Track: Real Estate
Habitat for Humanity: Using Spatial Data To Plan a Subdivision
Blake SullivanSteve Loveland , Earl Holland, Johnny Nobles
Habitat for Humanity plans to build a subdivision in Sumter County, Georgia, called Easter Morning. One of the goals of Habitat is to make these developments environmentally friendly. Developers of most residential subdivisions remove all vegetation from the site and add most trees after the houses are built. The trees on the Easter Morning site were inventoried early in the planning stage and were spatially located. Habitat identified the trees on the site that it desired to keep and got the engineers to alter plans for roads, water and sewers, house footprints, and utilities before the first earth moving equipment started work on the site. The ability to spatially locate the trees and relate this information to other engineering data ensures that the residual trees will provide esthetic, air, and water quality benefits for the subdivision residents.
Blake Sullivan
Trueline, Inc.
P.O. Box 466
Americus, GA 31709-0466
USA
Telephone: 912-928-4041
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E-mail: bsulliva@americus.net