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Project Goal

The GIS Toolbox is one section of the Community Lots website, designed as an online information source for community-based organizations (CBOs). The information is specifically tailored for the needs and concerns of CBOs that realize the importance of GIS, and want to learn more about GIS applications for community planning, and for assessing, evaluating and monitoring land (re) development projects and policies in their communities.
Several well-documented applications include tracking neighborhood change (physical, social, environmental and economic); assessing alternatives for placing affordable housing; identifying development opportunities as part of community improvement projects; (re)evaluating policies and practices in unwanted land uses in minority neighborhoods; (re)developing vacant parcels and brownfields; developing greenfields; implementing transit and transportation projects; and assessing the distribution of land holdings.

This site also sponsors a Forum for “peer-to-peer” exchange that allows users to post questions and obtain answers from others who are or have experienced challenges such as data identification and inventory needs and sharing and centralization of data through resource centers or other intermediaries.

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Development Team Biography

- Rosalind Greenstein, Senior Fellow and Co-Chair, Dept. of Planning and Development, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA

- Ann-Margaret Esnard, Faculty Associate, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy & Associate Professor and Director of Visual Planning Technology Lab, Florida Atlantic University

- Josh Kirschenbaum, Senior Program Associate, PolicyLink

- Milton Ospina, Urban & Regional Planning and Economic Development Solutions Manager, ESRI

- Manny Rivero, Executive Director, University of South Florida Jim Walter Partnership Center

- Trish Settles, Executive Director, Marlborough Community Development Corporation

- Michelle M. Thompson, real estate research and education consultant, Faculty Associate, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

- Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz, Research Associate, Dept. of Planning and Development, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA

- Harini Venkatesh, Research Assistant, Dept. of Planning and Development, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA

- Dennis Robinson, Vice President of Finance and Operations, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA

- Bruce Cornett, Web designer