Aging in Place in Ventura County: Addressing a New Challenge

1. Aging in Place in Ventura County: Addressing a New Challenge Searching for Solutions to Current and Future Challenges to a Growing Demographic Case Study: City of Thousand Oaks UP 206A: Introduction to GIS Instructor: Leo Estrada TA: Nic Jay Aulston / Peter Capone-Newton Presented by Dao Doan March 14, 2011 Sources: US Census Bureau/American FactFinder; US Dept of Labor, US Bureau of Labor Statistics (2009) Thousand Oaks Council on Aging Civic Ventures City of Thousand Oaks GIS Dept Photos and sketches by Dao Doan

2. The Issues: • Growing Aging Population (Starting in 2012, about 10,000 people will become 65 every day) • Economic and Social Impacts • Housing and Mobility • Services • Family • Life Transitions Source: Civic Ventures

3. The Challenges: • Desire to age in place is high. But sprawl is unfriendly to seniors • Urban Opportunities and Constraints • High expenses in housing, transportation, food and health care (65% of combined income) • Search for and study alternatives • Local • County • Region • The Objectives: • Education/Outreach • Affect Policies: • Housing • Land use • Mobility • The Approach: • Study case studies and concepts US Dept of Labor, US Bureau of Labor Statistics (2009)

4. Types of transitions with impact on/by built environment: Retirement(no longer needing to live near work with the freedom to act upon other values that move up in importance) Changes in health status, aging changes or onset of disability Dissolution of a family union such as divorce or loss of spouse Need or desire to be geographically located next to children or family Financial status change The Players: Thousand Oaks Council on Aging Ventura County Civic Alliance (VCCA) Conejo Future Foundation Ventura County Quality of Life Task Force (professionals seeking to better design senior services for Baby Boomers) Ventura County Area Agency on Aging (VCAAA) Local Business Leaders and Concerned Residents

5. Ventura County: • Population: over 800,000 • 65 and over: Close to 12% • Approximate land area: 1,850 S.M. • 10 Cities • Camarillo • Fillmore • Moorpark • Ojai • Oxnard • Port Hueneme • Santa Paula • Simi Valley • Thousand Oaks • Ventura • Case study: Thousand Oaks • Thousand Oaks Blvd • Neighborhood center

6. The next steps as defined in prior presentation: Identify poverty pockets Identify potential services for seniors within subject boundary Identify potential opportunity for in-fill or adaptive rehab sites Create concept vision of future development Identify policies targeted for reform Advocate reform through public outreach Technical steps for this presentation: Clean up graphic and data presentation Search for and research new data to incorporate into presentation, i.e. parcel maps and topographical maps Explore other features in GIS

7. Analysis: • Senior population distribution in 3 categories: • 55-64 (second largest group) • 65-74 (smallest group) • 75 and over (largest group) • There are subtle differences in population distribution, with the largest concentration of 75 and over in Thousand Oaks and Oxnard

8. Poverty: Although considered a relatively affluent county, Ventura is not immune to pockets of poverty level, especially among seniors, who are more dependent on access and mobility than others

9. Case Study-Thousand Oaks • One can observe that in some tracts some 75-and-older groups are congregated closer to town than the other two groups. • In Thousand Oaks there are more seniors in the 55-64 group than the 65-74 or 75 and over groups.

10. City-wide Analysis: • Identification of key landmarks: • Hospital • Emergency Response • Retail and Services • Public Transit • Civic (Library, Post Office, DMV, City Hall, Performance Center)

11. City-wide Analysis: • Review of poverty situation: • There are areas of poverty concentration in more urbanized sections • Some areas around Thousand Oaks Blvd indicate need of focus. TO Blvd is an area of opportunity

12. Examples of existing amenities

13. Case study 1: Thousand Oaks Blvd Primarily commercial corridor Numerous retail and commercial services Current Specific Plan under consideration Opportunities for Mixed Use redevelopment Potential densification Proximity to various Civic and public amenities Potential future downtown

14. Advocate change of land use policies to promote walkable neighborhoods through adaptive rehabilitation of existing building stock

17. Case study 2: Newbury Park Explore opportunities for redevelopment of in a neighborhood

19. Modeling: • Objective: Create model to buffer important landmarks and assess proximity of population to such landmarks. They are: • Hospital • Emergency Response • Retail and Services • Public Transit • Civic (Library, Post Office, DMV, City Hall, Performance Center)

20. Summary of skills • Creating Maps with data from American FactFinder (Slide 5) • Exporting/Clipping Cities of the County (Slides 5, 6, 7) • Exporting/Selecting Road attributes, Creating new layers (Slides 8, 9, 10) • Symbolizing features of population (6, 7, 8, 9, 10) • Exploring with colors and transparencies • Exploring with symbologies • Creating and symbolizing population groups (6, 7, 8) • Clipping of attributes (5, 6, 7, 8) • Selecting and extracting attributes (all spatial slides) • Selecting and symbolizing attributes (all spatial slides) • Creating new layers (all spatial slides) • Creating and dissolving buffer (9, 11, 12, 15) • Researching, obtaining and creating new topo and parcel layers (slides 11, 12, 15) • Exploring modeling (slide 18) • Made lots of and learned from mistakes (all spatial slides)

21. The End Epilogue: The road to GISdom is littered with disastrous mistakes… but this old dog has learned new tricks…