATION (Pending)
• Web Site Design (Pending)
15. CURRENT STATUS
• Iden%fy
indicators
and
collect
data
Completed,
• Collect
GIS
data
Completed
• Prepare
GIS
data
for
processing
for
all
city
neighborhoods,
Completed,
• Running
INDEX
for
all
city
neighborhoods
On
going.
• Develop
web
interface
On
going
16. MODEL VALIDATION
INTERNAL
STREET
CONNECTIVITY
STONE
OAK
AREA
WESTSIDE
DISTRICT
0.71
cul-‐de-‐sac/intersec%on
ra%o
0.90
cul-‐de-‐sac/intersec%on
ra%o
17. MODEL VALIDATION
PEDESTRIAN
NETWORK
COVERAGE
STONE
OAK
AREA
WESTSIDE
DISTRICT
40.8%
of
streets
w/sidewalks
91.9%
of
streets
w/sidewalks
18. MODEL VALIDATION
TRANSIT
SERVICE
COVERAGE
STONE
OAK
AREA
WESTSIDE
DISTRICT
2.0
stops
per
square
mile
52.7
stops
per
square
mile
19. MODEL VALIDATION
TRANSIT
SERVICE
DENSITY
STONE
OAK
AREA
WESTSIDE
DISTRICT
19.3
vehicle
route
mi/day/sqmi
284.4
vehicle
route
mi/day/sqmi
20. MODEL VALIDATION
TRANSIT
ADJACENCY
TO
HOUSING
STONE
OAK
AREA
WESTSIDE
DISTRICT
15%
of
pop
w/i
user
buffer
97.6%
of
pop
w/i
user
buffer
21. MODEL VALIDATION
TRANSIT
ADJACENCY
TO
EMPLOYMENT
STONE
OAK
AREA
WESTSIDE
DISTRICT
61.3%
of
pop
w/i
user
buffer
99.4%
of
pop
w/i
user
buffer
36. DOWN TOWN NEIGHBORHOODS
Internal Street Connectivity
King
William
Lavaca
Collins
Gardens
Downtown
Roosevelt
Park
Lone
Star
37. DOWN TOWN NEIGHBORHOODS
Transit Proximity to Housing
King
William
Lavaca
Collins
Gardens
Downtown
Roosevelt
Park
Lone
Star
38. DOWN TOWN- COMPARISON
Comparison of Sub-Neighborhoods in the Downtown Area
Downtown
Neighborhoods
Comparison
Overall
Score
for
all
Indicators
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
King
William
Lavaca
DT
District
Downtown
Lone
Star
Roosvelt
Gardens
Non_Neighb
Collins
Park
orhood
48. Acknowledgment
We would like to thank the
“City of San Antonio’s Office of
Environmental Policy”
for providing finding for this project and for their continuing
support for its development and implementation
49. Thank you
• For further information:
Hazem Rashed-Ali, Ph.D.
Department of Architecture, UTSA
hazem.rashedali@utsa.edu
210-458-3088
