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Abstract
Using GIS to Track General Plan ComplianceTrack: State and Local Government
Author(s): Melanie Beck
GIS was used to quantitatively assess and map compliance with policies of the land use element in the Malibu/Santa Monica Mountains Interim Area Plan within Calabasas during 1980–91. More than half of the tracts in Calabasas were approved in the 1980s and cover two-thirds of the City's developed area. Half the tracts were approved for at least twice the maximum density and one-third were five to 12 times over maximum. Development approvals urbanized an area envisioned by the Area Plan as rural. The L.A. Times subsequently used the GIS methodology to investigate development approvals throughout the Santa Monica mountains.
Melanie Beck
National Park Service
401 W. Hillcrest Dr.
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
USA
Phone: (805)370-2346
Fax: (805)370-1850
E-mail: melanie_beck@nps.gov