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Recommendations
My recommendation to the Charlestown Planning Commission
for the Openspace Plan is to follow the scoring
system created using the web survey.
The differences between the two scoring systems that
I tested are small, which gives credibility to the values that will
be put into this plan.
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Despite this small difference, after examining
the way the scoring systems rank the land in Charlestown,
it is apparent that the web survey based scoring system has
the potential to protect more resources then the scoring system
developed by the Conservation and Planning Commissions for
the same amount of money. The analysis of the difference
between the scoring systems illustrates this finding in detail.
Finally, I believe that a GIS based scoring
system should be used as one component when analyzing parcels
for acquisition, but the data limitations of this study should
not cause the process of evaluating parcels to be compromised.
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Additional information should be gathered about
every potential parcel, and all information should be included in
the evaluation of that parcel. More discussion of this is in the
limitations
section of the point system.
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