Welcome to the Plan-IT Wyoming Web Site!
The Mission of Plan-IT Wyoming is to help Wyoming communities build capacity to benefit from geographic information systems and planning support tools.
What are planning support systems?
Software tools that bring together mapped information about a community (land use, zoning, transportation, water and sewer, telecommunications, environmental constraints, etc...) in a flexible mapping environment where decision makers can focus discussion in a way that allows for a better evaluation of costs, benefits, and impacts of alternative community planning decisions.
What is
CommunityViz®?
CommunityViz is a powerful decision-support framework that offers users
the ability to:
-Create and analyze alternative land-use scenarios.
-Visualize alternatives in two and three dimensions.
How can
CommunityViz help communities with economic development and land use
planning?
CommunityViz software tools combine the functionality of mapping
programs with the analysis capabilities of spreadsheet applications.
Differences between alternative land use scenarios are evaluated and
quantified based on indicators that are defined and prioritized by the
community. For example:
-What will the difference in cost of community services be if a new
business park is located along a major interstate interchange versus a
location nearer to the downtown business district?
-How will traffic volume be impacted by
alternate housing densities (e.g., dispersed, uniform, clustered) in
proposed subdivisions within an urban growth boundary?
For a first hand look at planning support system enabled impact analysis, click here for a demo of CommunityViz webshots. New! July 19, 2010 See Also:
Making Smart Growth Smarter with GeoDesign
Modeling Downtown Parking Requirements with Planning Support Systems in Sheridan, Wyoming.
From The Western Planner Volulme 29, Number 3, April/May 2008
Detailed product information on the CommunityViz planning support system
