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Urban Development Program Help

1. Themes

There are three types of themes you can create maps and reports on:

• Broadhectare Residential
• Established Residential
• Industrial

To begin, select one of the themes from the left menu at UDP home page

Then follow the steps, explained below, to search areas, generate reports, build maps and print maps

2. Searching/identifying your area of interest

You can search by:

• Region/Local Government
• Estate Name
• Melway/VicRoads
• Address
• Lot on Plan

Select the way you will search and the field will appear below with a white background.

Select from list or enter details

Don't have a full address? Just fill in Street name and select from list

You can do a new search anytime, just select the search tab to return to this menu

3. Generating a Report

Use the Get Report tab.

Use from the map tool bar to select parcel(s)

• click on each parcel of interest, or
• click on a corner of area, and 'drag' a box covering area of interest

To remove parcels, use the tool and click on the parcel to be removed, then click Remove selection from the left bar

Once you have selected your area of interest, use the button to view your report.

It will open in another window. To print or save your report, use your browser tool bar.

Limit on Selections

You are limited to a maximum of 500 records per selection.

If you have selected more than 500 records, only 500 will be returned. A message will tell you if maximum is reached.The Map will highlight those selected.

To generate a single report of more than 500 parcels, use to reselect the additional required parcels.

Tips:

• zoom in closer to the area of interest and select only the area required.
• to keep the number of records per selection to a manageable size, drag smaller box areas. These will be added to the current selection.

Total Selection tells how many records selected for single report

Parcel Information

For information about a parcel use from the map tool bar and click on the parcel.

Parcel information includes:

• Forecase development timing
• Density Type
• Zoning at 9/2003
• Lots per hectare
• Area in the parcel
• Location information

Example of Report

A Report is generated for each theme.

It covers:

• a summary of selected parcels by Municipality and theme category
• the Total area selected in each category
• a map of the selected area
• a map highlighting areas included in report

To print or save the report, use browser tools

Change Theme

For a report on another theme in the same area:

• change theme - from map tool bar
• select parcels of interest
• use button to view report

For a report on another area, select metro map from the map tool bar to return to the original map.

4. Build Maps

Select Build Map tab.

Layers relevant to your theme are displayed.

Click on layers you want on/off and Refresh Map.

5. Print a map

To print the map you are viewing, click on in map toolbar.

You can select

• Page size
• scale

Click OK

Note this involves large amounts of data and will take time (depends on your connection)

The map is created in PDF. You require Adobe Reader to print it.

View Map to print

If OK, click on print tool or save

If not, close(this opens in a new window) and reselect.

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