This map was generated as part of a final project for the
“Applications in GIS” course. The objective of the project was to determine if the site
selected for a new elementary school in Alachua County (designated as school
‘H’) conformed to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) school siting guidelines. GIS data was downloaded from several sources
to conduct the analysis including: railway, transmission power line, land use,
and major road shapefiles from FGDL,
wetlands data from the National Wetlands Inventory and SJRWMD, digital
elevation data from USGS, 2010 census tract and demographic data from U.S.
Census Bureau, soil data from the National Resource Conservation Service, and
parcel, school zone, existing schools, and Gainesville city limit shapefiles
from the Alachua County GIS Service Center, the Alachua County Department of
Growth Management, and the City of Gainesville.
Assessment results determined that the proposed site did conform to EPA
guidelines. An interactive version of this map can
be accessed at ArcGIS Online at the following link: http://bit.ly/ojZFYR.
