Welcome to What if?™ 2.0

What if? 2.0 is an easy-to-use GIS-based planning support system (PSS) that can be used to explore alternate futures for a community. It can be used to prepare long-term land use, population, housing and employment projections for enumeration districts, political jurisdictions, and user-defined areas such as school districts, and traffic analysis zones. The package is easy to use, customized to the user’s GIS data and policy issues, and provides outputs in easy-to-understand maps and tables.

Waht if?

As its name suggests, What if? allows planners, public officials, stake holders, and private citizens to determine determining what would happen if public policy choices are made and assumptions about the future prove to be true. Policy choices that can be considered in the model include:

  1. (1) the expansion of public infrastructure;
  2. (2) the implementation of farmland or open space protection policies, and;
  3. (3) the adoption of land use plans, zoning ordinances, and other growth controls.

 

Assumptions that can be considered in the model include future population and employment trends and development densities.

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