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The details of the steps taken to
complete the analysis can be seen in the Cartographic
Model.
The areas in this map do not
fall in the Agricultural Land Reserve, areas of undevelopable land, or in
stream setbacks. Only the areas in black may be developed so they are
the only ones that may be considered for the study. This map was
created by overlaying maps of areas not found in the ALR, waterways, or
undevelopable land.
The areas in
green lie in proximity to major and minor routes, schools, and developed
areas. With the green areas being the most suited to development,
Walnut Grove,
My analysis
resulted in a high suitability for urbanization in the A comparison of this spatial
analysis to
This map shows
the results of ranking the
grid cells according to suitability for urbanization. It can be seen
that the two largest areas in the MCE map above show up as the highest
ranked areas (the largest green areas) for development.