City of Westminster, CO
Visualization of Grange Redevelopment Projects in Google Earth
Modeled photo real buildings in SketchUp and then exported them to Google Earth. View the project in Cities in Development.
The Palmer Land trust serves southeast Colorado, conserving over 80 easements with 50,000 acres of land. The Trustees seek to prioritize future acquisitions, focusing on scenic landscapes, prime habitat and urban recreation. The volunteer board needs visual tools for identifying land trust values and assessing specific lands. Google Earth with CommunityViz provides a venue for visualizing the location and character of the land.
Strategic Plan, Easement Evaluation, Stewardship and Development
Regional maps using GIS layers illustrate various issues. By scoring the layers, the land trust can prioritize lands. Overlaying these prioritized areas with specific conservation requests can guide acquisition evaluations. Land stewards can preview lands at home prior to their visits. Google Earth provides itemized lists of every easement; selection takes the viewer to the virtual location. Assessment of conservations values prior to site visit. Identify strategic initiatives priority, determine proximity to other easements, overlay conservation values and identify scenic impact. Preview easement location for new stewards. Illustrate easement character and conservation values. Depict building envelopes and improvements. Locating property lines can identify potential encroachment. Overlay more recent or higher resolution aerials to identify potential easement violations.
Colorado Springs, CO
T-Gap Storage LLC. v. Hanson re: 7085 Templeton Gap Road
Prepared and presented exhibits for District Court involving removal of fill materials. The Google Earth presentation illustrated the site location and aerial over the past 5 years. The analysis compared geotechnical illustrations with the proposed site plan by varying the sheet transparency.
Mount Crested Butte, Colorado
Google Earth Model of Ski Village
Created SketchUp models of 36 existing and proposed buildings. Placed models on Google Earth. Many models selected as "Best of 3D Warehouse" and thus appear a 3D buildings in Layers. Planning staff uses the models to evaluate project proposals. Recognized as a Cities in Development by Google Earth. Visit the Mount Crested Butte Collection at http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/. Or go to 81225 in Google Earth and turn on 3D Buildings in Layers.
Before and after construction of the proposed Cimarron Building.
Up on the hill to the west and looking south.
Northerly views up valley.
Looking east toward the ski mountain.
Tacoma, Washington
Site Selection for Economic Development
Teamed with the GIS staff in Tacoma' Economic Development Office to create a model identifying potential locations for new businesses. The system uses weighted site selection criteria and proposed land use to highlight specific parcels. Factors included traffic, population, income, land value and crime. The parcels are represented by points to improve performance. Colors range from green (not appropriate) to yellow to red (best). The assumption drop down box shows the desired land use as tax advantaged multi-family and this corresponds to the blue shaded area. Note that parcels outside this blue area are green while those inside are yellow to red.
John Day Fossil Beds, Oregon
Visualization for National Park Service
Generated 3D models to illustrate areas of interest for meetings in support of General Management Plan. Stakeholders could visualize the context and extent of the widely dispersed park units. Shown below are the Painted Hills, Clarno and Sheep Rock units. In the images below, yellow fences depict park boundaries and transparent red areas show BLM ownership.
Tyonek Native Corporation, Alaska
Training in Google`Earth Applications
Training and data preparation for visualizations. Combination of webinars and on-site sessions replaced traditional GIS with low cost, but effective spatial analysis.
NFRMPO, Colorado
Employment and Dwelling Unit Projections for North Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organization
Regional model that allocates development to traffic area zones (TAZ). The location of undeveloped parcels are measured from various growth attraction factors (roads, highways, urban areas, hot spots, employment centers and existing development). These proximity results scored based on a 1-10 scale. Parcels are selected based on highest score until the employment or dwelling unit counts match the targets for the region. The results are tallied for each TAZ. These become the inputs for traffic models.
Alder Creek, South Fork, CO
Proposed Townhouse Project
Visualization of development under construction along the Rio Grande River.
Allegheny County (Greater Pittsburgh), PA with McCormick Taylor
Trained McCormick Taylor staff in the use of CommunityViz for regional planning project. Project involved 6 scenarios of growth with projected growth of over 100,000 new residents and 140,000 new jobs. Topics of analysis include, environmental, fiscal, social, transportation, land use, infrastructure, parks and open space. All training performed remotely over the Internet. Within 40 hours of consulting completed the analysis and launched planner into independent use of CommunityViz. Preferred scenario analysis completed in less than 2 hours of work.
Oroville, California
Gravel Pit Visualization
Prepared a 3D-visualization of a proposed gravel extraction facility in northern California. The real-time visualization to assisted decision-makers in the design and approval of the proposed facility. The SiteBuilder3D model depicts the existing conditions, the proposed facility and finished grading. The design placed the pit within a mesa, screening views from the valley floor. The access/haul road was the only proposed feature visible from the valley floor. After reviewing the model the client relocated this road. The reviewing agency approved the plan based in part on the visualizations. Modeled the plan without visiting the site, based on client provided topography, grading plans, building outlines, photos and aerial photography. The client received movies and still shots for use in presentations and project designs.
Florida Mesa, La Plata County, Colorado
Sub-area Impact Analysis
Florida Mesa is southeast of Durango Colorado. Significant residential, commercial and oil/gas development pressure combined with citizen interest in revising the development regulations caused the county to request an impact analysis model. The explores several basic questions about the future of the Florida Mesa Planning District.
The study explored 5 growth scenarios. Charts and tables compared the relative impacts.
Hayden, Colorado
Fiscal, Traffic, Wastewater, Stormwater and Water for Community Plan
Prepared a model that measures the impact of proposed development on the Town of Hayden in northwest Colorado. Proposed development would triple the size of the community, affecting the budget and existing infrastructure. Funding from the Gates Family Foundation and 4S Development, the model evaluates the town budget, traffic, potable water, sewer, and storm water, providing real time assessments of the impacts from specific development proposals. Documentation guides local managers through the process of adding new proposals to the model or changing community assumptions.
Upper Yampa District, Colorado
Expert Witness Build-out Report
Evaluated potential development capacity of the South Routt County drainage for the Yampa River. The City of Steamboat Springs application to the Water Court for Recreational In-Channel Diversions RICD was settled.
Cotton Bridges and Associates Inc., California
Visualization of Claremont Master Plan
Assisted CBA (Pasadena, CA) in preparing SiteBuilder model for the Claremont Master Plan process. Support included conducting on-line training, troubleshooting real time performance and offering 3D "flight files" for placement in the model.
Roberts Design Review
Visualization of Proposed House
Created a 3D model depicting the visual impacts of a proposed house on an existing house. The building model used architectural elevations, footprint and roof design. Surrounding mountainous terrain was combined with higher resolution imagery for surrounding area. Project cost did not exceed $2500.
Mericio Wildfire, CO
Visualization of Burned Area
Identification of extent of wildfire superimposed on private ownership.
Apostle Islands, Wisconsin
Visualization of National Park Service General Management Plan
Prepared visualization of islands and shoreline.
