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This initiative is a public-private collaborative effort that is
designed to improve the protection and conservation of natural
resources in California. Its aim is to enhance the effectiveness and
efficiency of land use and transportation decision-making. The program
will provide up-to-date natural resource data, develop GIS analytical
tools for better decision-making, and enhance access to natural
resource and other data by the public and local, regional and state
decisionmakers.
The Great Places Program (GPP) is jointly directed by the Resources Agency, California Business,
Transportation and Housing Agency, California Environmental
Protection Agency and Office
of Planning and Research. The Information Center for the
Environment (ICE) at UC Davis under the direction of the
participating state agencies is coordinating geospatial data and tool
development.
In order to improve the access, sharing and use of planning and natural
resource data, the Great Places Program is initially focusing its
efforts in the San Joaquin Valley. With a projected
growth rate of more than 50 percent over the next 20 years, the GPP
could provide decisionmakers with a regional natural resource and
planning spatial data system. As funding becomes available, the
activities identified below would be undertaken to quickly provide data
that is critical for local, regional and state decision-making in the
San Joaquin Valley.
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The Information Center for the Environment
University of California, Davis
1 Shields Ave
Davis, Ca 9516
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