GIS in Land Use Planning with ArcGis 10.2 Program

Abstract

This study deals with the issue of housing and its importance as a basic need for human beings. It is important to provide housing for families, especially those with low income, through the implementation of housing plans. This is the role of the Rural Development and Re-Planning Department in the State of Khartoum, as it provides residential land and ownership to the citizens to achieve stability for the families and achieving financial family income, and lastly income for the state treasury. The main problem is the provision of residential land with basic services of water, electricity and sanitation systems, where most of the housing plans now do not have these services, as far as the cities and neighborhoods are inhabited by the population. This study was carried out on the provision of residential land according to the criterion of proximity to the residential cities (700) meters on scale of every(100) meters represent(1)kilometer, where electricity and water services can be easily obtained. In this research the use of residential land classes of various types of housing purposes from commercial, residential and investment as well as sports spaces and schools for square 84 West Geraif and part of the blocks of 79 and 90 and block 1 of elferdoos neighborhood, as well as the layer of public roads to represent the urban scale is under investigation. Agricultural land according to the standard required is also tested, which is land located within the urban range of cities and provinces and near the public streets. Furthermore, agricultural lands have been tested with regard to proximity to the urban scale, differentiated between agricultural lands eliminated from the urban scale and agricultural land at a distance of up to 1 kilometer distance. This has been carried out under the hypothesis, that the urban scale of cities has to be improved and changed to the purpose to be residential. The ArcGIS (10.2) program was used to construct a model that works on the testing of agricultural land and its distance from the city's urban scale using buffer-erosion tools and then creating a new layer that refers to the excluded lands with the emergence of lands, that can be improved and transformed into housing areas.