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Broadband Mapping
By Broadband Speed
MAP Layers
• Type of Technology
• # of Providers
• Community Anchor Institutions
• Demographics (Density, Age, Income)
Availability of High Speed BB
Overlay with Population Density
Overlay with Anchor Institutions
Objectives Follow-up to PAS Report –
“Planning and Broadband” #569
Assess familiarity with broadband issues among planners.
Assess integration of broadband planning strategies into local planning documents.
Compile resources for broadband planning.
METHODOLOGY
Survey conducted from January – March,
2013
Notice to APA state chapters list-serves
Survey Monkey (still open)
FCC NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN
http://www.broadband.gov/
Skills
Public Safety
Smart Grid
Mobile
FCC NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN
http://www.broadband.gov/
Goal
• At least 100 million U.S. homes should have affordable access to actual download speeds of at least 100 mbps per second and actual upload speeds of at least 50 mbps.
Goal
• Every American community should have affordable access to at least 1 gigabit per second broadband service to anchor buildings. institutions such as schools, hospitals and government
Familiar with FCC National Broadband
Plan
No 67%
Yes 33%
Used or Viewed Broadband Maps
No 85%
Yes 15%
www.broadband.gov
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
Broadband Maps
Urban
Suburb
Small Town
Rural
Regional
Overall
Why Planners Need to Plan
Broadband technologies can help communities achieve planning goals such as neighborhood and downtown revitalization.
Planning create synergies between broadband systems and other urban systems.
Partnerships to fund investment in broadband networks.
Planning can yield cost efficiencies by coordinating the broadband network with other public.
Broadband Planning
Strategic Plan
Comp Plan
4%
15%
68%
65%
28%
20%
Yes No Don't Know
BROADBAND PLANNING ELEMENTS
Inventory
Issues
&
Opportunities
Goals
&
Policies
Broadband Task Force
Planner Participate
Task Force
43%
22%
42%
36%
15%
43%
Yes No Don't Know
NEXT STEPS – APA Infrastructure Task Force
Address telecommunication infrastructure in comprehensive
plans.
Planners should support the use of a planning process to
identify the appropriate model for providing advanced
telecommunications-broadband 0infrastructure.
Educate planners, public officials and community about
benefits of broadband infrastructure and issues related to its
deployment.
Promote the creation of state, regional and local tasks forces
to address issues with deploying broadband and promote
broadband applications especially as it relates to planning
practice.
More Information
Kathleen McMahon, AICP
www.appcom.net
406-863-9255
Minnesota Intelligent
Rural Communities
Planning for Broadband S553
John C Shepard, AICP
APA’s 2013 National Planning Conference
15 April 2013
MIRC: Minnesota Intelligent Rural Communities
Key Learning Objectives
• Broadband = Infrastructure
• Blandin Foundation project involved Minnesota Planners in
expanding broadband access and use.
• Evaluation provides useful lessons for all Planners
MIRC: Minnesota Intelligent Rural Communities
• Broadband is essential infrastructure for
the 21st century
• Hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans
don't have access.
http://connectmn.org
used with permission
Broadband Adoption Rate
• Rural America is only 55%
(NTIA 2011)
• Rural Minnesota is ~64%.
Access vs Adoption
• 61,000 UNSERVED
households (none avail)
150,000 people
• 185,000 UNDERserved
households (3Mbps/768k)
450,000 people
MIRC: Minnesota Intelligent Rural Communities
• $6.3 million ARRA-funded Blandin Foundation project,
drawing on the Intelligent Community Framework to
mobilize partners across Greater Minnesota.
• Focus: Education & training, technical assistance,
removing barriers to broadband adoption
http://www.blandinfoundation.org
used with permission
MIRC — The Intelligent Community Framework
http://www.intelligentcommunity.org
used with permission
Broadband Knowledge
Workforce
Innovation
Digital
Inclusion
Advocacy
Intelligent
Community
Development
Cycle
MIRC — State-wide Partners
Business Training
Resident Training
Evaluation
Outreach and
Support
11 Demonstration Communities
MIRC — Demonstration Communities
• Benton County
• Cook County
• Grand Rapids Area
• Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
• Stevens County
• Thief River Falls
• Upper MN Valley RDC
• Willmar
• Windom
• Winona
• Worthington
http://communitytechnologyadvisors.com/
used with permission
MIRC — Demonstration Project Examples
Upper MN Valley RDC
• Computer Commuter mobile lab
• Public access to GIS
• Public TV Broadband promo
• Simplified PC interface for
elderly health care
Windom
• Videoconferencing equipment
• Emergency services remote access
• iPads/wifi at schools
• Community web portal
MIRC — Results
http://www.edacenter.org/mirc-dashboard.php used with permission
MIRC — Lessons Learned
Broadband is Infrastructure
• Electric/Gas, Water/Sewer, Telephone/CATV
Access is Everything
• Not All “Broadband” Service is Equal
• Rural Electric Cooperatives model
Adoption is Not Automatic
• Create a Culture of Use (Community Development)
• Communication, Communication, Communication
MIRC: Minnesota Intelligent Rural Communities
Blandin Foundation Community Broadband Program http://broadband.blandinfoundation.org
Blandin on Broadband Blog: http://blandinonbroadband.org
Intelligent Community Forum: http://www.intelligentcommunity.org
Connected Nation Broadband Mapping: http://www.connectednation.org/data-center-mapping
LinkAmerica Broadband Mapping: http://www.linkamericaalliance.com
John C. Shepard, AICP; Senior Planner
Laramie County (WY) Planning & Development jshepard @ laramiecounty.com / 307.633.4523