Space Requirements Fundamentally, were seeking a basis for scaling the land area needed to accommodate growth in the

urban area expected in the next 20 to 25 years.More particulary, having established in principle where each category of use should be located in the future, we are now interested in estimating how much land will be neededfor each suc h use.Once if these estimates are available, it is the possible to firm up the alternatives for the preliminary land use plan. Studies of the urban economy,employment, and population provide measures of the growth potential, and the several kinds of urban land studies indicate the general character of existing development and provide the basis for determining the space-using characteristic of various land use categories developed to their present intensity of use. While techniques for estimating space requirements vary according to the class of land use, there is a common methodological pattern to the analysis of all classes. The operation can be summarized as consisting of three major steps. 1. Recapitulation of the existing characteristic of development for the particular land use category being studied. 2. Directly concerned with space requirements.It involves first the derivation of space standards appropriate to each class of use and the application of these standards are employed for industrial and residential use. 3. The balancing of space requirements as derived in the preceding step against the supply of land.The supply land is all vacant land. The balancing of need against supply is done separately for each class with the acreage needed for each use being compared with the supply listed under the classification appropriate to that use in vacant and renewal land. The limits of the planning area tend to be drawn rather generously in the first instance, and so this balancing operation will usually show a surplus rather than a shortage in the supply of vacant and renewal land.The surplus can run so high that the delineation of the planning area may appear unrealistic. There is no particular need to contract the boundaries of the factor is over and above the safety factor introduced in the course of detailed calculations made in the analyses of space requirements.Such a flexibility factor allows for deviant choices of individuals and firms who may acquire land in excess of the estimated need and it allows for land which may be held out of use. The whole trial distribution procedure in which space needs are balanced against supply of vacant and renewal land must be viewed of course ad tentative until the final design phase of the land use planning is reached.However, the trial distribution of total space requirements is an essential step in reaching these final decision.