162 any remnants of structures to measure contamination and make cleanup plans for priority sites. GIS is a common technology for this type of collaboration, used for mapping where the work needs to be done and reporting where and to what extent each site is contaminated. Finally, MetroCOG’s brownfield site selector tool made available all the historical records—many of which were previously only available on paper and tucked away in file drawers— and provided access to the latest environmental assessment reports. Showing Redevelopment Potential Brownfields aren’t the only focus of MetroCOG. The council also administers cooperative planning for issues related to transportation, land use, housing, public facilities, open space, environment, energy, and economic development. Increasingly, staff members have been applying and promoting their GIS capacity to member communities of Bridgeport, Easton, Fairfield, Monroe, Stratford, and Trumbull. This includes building issue-oriented tools similar to the brownfield site selector and creating 3D visualizations to help city planners see the changes they want to foster. In Stratford, MetroCOG worked with municipal staff to showcase development options for MetroCOG used ArcGIS 3D Analyst to create these views of the site of a former metal plating facility in Stratford, generating interest by visualizing the context and what could be built there. MetroCOG used ArcGIS 3D Analyst to create these views of the site of a former metal plating facility in Stratford, Connecticut, generating interest by visualizing the context and what could be built there.
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