Erie expansion · pre-demo sketch
The 17 planning areas from the Erie Refocused comprehensive plan (czbLLC, March 2016), rendered from the City of Erie's public Planning Neighborhood feature service and color-coded by strategy zone. This is an artifact for conversations, not a working product — the blight scoring engine has not yet been pointed at Erie data.
Colored by CZB strategy zone. The typology tier (5-tier sociodemographic classifier) is shown in the area-detail cards below. Three areas (Bayfront, Downtown, 12th Street Corridor) were excluded from the 5-tier typology in the original plan.
Sorted by strategy zone, then by typology severity. Demographics are 2015 figures from the CZB plan — treat as baseline, not current.
340 acres of fallow land; anchored by Pennsylvania Soldier's & Sailor's Home, St. Stanislaus Church. Two-strategy approach: reinforce near downtown, right-size/clean-and-green elsewhere.
High concentration of historic assets adjacent to Gannon and downtown; primary investment area.
Excluded from CZB's 5-tier sociodemographic typology — small residential population or ad-hoc boundary.
Mixed-use redevelopment focus; ad-hoc boundary (not census).
Excluded from CZB's 5-tier sociodemographic typology — small residential population or ad-hoc boundary.
Waterfront-industrial; ad-hoc boundary (not census).
Excluded from CZB's 5-tier sociodemographic typology — small residential population or ad-hoc boundary.
Excluded from 5-tier typology due to small residential population and unique pattern.
Wide block-level variation; NW Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy, St. Mary's Home, Wilson Middle, Lincoln Elementary.
Conditions improve from 26th St south to 38th St.
Tax delinquencies concentrated in NW section; Diehl Elementary, McClelland Park.
Bounded by GE Transportation east, fallow industrial west; Edison Elementary, Lakeside Cemetery.
Mid-century residential; Lake Erie College of Medicine.
Mercyhurst University + Preparatory School anchor the area.
Healthiest residential stock in Erie; 70% of homes in excellent/good condition per 2015 survey.
Anchored by Erie Zoo, VA Hospital, Joseph C. Martin Family Golf Center, Glenwood Park.
Most pervasive property distress in Erie per 2015 survey. Anchored by Holy Trinity Church, McKinley Park/Elementary, Pulakos Chocolates.
Adjacent industrial/railroad corridor; anchored by Saint Vincent Hospital, West 21st St Historic District, Erie Cemetery.
Erie Lighthouse, Lighthouse Park, Wayne Park, Pulaski Park, St. Anne's Church, East High, Wayne Middle.
etl/erie/arcgis_parcel_loader.py), not yet run.A note on framing. The Erie Refocused plan set a 10-year investment horizon from March 2016. That arc has now run. This platform is complementary, not a successor: CZB gave Erie a strategy and a 2015 baseline map; the platform re-scores the same blocks 10 years on and surfaces where the map has moved. Treat the overlap with CZB's 2015 block scores as a sanity check; the disagreements are the interesting conversation.
For the full methodology behind the scoring engine that will be applied to Erie data once it arrives, see /methodology (the engine is unchanged between Pittsburgh and Erie; only the data source differs).
This page is a pre-demo artifact for conversations with the Erie County Land Bank, the Mayor's office, Erie Downtown Partnership, and partners at the Erie Community Foundation. If you'd rather push back on the prototype early than see a polished version three months from now, we want the feedback.
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