| Overview
In metropolitan
areas with populations over 50,000 people an MPO is required, by federal law,
to coordinate long range transportation planning. As part of this planning MPOs are required
to maintain travel demand forecasting models in order to facilitate the analysis
of current and future transportation demand. Travel demand models require demographic information
as inputs on a Traffic Analysis Zone (TAZ) geography. The inputs vary between models and include
employment by industry, households, income, and as well as other demographic information.
MPOs are required to have a base year inventory of socio-economic data,
as well as future year forecasts for at least 25 years.
The Gainesville Metropolitan Transportation Planning Organization is currently
developing a draft 2007 Base Year Dataset. The
draft data is contained in the following tables and maps. These are preliminary datasets which are subject
to significant revision based on public comments and comments from the Gainesville
MTPO TAC. Please review these figures as
well as the draft SE Data Report and send comments to Jake Petrosky @ petrosky@ncfrpc.org. |
| Draft
SE Data Report
PDF document containing descriptions of the methodologies
used to develop the data. |
| Table
1: Draft Gainesville MTPO 2007 Base Year Socio-economic
Data
This table contains draft
base year data including dwelling units (single family and multi-family), school
enrollment, employment by sector, and hotel units summarized by Extra-territorial
Reserve. |
| Map 1: Municipal Extra-territorial Reserve (ETR)
and TAZ Boundaries
Map showing
the limits of the Extra-territorial Reserves for all municipalities in Alachua
County. Note that the City of Gainesville’s ETR is
actually the approved municipal reserve area, as they have not delineated an ETR.
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| Dwelling Unit Dot Maps These dot maps were created using the
draft 2007 socio-economic data and are meant to depict dwelling unit growth in
Alachua County between 2000 and 2007. |
| Map 2: 2000 Dwelling Unit Dot Map  | Map 3: 2000-2007 Dwelling Unit Growth Dot Map
| Map 4: 2007 Dwelling Unit Dot Map 
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| Thematic Dwelling Unit Maps These maps show total dwelling units
per TAZ in 2000 and 2007, as well as dwelling units per acre in 2007. |
| Map 5: 2000 Dwelling Units 
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Gainesville Metropolitan Transportation Planning Organization (MTPO)