ABSTRACT
Communities need to estimate land-use requirements associated with private and public sector employment over five-to 20-year planning horizons. Problems include the lack of good information about land-use parameters, the quality of data that is available, and the changing trends. This chapter presents a method for estimating employment-based land-use requirements principally using secondary data or locally derived data together with planning decisions. The manufacturing land-use category combines light and heavy manufacturing and durable and nondurable goods manufacturing. Central business district has higher concentrations of office workers, while rural areas typically have higher concentrations of manufacturing, distribution, and natural resources workers. The averages used here are based in part from studies conducted by the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, the Institute of Transportation Engineers, and Price Waterhouse Real Estate Group. The starting point for further analysis is an estimate of square feet of building space consumed by workers in each major employment-based land-use category.
