LSU CADGIS Laboratory, as part of its contract with the Parish of Ascension, has created the Parish Landuse Map below. The Landuse Map was compiled over a six-month period by the IS/GIS Unit of Ascension Parish with the guidance of Farrell Jones and the assistance of four graduate students hired through the Department of Geography and Anthropology. The completed map is currently being employed by the Parish Planning and Zoning Department to assist property owners in understanding how the Parish Landuse Plan affects future property uses.
The graduate students - Mihye Bark (Geography), Meijen Chen (ISDS), Dayong (Architecture/Computer Science), and Xiaojung Ding (Architecture) - help transform CAD graphics into GIS data. They performed the quality checks on both the graphics and attribute data. They also generate the buffer landuse zones as defined by Parish ordinance from the graphics.
Click on the partial thumbnails below to see the full map.
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Landuse Map for the entire parish. The gray areas are incorporated areas excluded from the parish landuse ordinance. The pink landuse zone was not based on parcel boundaries like most of the other zones; instead they were bases as a distance from a street centerline. |
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Close-up of the landuse map showing parcels boundaries. |
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A close-up view of the photograph index map. This map shows the aerial photographs that cover the parish and their edges in blue. |
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A close-up map showing addresses (as red dots) with parcel boundaries in red. The aerial photographs serve as a background. |
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Another close-up map showing addresses (as red dots) with parcel boundaries in blue and street names in green. The aerial photographs serve as a background. |
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A thematic map showing the wards of Ascension Parish. |