commercial vacancy

Hello,

I have a couple questions regarding commercial/industrial vacancy when
running UrbanSim. During about the first ten years or so of a model run
there is no commercial or industrial development. I find in the logs that
there is an especially high number of vacant sqft which leads to the model
not creating any new industrial or commercial development. So how does
urbanism calculate vacant sqft? Also, how would one go about determining
sqft per job for the industrial/governmental/commercial _sqft_per_job fields
in the gridcells table as I suspect this has something to do with my
problem?

Thanks,

Quinn Korbulic
GIS Coordinator
Spatial Applications and Research Center
New Mexico State University
Geography Department
Box 30001, Dept. MAP
Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001
VOICE (505) 646-5755
FAX (505) 646-7430
Received on Sun Jun 03 2007 - 17:40:39 PDT