Durango Comprehensive Plan

Donley & Associates creates CommunityViz Analysis for the City of Durango

Video showing how to use Google Earth to view the Comprehensive Plan alternatives on YouTube.com .

A series of slides illustrate the patterns of growth in La Plata County in Durango.  The sliderbar at the top identifies the year, the red dots show year built of houses, the charts summarize the totals.  Note the pie chart illustrates the growth of the areas outside Durango.  

1960                                                        1970                                                         1980

1990                                                        2000                                                        2005

The fire response analysis compared fire station locations with the 3 alternative scenarios.  The "2030" fire station plan included a station near WalMart.  Note the number of dwelling units in each scenario with response times in excess of 4 minutes, the preferred response time. 

By replacing the proposed WalMart site with stations in La Posta (south) and Ewing Mesa (east) the response times improve significantly.  The analysis used CommunityViz with Network Analyst (ESRI extension). 

Assessment of impacts from future land use plans on infrastructure studies (water, wastewater, and traffic). 

Illustration of the tiling exercise used for January 2006 workshops. 

A visualization depicts Ewing Mesa and BODO build-out. 

A site selection model weighs different constraints to development.  These include geologic hazards, wildlife habitat, oil/gas wells, shrink/swell soils, airpark approach zones, and skyline potential. 

The Grandview area build-out is visualized.