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City presents participatory GIS neighborhood survey; 225 responses highlight gaps in historic boundaries
Summary
Morgantown's geospatial services manager presented results from a public neighborhood survey with 225 responses showing divergence between historic mapped boundaries and residents' sense of place; staff plans to run the survey annually and to develop a more flexible, crowd-sourced neighborhood map.
Marvin Davis, the city's Geospatial Services Manager, presented the results of a neighborhood survey at the Jan. 7 Morgantown City Council meeting, reporting that 225 responses returned during a recent public engagement effort showed that many residents identify neighborhood boundaries differently from the city's historic maps.
"Since I started in 2019, the question of what and where are our neighborhoods has been brought up to me repeatedly," Davis told council. He said the survey was an offshoot of the city's recent GIS Day and that he plans to run the survey annually,…
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