GARETT BALLARD-ROSAGIS FINAL

14 MARCH 2011

Green Job Attraction in Pacoima

REVIEW: WHY PACOIMA?

ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF

THE COMMUNITY

POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR GREEN JOB ATTRACTION

AND TRANSITION

What’s the Problem?Environmental and Economic

Inequity

•Estimated population of 100,000

•7 square miles

•20% of community lives below federal poverty line

•Over half of all households earn less than $40,000 a year

The Community of Pacoima

Latino86%

Black7%

Asian2%

White5%

Other1%

Ethnicity in Pacoima

less than high

school66%

high school16%

some college13%

Bachelor's degree3%

Master's degree or higher

1%

Education Level in Pacoima

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 20080.00%

5.00%

10.00%

15.00%

20.00%

25.00%

30.00%

35.00%

40.00%

Estimated Manufacturing as % of Total Employment in Pacoima

LEHDCBP

Year

1998199920002001200220032004200520062007200812000

12500

13000

13500

14000

14500

15000

CBP Estimated total employment in Pacoima

year

em

plo

ym

ent

2,000 Manufacturing Jobs

Industrial Land Use has its side-effects

Polluting sites include:

300 industrial businesses

30 landfills (operating and non-operating)

Commuter airport

Heavy freight and diesel truck traffic

3 major freeways

Auto DismantlingAuto Service

Machine ShopsMultipleSalvage

TruckingStone

ChemicalsOther

0% 5% 10%

15%

20%

25%

Percent of noncompliance compared to percent of total

firms by business type

% of total non-compliance% of total firms

Salvage7%

Auto Dismantle22%

Auto Service20%Machine Shop

17%

Trucking 2%

Stone5%

Other10%

Chemical5%

Multiple12%

Environmental Violation by Business Type

Original research on project area

Sources include:

● City Assessor and ZIMAS land use data

● County Business Patterns and LEHD of US Census

● SCAG and Economic Development Database

● Pacoima Beautiful CARE II study and environmental data

● Personal site visits and interviews

Inventories used to determine optimal spots for green jobs

Research divided into two sections:

•Attraction (how to get new green firms to locate in the project area)

•Transition (how to green existing firms in the project area)

Attraction analysis reveals optimal location:

Variables in index include:

●Vacancy (index heavily weighted towards vacant spots)

●Assessed Value/sq ft (lower cost weighted higher)

●Year of building construction (newer buildings weighted higher)

12159 Branford

Transition Index reveals optimal location

Index with environmental cleanup favored

Index with job creation favored

Results of transition index based on weights

Potential of Green Cluster

DLU Lighting at 12420 Montague Street identified as existing green firm

Required Skills Used

Model

Metadata

Additional Skills Used

•Buffering (required for measurement/analysis skill) on slide of green job cluster

•Original Data (required, seen in physical, business, and environmental inventories I constructed for the project area)

•Inset Map (for Pacoima in L.A. and for project area in Pacoima)

•Hot Spot Analysis to determine optimal green job location (based on different variables for each model)

•Graduate Symbol (depicting number of manufacturing jobs)

•Aggregating Attribute Fields (eg. Span1st/All * 100)

•Attribute Subset Selection (used many times, such as Pacoima by census tract, land use: industrial and residential, etc)

•Geoproecessing (Clip, Merge and Divide to create parcel area)