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Like many suburban communities, its growth has been driven by several large residential planned developments. Also, like many suburban towns, these developments were changing Fate into a bedroom community\u2014a community in which people lived but traveled outside town to work and shop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":647502,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Ryan Wells, director of planning and development at the city, recognized the long-term problem this created. \u201cThat really sets up a condition where a city has a hard time being fiscally sustainable or fiscally resilient. Single-family detached neighborhoods, while an important ingredient in any community, don\u2019t really pay the bills when it comes to the cost of serving those communities.\u201d\r\n\r\nIn the mid-2010s, city leadership became aware of this dangerous financial condition and decided to act to protect the future of the city of Fate. That decision included diversifying the way that the city develops. Part of this process included measuring the fiscal impact of every new development that was proposed in the city.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis feeds into a citywide understanding of what development patterns tend to be more fiscally productive and which of those require more fiscal resources to support,\u201d said Wells.\r\n\r\nThe city has recently acquired a 267-acre tract and is using ArcGIS Urban to carry out both the scenario planning and fiscal analysis to determine the best path forward for the city. This has put GIS technology in the hands of non-GIS staff so that the planning director, city leadership, stakeholders, and the public can view and analyze multiple scenarios. With everyone in agreement, it will be easier to establish buy-in across the city.\r\n\r\nTo learn more about how that project in the city of Fate has developed, listen to episode 3 of the Reinventing Planning podcast, Performing Fiscal Impact Analysis with GIS. <a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/esJRS\">The podcast is available on Spotify<\/a> and wherever you download podcasts."}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Modeling city growth with GIS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The City of Fate, Texas, uses GIS to assess the impact of development scenarios to enable more intelligent decisions.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/resilient-urban\" \/>\n<meta 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