Batavia unveils interactive downtown occupancy dashboard; council asks for more data
City staff demonstrated a new dashboard that maps ground-floor commercial occupancy downtown and found vacancy under 11%. Councilmembers asked for additional layers — length of vacancy, prior occupant type, residential overlays and parking/land-use breakdowns — and staff said the tool will remain a live, adaptable product.
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Batavia city staff presented an interactive downtown occupancy dashboard to the Committee of the Whole on Oct. 28, showing ground-floor commercial occupancy, partial occupancy and vacant parcels in the downtown mixed-use zone. The presentation — led by Anthony (city staff) with GIS work by Mike Kamen — translated previously paper-based vacancy tallies into a map and filterable charts.
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