Site Analysis of Proposed L.A. County NFL Stadiums

1. Site Analysis of Proposed L.A. County NFL Stadiums Zachary Zabel UP206A March 19, 2012

2. Facility: $1 billion (all privately funded) 68,000 seat stadium expandable to 78,000 for major events • Location: On the site of the current West Hall of the LA Convention Center, adjacent to the STAPLES Center • Travel: Access to over 20 freeway interchanges, utilization of STAPLES Center parking model to limit congestion

3. Facility: 75,000 seat stadium (all privately funded), built into a hillside to reduce construction costs and materials • Location: City of Industry 20 miles east of downtown L.A. • Travel: “Replicating model of other NFL stadiums by locating outside the congestion of a metropolitan area” • Facility: • Location: • Travel:

4. Spatial Analyst • Kernel Density of existing football stadium seats • Kernel Density of Metrolink commuter rail stations • Euclidean Distance to Metro Rail • Feature to Raster of population over 67 years old

10. Network Analysis • Built a network dataset to perform service areas around facilities (stadium sites) • Travel times derived from dividing distance of streets by speed limits for L.A. County

13. Noise Buffers • Calculated from a maximum noise level of 140dB • (Derived from a 137dB recording at the 2006 NFC Championship in Seattle, the NFL’s loudest stadium) • Sustained exposure at 85dB+ results in permanent hearing loss, at 100dB serious damage can occur in 15 minutes

16. Findings • Farmers Field in high proximity to existing stadiums • Farmers Field very high in proximity to Metro Rail, L.A. Stadium low • Both stadiums “moderate” in access to MetroLink • Hotspot Analysis: Both sites “moderately suitable”, far more suitable locations: Montebello, parts of the San Fernando Valley • Network Analysis: Farmers Field within 30min of most major L.A. County population centers, L.A. Stadium up to an hour from the Westside, Long Beach, and San Fernando Valley • Farmers Field will expose a far greater amount of residents to disruptive levels of noise

17. Conclusions and Cautions • Both projects are massive investments for the returns provided • Externalities such as traffic and noise will be limited to a few days a year • Stadiums will draw visitors from all over Southern California, not just L.A. County • Network Analysis does not take into account that Los Angeles Stadium will better serve the Inland Empire (San Bernardino and Riverside Counties) and Orange County • The importance of access to transit may be low, NFL gameday travelers are more likely to drive

18. Skills Utilized • Modeling • Measurement Analysis (Noise Dispersion, Proximity Rasters, Euclidean Distance) • Custom Shapefile Creation/Original Data (Site Parcels) • Extracting information from bufffer (dB and population) • Charts and images • Hotspot Analysis (Spatial Analyst) • Network Analysis (Network Analyst) • Inset Map • Buffering • Geoprocessing (Clipping) • Geocoding (Current stadiums)

19. Sources References: http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2010/06/16/usa-usa-nascar-nfl-may-be-louder-than-the-vuvuzela/ http://www.farmersfield.com/ http://www.losangelesfootballstadium.com/ http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-distance.htm http://www.worldstadiums.com/north_america/countries/united_states/california.shtml Data Sources: Lab 1, 2 Prepared Files LA Locator from Lab 4 American FactFinder Metro Developer (http://developer.metro.net/introduction/gis-data/download-gis-data/) MetroLink (http://www.metrolinktrains.com/agency/page/title/facts) UCLA Mapshare Presentation Image Sources: http://farmersfield.com/ http://www.losangelesfootballstadium.com/