Use-case scenarios
Parcel data can be powerful information for municipal leadership and can help provide transparency in the decision making process. Parcel data can also be extremely helpful for strategic code enforcement and being proactive rather than reactive. Below are a couple use-case scenarios for where a parcel survey could help.
Scenario #1: Community leadership wants to invest in a new greenspace project and wonders what impact that project will have on the surrounding neighborhood. A neighborhood survey could be conducted prior as well as after to see if changes result to the condition of the surrounding housing stock.
Scenario #2: A developer is looking for a favorable location for infill development of a new single family home on a vacant lot. A community inventory would provide the developer with information about the property conditions not only of their development site but about the houses in vicinity of the new build. This could also help the developer choose between several sites within the community.
Scenario #3: Illegal dumping on vacant property is starting to become a problem in parts of the community where federal funds were used to demolish vacant or abandoned homes that could not be sold at the foreclosure auction. In some instances demolitions included removal of a curb cut and in other instances the curb cut was left in place. A survey of vacant property for evidence of a curb cut and looking for visible trash or illegal dumping on a vacant lot could help provide leadership with data to decide if removal of existing curb cuts on vacant land is a worthwhile investment.
In addition, the survey would provide information on where illegal dumping is taking place so that cleanup resources could be directed and anti-dumping measures such as cameras, bollards, trees, and more, could be employed.
Scenario #4: A local church or service organization is looking to buy a land bank owned property that has had the homesite demolished but they want a site that has a garage or outbuilding that is still standing to use as a tool shed for a community garden. A community survey would identify those sites so that land bank staff are able to give that group accurate information.
Scenario #5: Community leadership wants to know information about the housing stock in their area. They need to know about home maintenance conditions and have questions about if houses rated in poor condition are concentrated in one particular area. They intend to use this information to be proactive in their code enforcement and work with those homeowners in order to prevent home conditions from worsening and becoming hazardous or abandoned. A parcel survey would provide leaders with this information.
Parcel data can be powerful information for municipal leadership and can help provide transparency in the decision making process. Parcel data can also be extremely helpful for strategic code enforcement and being proactive rather than reactive. Below are a couple use-case scenarios for where a parcel survey could help.
Scenario #1: Community leadership wants to invest in a new greenspace project and wonders what impact that project will have on the surrounding neighborhood. A neighborhood survey could be conducted prior as well as after to see if changes result to the condition of the surrounding housing stock.
Scenario #2: A developer is looking for a favorable location for infill development of a new single family home on a vacant lot. A community inventory would provide the developer with information about the property conditions not only of their development site but about the houses in vicinity of the new build. This could also help the developer choose between several sites within the community.
Scenario #3: Illegal dumping on vacant property is starting to become a problem in parts of the community where federal funds were used to demolish vacant or abandoned homes that could not be sold at the foreclosure auction. In some instances demolitions included removal of a curb cut and in other instances the curb cut was left in place. A survey of vacant property for evidence of a curb cut and looking for visible trash or illegal dumping on a vacant lot could help provide leadership with data to decide if removal of existing curb cuts on vacant land is a worthwhile investment.
In addition, the survey would provide information on where illegal dumping is taking place so that cleanup resources could be directed and anti-dumping measures such as cameras, bollards, trees, and more, could be employed.
Scenario #4: A local church or service organization is looking to buy a land bank owned property that has had the homesite demolished but they want a site that has a garage or outbuilding that is still standing to use as a tool shed for a community garden. A community survey would identify those sites so that land bank staff are able to give that group accurate information.
Scenario #5: Community leadership wants to know information about the housing stock in their area. They need to know about home maintenance conditions and have questions about if houses rated in poor condition are concentrated in one particular area. They intend to use this information to be proactive in their code enforcement and work with those homeowners in order to prevent home conditions from worsening and becoming hazardous or abandoned. A parcel survey would provide leaders with this information.