Talk:Wichita, Kansas LandValuePerAcre
First draft complete, what's next?
I completed the first draft of the article and now have some questions and thoughts
+ I have not done a 3d image - the original story on Kansas City and similar analysis uses a 3d map to highlight areas with the highest land value per acre - is this worth it? I don't know how to do 3D in QGIS and I don't know the value
+ what is the benefit in trying to roll up the total value statistics by neighborhood? Tyche pointed me to the Zillow neighborhood boundaries and I used those in some visualizations. The neighborhood boundaries are incomplete and I would need to digitize missing ones. So it's some work. Would analyzing say median land value per acre for the blocks within each neighborhood be valuble?
- ZIllow boundaries are here - https://github.com/stepps00/zillow-neighborhoods and other places
+ is there enough of a punchline? what else does this article need?
+ DONE! TYCHE FIXED THE UPLOAD MAX FILE SIZE.
Tyche needs to fix a max upload in .zip file size so that I can upload a .zip file of the block boundaries - I want anyeon to be able to download this data
that's all - comments appreciated!
WichitaDataExplorer (talk) 18:18, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
- Hi - a few thoughts. First, we did end up fixing the max file size of the upload. It was set to 8MB and we upped this to 50MB, thanks for your patience.
- Other opinions - I find that the 3d is interesting as an entry point into discussion, I don't see that it is really actionable. I think you hit on something very interesting - rolling this data up by neighborhood. You can either digitize in the missing neighborhoods and analyze all neighborhoods, or you could just pick 3-4 neighborhoods that are representative. Thinking while typing, if you rolled the data up by neighborhood you could sum up total appraised value, total acreage and then create a new value/acre map - is that the direction you're looking to take? I would be very interested to see what this looks like. It is also create a summary that is more understandable. People get it when you speak about neighborhoods.
- Net - if you had to do one thing I would pick neighborhood analysis.
- In terms of punchline... last couple of thoughts... the analysis that you're doing provides a few punchlines (and some of these are things you can do or suggest as potential next steps):
- you can test Wichita zoning (e.g. lot size mininmums) to see how they are supportive of new development that has high value/acre yield
- you can borrow something from this article - https://archive.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/2/2/citizen-development-higher-value-per-acre - point #5 "Focusing on productive neighborhoods.Identify the areas with the potential for the highest return on investment and focus on these neighborhoods first. "
- you could also look at a what-if analysis for infill - what if you developed 100 houses (SFH, duplexes, etc) and put them in areas w/ low value/acre, how would that raise the metric for numerous blocks
- as we hopefully have more of these value/acre studies on Tyche you can see what comparable cities look like for evluative purposes or to borrow ideas from those studies
- KarlTyche (talk) 14:13, 3 December 2025 (UTC)
- I added in the neighborhood rollup as a section towards the end - it is very interesting looking at the data by neighborhood and anyone can see significant differences in total value per acre by neighborhood. WichitaDataExplorer (talk) 18:50, 3 December 2025 (UTC)