Goal and Background: In this lab, I am working as an intern
at a company named Clear Vision Eau Claire. Clear Vision Eau Claire had just
announced a partnership between local developers, and they intend to construct
a new development at the confluence of the Chippewa River, and the Eau Claire River.
This development, which has been named the “Confluence Project”, plans to break
ground on a new community art center, along with university student housing and
a commercial retail complex. All of which beginning in the year of 2014.
The goal of this project was to prepare a basic report
containing all relevant information and base maps for the Confluence Project.
Methods: To do this lab, many various steps were taken
for each individual map of the confluence project. To begin, all maps contained
a digitized area of the proposed site for the Confluence Project, as well as an
aerial map set in the background.
The first Civil
Divisions map required a layer that showed the municipality of the city of Eau
Claire. To do this, I added in the data frame for civil divisions (already
provided), and changed the colors to easier to see than all orange. To show the
entirety of the city, I had to zoom out quite a ways, which in turn made the
proposed site rather small. I then added a callbox to the proposed site.
For the Census Boundaries map, I had added in
all of the information about census boundaries into a layer, and set a clear
cyan boarder around each section. To help with sorting, I added in the most
recent population layer I had available (2007), and set it to 5 separate sections
for an easy-to-see population grid.
The Public Land
Survey System grid was a bit easier to create. Along with the basic digitizing
of the proposed site and adding in the aerials, adding the PLSS Quarter Quarter
Section and changing it from a filled color to a hollow outline which shows the
land easier was fairly simple.
For the EC City
Parcel Data map, I added the center lines for all roads, the parcel area for
all buildings, and the water layer for each of the rivers. I edited the partial
area to be hollow to show the buildings individually, and made them a color
that is not to overwhelming to look at. The water I made a bit transparent to
be able to see the shore and sandbars out in the rivers from the aerial layer.
The center lines cover up quite a bit of space when making them large, so I
kept them at a visible blue color which goes well with the lime green of the
parcel area.
When creating the
Zoning layer, I had placed the zoning classes on the map, and made them
transparent to be able to see them. My next step was to go into properties and
configure the layers together, so there were not 15 individual residential or 9
separate commercial colors on the map. After combining the correct zones, I
renamed them to their full names instead of symbols, and picked separate colors
for each one. After this, I added in the center lines to the roads, and zoomed
to an appropriate level for this map.
For creating Voting
Districts, I added in the provided layer, and turned amended the label section
to add on numerical labels based on the voting districts. I zoomed out a bit to
show the full extent of the voting district layer, and because of that, I
decided to add another callbox to my map.
After each
individual map was created, I had placed them in an equally measured grid and
labeled each map appropriately. I added legends for each individual map to
explain what each layer meant, and sourced where my information came from at
the bottom. At the end, I looked up the details within the partials online for each of the buildings within the proposed site, and posted my findings below.
PARCEL 1
Parcel Number: 02-0357
PIN: 1822122709200042063
Street Number: 202
Street Name: EAU CLAIRE ST
Owner’s Name: Haymarket Concepts LLC
Owner’s Address: 3506 Oakwood Mall DR
Owner’s City, State, Zip: EAU CLAIRE, WI 54701
Legal Descriptions: LOT
1 AND W 1/2 OF LOT 2 BLK 58 AND A PC OF LAND BEG AT SW COR OF SAID BLK 58 THC W
ON N LN OF EC ST 45 FT THC N PRLL WITH W LN OF SAID BLK 145 FT THC E PRLL WITH
N LN OF SAID BLK 106 1/2 FT THC SLY PRLL WITH W LN OF SAID BLK TO N LN OF LOT 2
OF SAID BLK THC WLY ON THE N LN OF SAID BLK TO N W COR OF SAME OR LOT 1 BLK 58
THC SLY ON W LN OF SAID LOT 1 TO POB AND ALSO THE LAND BETW THE ABOVE DES LAND
AND EC RIVER VILLAGE OF EC TID 8
PARCEL 2
Parcel Number: 02-0357
PIN: 1822122709200042063
Street Number: 202
Street Name: EAU CLAIRE ST
Owner’s Name: Haymarket Concepts LLC
Owner’s Address: 3506 Oakwood Mall DR
Owner’s City, State, Zip: EAU CLAIRE, WI 54701
Legal Descriptions: LOT
1 AND W 1/2 OF LOT 2 BLK 58 AND A PC OF LAND BEG AT SW COR OF SAID BLK 58 THC W
ON N LN OF EC ST 45 FT THC N PRLL WITH W LN OF SAID BLK 145 FT THC E PRLL WITH
N LN OF SAID BLK 106 1/2 FT THC SLY PRLL WITH W LN OF SAID BLK TO N LN OF LOT 2
OF SAID BLK THC WLY ON THE N LN OF SAID BLK TO N W COR OF SAME OR LOT 1 BLK 58
THC SLY ON W LN OF SAID LOT 1 TO POB AND ALSO THE LAND BETW THE ABOVE DES LAND
AN D EC RIVER VILLAGE OF EC TID
Sources: Hemstead, Brenda. PLSS – Legal Descriptions. Retrieved from http://www.sco.wisc.edu/plss/legal-descriptions.html
