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projected population at build-out of
423,000 people.
The process developed offers a
methodology to objectively classify
and score features relative to their
overall influence on an area’s capacity
for improvement, and to combine
the quantified weight of those
features into a single indicative score
to determine overall development
suitability.
Using Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) data modeling, the individual
factors were reviewed, ranked, and
scored. Those scores were condensed
to create a composite index score
for each category relative to a given
area. Finally, the scores for all three
categories were averaged together
to create a single value indicative of
overall development suitability.
Findings
The findings of the three analyses (the
natural, built, and policy environments)
and the final composite analysis are
detailed in the following sections.
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