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Workforce/Economic Development GIS

San Jose WorkForce Development "GeoMapper"

An interactive Flash GIS Interface developed as a powerful, robust tool for workforce development and planning for the County of Santa Clara (the heart of Silicon Valley). The website includes dynamic thematic mapping of "Time Series" databases, including the "National Employment Time Series" from 1990 through the present, the Association of Bay Area Goverments "Jobs and Housing projections" and Census Databases. The site features detailed interactive printable/exportable economic and demographic profiles of any selected census geography or city-defined boundary. It also features multi-criteria searching. Client is the City of San Jose "Work2Future" Division of the Economic Development Agency.

Capitola Property Info Website

An easy-to-use interactive Flash GIS Interface developed as an affordable on-line "enterprise GIS" for a small city, to promote economic development via tourism and marketing of commercial space and activiites to Capitola's local community. Site features interactive thematic maps, aerial photos, dynamic geo-coding, multi-criteria searches, context analysis, detailed site information, "Photo Tours," searches by event or amenity, and the ability to toggle layers by business type. Client is the City of Capitola.

Oakland Explorer

An interactive Flash GIS website to promote economic development opportunities in Oakland, Ca. Client was the Oakland Community and Economic Development Agency, Oakland, CA.

R.O.A.M Buffalo

An interactive Flash GIS website to promote neighborhood economic development opportunities in Buffalo, NY. Website incorporates streaming video. Client was the Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corporation, Buffalo, NY.

Explore San Mateo

The site received the 2001 International Economic Development Council and 2001 American Economic Development Council Best of Class Awards. Client was the San Mateo Economic Development Agency, San Mateo, CA.

City Planning/Urban Design GIS Tools

InfoAlameda Community Planning Website

A powerful, yet easy-to-use interactive County-wide Flash GIS Interface which displays a variety of demographic, economic and health-related data across a variety of scales from block-group up to County-wide, enabling users to easily compare geographies to each other. A very powerful tool for planning, economic development and community development. Client is “InfoOakland," www.infooakland.org, a collaborative sponsored by the Urban Strategies Council that includes nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and higher education institutions.

San Jose Fiscal Impact Modeling Tool

An interactive Flash-based GIS interface to find potential redevelopment sites and then test the fiscal and land use implications of various zoning policy scenarios on these sites. Clients were Strategic Economics and the San Jose Redevelopment Agency, San Jose, CA.

San Francisco Growth Illustrator

An interactive web-based GIS tool that uses Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) Projections data to model the impact of various policy decisions across time. Interactive maps display potential changes in location of households and jobs across a 20 year period for 3 different zoning scenarios. Data and assumptions can be exported. Client was the San Francisco Planning Department, San Francisco, CA.

San Francisco Better Neighborhoods 2002

An interactive ARCIMS GIS web tool to test land use zoning scenarios based on economic development and urban design criteria. The tool was especially interested in testing the "PDR -- Production, Distribution, Repair" activity in industrial buildings to determine if/how they should be re-used. The tool was paramount to creating a re-zoning plan that balanced new housing with industrial uses. Clients were Strategic Economics and the San Francisco Planning Department, San Francisco, CA.

Rincon Hill 3-D Massing Analysis

3-D GIS simulation of height and bulk zoning control alternatives for an area in Downtown San Francisco being re- zoned to accommodate high-rise residential towers. Developed 3-D Flash-based web viewers for the alternatives. Clients were the UC/Berkeley Simulation Laboratory, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, San Francisco Planning Department, San Francisco, CA.

San Francisco Transbay Terminal Redevelopment Plan

3-D GIS simulation of height and bulk zoning control alternatives for an area in Downtown San Francisco being re-zoned to accommodate several thousand new housing units in a mixed-use development featuring high-rise residential and office towers. The plan was awarded the Urban Design Award from the San Francisco Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Clients were the UC/Berkeley Simulation Laboratory, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, San Francisco Planning Department, San Francisco, CA.

San Francisco Beautiful Grants and Awards Search Tool

An interactive Flash-based GIS interface to display the various grants and awards for phsyical improvements throughout San Francisco's neighborhoods. The Grants and Awards Search Tool is part of the re-design of the www.sfbeautiful.org website. Client was San Francisco Beautiful, San Francisco, CA.
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