Clear Vision of Eau Claire (confluence project)
Goal and Background:
The goal of this lab is to become familiar with the Eau Claire district confluence project. The project was voted on by the members of the Eau Claire county and city. The Project is to develop two buildings along with public parking ramp to amplify and revitalize the old downtown area. The buildings will mainly be built to benefit the local community with bettering the education and presentation of musical and theater. It will also provided housing for a few students at the University of Eau Claire who is one of the major contributors to the project. The goal of assignment is to show all the different aspects that where looked during the planning of the confluence project, such as voting regions, zoning, and others.Methods
The overall purpose was to build six maps that portrayed different aspects needed to show the public the location and the surrounding attributes of the area.First we needed to located and make the proposed site known. Using the PLSS and the parcel data from the county data base we where able to single out and highlight the two prospected area including 128 Graham Ave, and 202 Eau Claire St parcels. Once we had created this data set we then could incorporate the data in each of the six maps to give a general overview to someone where the buildings would be placed along with a brief legal description. All of the following base maps have a base layer of the world imagery map overlaying the natural area of Eau Claire to show the natural features near the project.
Objective one: Civil Districts
This map included and incorporated the civil distinctions in the city of Eau Claire. Once placing the districts and the parcels over one another, you can get a general idea that the buildings will be built in the heart of what is known as the old downtown area. To fully get an idea of where we placed the premade prospected site layer into the map with clear labeling to show where exactly within the township the site can be found.
Objective two: Census Boundaries
The second map shows a gradient of population based on square miles. This was accomplished by overlaying the block and tracts group from the county data base. The overall map shows wonderful perspective of how dense the area is where the project is going to be carried out as well as the density of the surrounding areas to show how beneficial the project maybe.
Objective Three and Four:
Both of these maps where not as in-depth as the previous two but are just as important none the less. The both incorporate the use of the Public Land Survey System to show both where the prospected site is and the parcel that they lie on. In order to fulfill this task in the third map or the parcel map we first needed to overlay the parcel and the centerlines of the roads over the base map. After we highlighted the near by water to show relative location on the parcel. The fourth map is very similar but in stead on parcels and centerlines it shows where the parcel is located in relevance to the PLSS(Public Land Survey System).
Objective Five:
Map five shows the zoning classes of the Eau Claire city, It focusses mostly on the area closest to the proposed site. We succeded in showing this by placing the projected site overlaying on the zoning class shown as unique value color graph. representing the different classes with separate colors.
Objective six:
The final map in this base map layout shows the voting districts in the emidiate surrounding area of the proposed site. It was accomplished by overlaying both the voting areas and the proposed site over the base map, with numerically labeled voting districts.
Results:
Figure 1.1
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After completing and interpreting the maps we can not conclude any overlaying details within the maps. However, we can see a few notes that stand out. A few being that the main location of the proposed site will be located in the 31 district of the voting. We can also see that the main location of the sites will be in a commercial zoning area and not bother many residential homes with the building or post production activities. Lastly we can see that the general build of the site will be in a very centralized area and can be of great importance to the town and the people who thrive on the towns production.
Sources:W:\geog\CHupy\geog335_s14\lab\lab1: 2009-07-13_EauClaire.gdb and City of Eau Claire.gdb
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