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Use and Implications of GIS in a Regional Visioning Process
Track: State and Local Government
Author(s): Iris Patten, Margaret Carr

Over the next 50 years the vast projected population increase will present several challenges to the East Central Florida region. These challenges include pursuing opportunities associated with competing in the global economy, protecting environmental and agricultural resources, and developing a transportation plan that will address expected demand. The Land Use Conflict Identification Strategy (LUCIS), developed by Margaret Carr and Paul Zwick, employs role playing and suitability modeling to predict areas where future land use conflict will likely occur. Carr and Zwick's findings for the myregion.org regional visioning process are illustrated in the first part of this presentation. Applying LUCIS resulted in an illustration of development patterns and provided a means to distinguish the driving forces behind the outcome, given specific policy decisions and assumptions. The second part of this presentation modified the LUCIS strategy by incorporating a more detailed economic analysis, which included indicators of Richard Florida's Creative Class, to determine whether the East Central Florida region has suitable environments for creative industries. Creative industries attract occupations that are high-quality, high-earning, and service oriented (also known as Creative Occupations). Using projections of new employment for creative industries through 2050, this study allocates employment centers and distributes employment resulting in a sustainable development plan that accommodates highly skilled workers and maximizes the economic potential of the region. This presentation explains how the outcomes of both mapping exercises provide a pathway to answer the question "What should be done in order to make a regional vision work and participate in a global economy".

Iris Patten
University of Florida
Urban and Regional Planning
1126 SW 2nd Avenue, ##1
Gainesville , FL 32601
US
Phone: 813-205-5211
Fax: 727-499-7161
E-mail: ipatten@ufl.edu

Margaret Carr
GeoPlan - University of Florida
431 ARCH building
Gainesville , FL 32611
US
Phone: 352-392-6098
E-mail: mcarr@ufl.edu