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PROXIMITY TO CITY LIMITS |
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JUSTIFICATION FOR USE: |
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Another assumption we made was that development should occur near the existing urban areas or city limits. We came to this assumption for two reasons. First, natural market pressure tends to locate new development near existing urban areas, and second, development near the existing cities results in a more compact development pattern which reduces the impact on the Ichetucknee Basin. |
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PROCESS: |
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This information layer was available to us in a digital format from the Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL), which is a storehouse of information maintained by the Geoplan Center at the University of Florida and available to users of GIS technology for analysis. While we got the data from FGDL, it is important to note they were not the creators of this information layer. This information layer, or coverage showed the all of the city boundaries in the tri-county area as they currently exist. We created a new coverage by creating distance buffers around the city limits and assigning higher values to those areas closest to the city and lower values as one moves farther away. We reclassified all of these values into one of three categories: |
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This classification format was used for all of the different information layers that our group created and analyzed. The reclassification was done so as to maximize the relative differences in susceptibility of each area. In other words, all of the category "1" areas have similar characteristics and are significantly different from the other two categories. The same holds for each of the other two categories as well. |
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RESULTS: |
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The result of our reclassification is a map that shows the three county area with each of the resultant three classifications which we created shaded a different color. This map then became one of many different information layers that were weighted and combined to give us our Residential and Commercial Intermediate Suitability Maps. |
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