This brings us to Summary Task 2c: Identify and Create a Preferred Site.
:You'll now select a candidate site and export the selected feature to a new
polygon feature class named Preferred_Site."
To do this you will first make the Candidate_Sites the only selectable layer.
Make sure your Site Map is the active map. In the Contents pane, click on List by
Selection. Right-click Candidate_Sites. Go to the Selection menu and choose
"Make this the only selectable layer." You should see only this layer checked
on now.
Next, we are going to change the Basemap of the Site Map, so make sure the Site Map
is active. Click the Map tab. Choose the Basemap drop-down and choose
Imagery Hybrid. Now what you're going to do is zoom around on the map,
panning in and out, in the two different linked maps and try and discover a parcel
location where you would like to have your food trailer located.
So switch back to List by Drawing Order and turn off the Zoning layer that
you no longer need, and turn off Compatible_Zoning_Districts, and turn off
Food_Trailers and Food_Trailer_Competition.
and so you should have in the Site Map the Candidate_Sites layer and if you
want to you can click on it and choose Appearance and set some transparency
so you can kind of see through.
And so these are parcels that have the correct zoning that are outside of the one
mile buffer of your signature dish type. And so think about an area of Austin that
you like, where you might want to have your food trailer. Turn Layers off and on.
For instance, I live on the south side of Austin, so I'm interested in my food
trailer being down on the south side. And so I'm going to zoom in here and
take a look.
Looks like there is some new construction going on here.
Don't want to do it there. Ah, this looks good. This is a candidate site.
It has a nice big parking lot. It looks like there are plenty of
businesses around. There are some restaurants across the street, but not on
this side of the street as much. And so I'm going to click on this parcel.
I'm going to right-click and choose Select, and this is going to be my preferred site.
So I'm taking this parcel as my preferred site and if I zoom out, let's see where
that one-mile buffer is. My nearest buffer is way over here, so it's plenty
far away.
And so now that I have my parcel selected I'm going to right-click Candidate_Sites
and choose Data, Export Features.
Make sure it saved in the geodatabase and give it the name of Preferred_Site
and click Run. This is going to take the selected polygon from the Candidate_Sites
layer, export it out to its own future class within my project geodatabase,
and add that as a layer to the map. So now if I right-click and choose a
nice bright yellow color, I'll see it visible on the map here.
Click the Map tab and clear Selected Features.
And be sure to save your project before proceeding.