URP 6271 Homework # 3 Due January 31, 2002

You are working for a planning firm that has been hired to locate a new site for a microchip factory.The site must be within the city limits of La Crosse, a small town located in northern Alachua County.The plans for the factory require that it be built on one complete parcel no less than 30,000 square feet.Because all of the products will be exported by freight truck the factory must also be located within 30 meters of an existing major road. Your client wants you to use a GIS to find a suitable location.

• Start ArcCatalog and navigate to K: Classwork\covers_nad27. Right click on the parcels coverage -> select Properties and click the Projections tab. Notice that the projected coordinate system is NAD_1927_Albers. We will be working with FGDL data which is in a different coordinate system, NAD_1983_HARN_Albers, therefore the parcels coverage will have to be re-projected. For this assignment you will save all outputs to your H: drive. Go to ArcToolbox and re-project the parcels coverage, don’t forget to Build it. (You should remember this from your last homework)

• Start ArcMap and add the parcels coverage that you have just re-projected. Navigate to L:\FGDL\state\data\ -> add the data layers named citylm and majrds. Then navigate to L:\FGDL\county\data\alachua_core and add the cntbnd data. If you right click on one of these layers, select -> Properties -> Source, you will see that they are shapefiles. When you add these data layers you may get a warning message, click OK.

• Go to the GUI (main tool bar) and click Selection -> Set Selectable Layers -> turn everything off except citylm. Next using the Identify button locate the city of La Crosse, then using the Select Features button select only the city of La Crosse. The city limits should be highlighted. Go to your Table of Contents and right click on the citylm layer, -> choose Selection -> Create Layer from Selected Feature. You can now remove (remove by right clicking and selecting Remove) the original citylm layer. Also go to the GUI -> Selection ->Set Selectable Layers, turn all of the layers back on.
• Go to the GUI, choose Selection -> Select by Location. Select Features from -> parcels polygon -> that are contained by the features -> citylm selection -> click apply. Zoom in by drawing a box with the magnifying glass. Next, right click on the parcels polygon layer in the table of contents -> choose Selection -> Create Layer From Selected Features. Now remove the original parcels polygon coverage.
• Zoom in all the way to the city limits and make sure your Majrds layer is the top layer in the table of contents. If it is not select it and drag it to the top. Go to the GUI and click Selection -> Select by Attributes. Set the Layer to: parcels polygon selection. Set the Method to: Create New Selection. In the Fields: box select “Area” (double click), then click on the > and then type in 30,000. You have just queried all of the parcels that are greater than or equal too 30,000 sq. meters. Go to the table of contents and right click on parcels polygon selection, open the attribute table. At the bottom of the table click: show selected records. Only the selected parcels should be visible in blue. Print screen and paste into a word doc, close the table. Next, right click on the parcels polygon selection layer in the table of contents, choose Selection -> Create Layer From Selected Feature. Remove the original parcels coverage.
• Go to the GUI, choose Selection -> Select by Location -> select features in the parcels polygon layer -> that are within a distance of -> the features in majrds -> apply a buffer of 30.00 meters. This will select all parcels that lie within 30 meters of all major roads passing through La Crosse. You have found the suitable locations. Print screen, paste into your word doc and send to Stanley.