Tools for Community Design and Decision Making

							“Tools for Community Design
   and Decision Making”

               Ken Snyder
 Denver Regional Office, US Dept of Energy

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    Dept of Energy Program
       1-800-DOE-EREC
•   Clean Cities       • Building America
•   Bright fields      • Industrial
•   Rebuild America      Assessment Centers
•   Cool Communities   • Weatherization
•   NICE3                Assistance Program
•   Motor Challenge    • State Energy
                         Program

             www.eren.doe.gov
    Dept of Energy Program
       1-800-DOE-EREC
•   Clean Cities       • Building America
•   Bright fields      • Industrial
•   Rebuild America      Assessment Centers
•   Cool Communities   • Weatherization
•   NICE3                Assistance Program
•   Motor Challenge    • State Energy
                         Program

             www.eren.doe.gov
           Challenges Facing
          Metropolitan America

• Sprawl
• Urban
  Disinvestment
• Resource
  Intensive Life
  Style
• Social/Economic
  Inequities



                      CreatingAgricultural Don‟t Consumed
                      80 Family SpendsSense of Communities
                         Million American Land Have
                    Avg.PrimeLossCongestion,of Income a Car
                                Auto a 15% Trade Deficit
                        Pollution, ofDependent Place on Cars
“We make dozens of decisions each week on
projects and issues where the information
presented to us is incomplete. We need „executive
decision making‟ tools that help us quantify and
visualize, in real time, the true impacts of
decisions.”
      -- David Crockett, Chattanooga City Council
In our Efforts to Create
  Healthy, Sustainable
     Communities:
   How Can We Help
Communities Make Better
     Decisions?
      How do we get there?


                                Place
Business

                ?
                                Based
  as                          Community
 Usual                          Dev‟t
           Sea of Knowledge
Place Based Decision Support
          Systems




        Sea of Knowledge
     Decision Support Tools
•   Information Resources
•                 Tools
    Visualization Tools
•   Impact Analysis
•   GIS Modeling
•                       Tools
    Community Process Tools
www.livablecommunities.gov
    Decision Support Tools
• For an up to date overview of the
  tools that were presented at the
  TCSP conference go to
http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/toolkit/TCDDM/
Place Based Decision Support
          Systems




        Body of Knowledge
Bringing it all Together




     Body Knowledge
     Sea ofof Knowledge


        DANGER!
  STRANDED INSPIRATION
                     3
  The PLACE S Planning Process
Step 1: Start Up and Identify
        Existing Conditions
Step 2: Establish Business-as-Usual
        Alternative
Step 3: Analyze Alternative
        Futures
Step 4: Create Preferred
        Alternative
Step 5: Adopt, Implement,
        Monitor, and Revise
    Regional Resource Centers




• Regional Resource Centers can improve both the process and
  outcomes of decision-making...
     Regional Resource Centers

                Interoperability/           Impact
                Interdisciplinary          Analysis/
                                           Modeling

                   Regional
                   Resource
                    Center
Process
 Tools
                                           Virtual
                                          Resource
                                           Center
          Place-based     Visualization