Final Project: Identify Locations with Special Circumstances
for Informational Campaign
This
final project involved performing location analysis of American Survey
Community block groups in the City of Oxnard, Ventura County, California with
special circumstances (selected criteria) to be considered in the crafting of
an information campaign for a new citywide tax district. The selected criteria included:
·
Areas
far from City Hall.
·
Areas
far from City maintenance yard.
·
Areas
with a large population.
·
Areas
with a high rate of population below the poverty line.
·
Areas
with a high rate of limited English language proficiency.
The
location analysis included the use of the Weighted Overlay tool resulted in two
maps representing all criteria individually, all criteria weighted equally
against each other, and the poverty and limited English criteria preferred over
other criteria.
Final
Thoughts:
The
project was interesting and applicable to the work I do as a consultant
assisting public agencies to create and manage tax districts. I am satisfied with the results. In hindsight, I would have liked to have used
more current data (instead of 2013) and if possible it could have been obtained
privately at extra costs. The next
deliverable on this project would have been a close up version of the selected
ACS block groups with suggested locations for public informational meetings
nearby such as public schools. This
analysis could be performed with network analyst to determine the most
accessible locations for the meetings within or near the selected ACS block
groups.
Great
class! Learned a lot, but I am looking
forward to the break between Summer and Fall semesters – I am happy to have my
weekends back!
Link
to my final project presentation is found below:
