Housing authority demonstrates interactive land-prioritization map and parcel tracker

Feb 18, 2026

Staff walked the board through an adjustable, widget-driven Esri map and a OneDrive parcel-identification spreadsheet for prioritizing public and private parcels for affordable housing; members discussed conservation easements, water facilities, and potential owners to approach (county, school districts, private developers).

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Staff demonstrated the authority's updated land-prioritization map and a linked parcel-identification spreadsheet, explaining how adjustable weighting (widgets) lets users prioritize attributes such as distance to grocery stores, schools or transit. The map includes filters for conservation easements and shows parcel attributes (owner, acreage, zoning) so board members can annotate 'merits and needs' for candidate parcels.

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