Training

Build your skill set and further your city’s planning projects

SCAG now offers professional, free training to local government staff and others in the Compass Blueprint Suite of Services. Trainings provide planners and stakeholders with the necessary skills and software to produce photomorph and fly-through visualizations, conduct return-on-investment analysis, and use Envision Tomorrow: the arc-GIS based land use and transportation scenario building software.

Toolbox Tuesdays Trainings

• Photomorph and fly-through visualizations – Learn to use Photoshop, SketchUp and Google Earth to create still-photo, and three-dimensional video representations of potential futures at any scale, from a street intersection to the region or beyond.
• Market feasibility analysis – Learn to use an Excel application that analyzes potential development on a site by site level by projecting developers’ profit based on the full range of building, site, market and regulatory parameters. Test whether alternative zoning and regulatory policies are likely to stimulate or prevent private-sector investment.
• Envision GIS scenario-building – Learn to use GIS to build and map alternative growth scenarios for your community. Each scenario generates a wealth of detailed data on development and building types that can then be input into the Tipping Point and visualization tools. This is the same technology used to create the growth scenarios for the 2008 RTP.
  

Dates & Info

These one-day intensive classes will be held from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at SCAG’s training room in downtown Los Angeles. Future classes will be held monthly and announced here at www.compassblueprint.org. Registration deadline for each class is ten days prior to the date of the class. Space is limited so register today!

To sign up or for more information, contact Peter Brandenburg at SCAG via email or phone: 213-236-1937.