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Title: General Plan Public Facilities Designations: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015

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Dates

  • Issued: 2015
  • Coverage: 2015

Publishers

  • County of Santa Cruz Information Services Department

Summary

This polygon shapefile contains public facilities in the County of Santa Cruz County, California as defined in General Plan adopted May 24, 1994.Facility classifications include Cemetery, School, Fire Station, Hospital, Library, Parking, Post Office, Utility and Religious. This coverage does not constitute a complete set of all Public Facilities in the County. This layer is part of a collection of GIS data created for Santa Cruz County, California. The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Unit falls under the purview of the County of Santa Cruz Information Services Department. The GIS Unit serves all County departments and external customers and provides data on land, features and people of Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz County encompasses 4 cities and approximately 265,000 people. This coverage can be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analyses of geospatial data. County of Santa Cruz Information Services Department. (2015). General Plan Public Facilities Designations: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015. Santa Cruz County, California. Available at http://purl.stanford.edu/fq851ds3928. GIS Layer Number = 21/ Boundaries were first converted from 1"=800' and 1"=2000' General Plan maps to AutoCAD drawing files. These were plotted and reviewed by the County's Advanced Planning staff. The boundaries have been updated to reflect changes from the 1994 General Plan update, and Board of Supervisor resolutions passed since the General Plan update. County of Santa Cruz Planning Department General Plan (adopted May 24, 1994): http://www.sccoplanning.com/PlanningHome/SustainabilityPlanning/GeneralPlan.aspx These data were compiled from many different sources; therefore, the accuracy of the individual layers varies significantly, and some layers do not align exactly with others. In the urban areas, data are generally accurate within five to ten feet of their true geographic coordinates, but in the rural areas, data may be accurate to only within three hundred feet. With these limitations, the County of Santa Cruz disclaims any responsibility for the accuracy or correctness of this data. This disclaimer is exclusive and in lieu of any warranties, fitness for particular purpose, and/or any other type of warranty, whether expressed or implied. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

  • Structure
  • Santa Cruz County (Calif.)
  • Regional planning
  • Community development
  • Land use--Planning
  • Public buildings
  • Religious institutions
  • Planning and Cadastral
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-122.202316, -121.72108, 37.17367, 36.866286)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-122.202316, -121.72108, 37.17367, 36.866286)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Garcia, Paul, Price, Matt. General Plan Public Facilities Designations: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015. County of Santa Cruz Information Services Department. Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/fq851ds3928

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English