Presentation Outline:

CHARM is an interactive, sim-city style, table-top mapping platform that provides hyper-localized planning and mitigation support. It was developed using ESRI’s ArcGIS and CommunityViz plugin at Texas A&M, and has been a key technology for impactful outreach and engagement. The presentation will cover how this GIS technology assists communities around the state with stakeholder-led approaches to holistic, long-range land use planning, development and mitigation. The presentation will also cover new technologies the program is developing to support Texas GLO’s state digital infrastructure for improved planning.

About the Speaker:

Steven Mikulencak is the Planning Program Director and CHARM (Community Health and Resource Management) Lead at Texas Community & Watershed Partners, a community planning program of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. His professional focus is on participatory technologies that bring high-quality data and risk analyses to non-technical audiences and decision makers. The primary technology developed by the program is CHARM, an interactive, sim-city style, table-top mapping platform that provides hyper-localized planning and mitigation support. This supports additionally Texas A&M AgriLife’s recently formed Disaster Assistance and Response Unit. He received his degrees from Virginia Tech and Cornell University in geology and urban planning. He is AICP certified with the American Planning Association.

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