PlanMaster for Facility Siting

Southern California Edison (SCE) staff and Facet consultants used Facet's PlanMaster to create a web site that coordinates the facility siting process. The PlanMaster website (below) captures and structures the objectives and issues in the facility siting decision process.

The result is a robust Web-assessable tool that helps different groups within SCE examine the possible sites for facility development and understand the advantages, limitations, and tradeoffs that each provides. Planners at SCE can:
   - Define which issues have greater priority in the decision making process.
   - Examine how each site complies with CEQA requirements such as habitat conservation and
     potential impacts on water quality.
   - Flag potential conflicts with community health and safety including proximity to schools and
     EMF sensitivity.
   - Research previous community conflicts and sensitivities.
   - Explore access to existing facilities, site size, slope, soil contamination and other engineering
     concerns and costs.
   - Investigate land ownership and governance.

[BELOW] The site locations and scores for this project. A low score indicates the least impendence to the site and therefore the "best" score.

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