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Abstract
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that as much as 44 percent of the nations sewer pipes will be in poor if not very poor conditions by 2020. Many Municipalities sewer infrastructures are coming to an end of an investment cycle and new expenditures in replacing and upgrading, as well as, constructing new infrastructure will be needed. Conditions like these require attentive planning methods. Sewer has the capacity to steer and direct growth when coupled with regulatory planning, such as zoning, opportunities exist. To avoid regretted investments, Geographic Information Systems allows for the visualization of planning choices before they are made. The focus of this thesis is to provide a method that prioritizes future need, specifically in single-family residential housing. Single-family residential housing densities are defined by zoning designations; thus providing an opportunity to model future impact across a study area as well as provide comparative results.