The study area defines the region you focus on when working in your plan. When no zoning boundary, land use boundary or parcel is selected, legends and dashboards in ArcGIS Urban only report on features inside the study area. The suitability analysis only includes parcels inside the study area. You define the initial study area when creating the plan. See Create a plan to learn more. The Edit study area tool allows you to modify the study area of existing plans.
Users with editing permissions can edit the plan's study area. Changes to the study area affect all scenarios.
To edit the plan study area, complete the following steps:
- Open the plan editor.
- Click the Details button
at the upper right of the header. - Click the Edit study area button
on the workflow toolbar at the right of the view. - Optionally, enable Show Urban Model parcels to visualize the parcels from the urban model in the view.
You can snap the study area to those parcels.
- Edit the study area by clicking and dragging its vertices.
This tool supports snapping. To disable snapping temporarily, press the Ctrl key while editing.
- Click Done to close the tool.
Tip:
After expanding the study area, consider adding parcels from the urban model for the expanded area. This includes the following actions:- Update the parcels of the existing scenario. Delete the parcels in the existing scenario first. Then import the parcels from the urban model. See Add parcels to learn more.
- Select the parcels covering the expanded area in the existing scenario. Copy the selected parcels to any scenario in the plan. See Copy parcels to a scenario to learn more.