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Abstract
Empowering Citizens by Integrating GIS and the Comprehensive Plan
Track: State and Local Government
Author(s): Katherine Smith, Waverly Evans
Blacksburg, Virginia, for years has been on the leading edge of community-based technology. In 1996, Blacksburg developed a multiaward-winning Comprehensive Plan. Highlights include a 50 year vision, community established neighborhoods, and a digital publicly accessible format with more than a hundred static graphics. Goals were defined during the 2001 Comprehensive Plan revision to increase citizen understanding/use of this important document and accomplished by creating a Web site structure organized around FAQs and interest groups. Interactive links provide direct interface to Blacksburg's existing Web-based GIS. This demonstration will include a live presentation of Blacksburg's 2001 Comprehensive Plan Web site and its interactive GIS functions.
Katherine Smith
Town of Blacksburg, VA
Planning and Engineering
300 South Main Street
P.O. Box 90003
Blacksburg , VA 24062-9003
USA
Phone: 540.961.1126
Fax: 540.951.0672
E-mail: ksmith@blacksburg.gov
Waverly Evans
Anderson & Associates, Inc.
GIS
100 Ardmore St
Blacksburg 24060
USA
Phone: 540.552.5592
Fax: 540.552.5729
E-mail: evans@andassoc.com