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Land Use Area, Sonoma County, California, 2012

Identification Information

Citation
Title
Land Use Area, Sonoma County, California, 2012
Originator
Geographic Information Systems, Sonoma County (Calif.)., California
Publication Date
2012-10-01
Revision Date
2012-10-01
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
mapDigital
Abstract
The General Plan Land Use by Area dataset represents the broader countywide distribution, location and extent of land development by land use categories (designation) and density as specified in the Sonoma County General Plan 2020 as adopted on September 23, 2008 by Resolution No. 08-0808. The intent of the plan is that policies, guidelines, and standards be clear and direct so that property owners and citizens may easily understand its provisions and how they apply to parcels of land as well as their cumulative impact on future environmental conditions and quality of life. The broad purpose of the Sonoma County General Plan is to express policies which will guide decisions on future growth, development, and conservation of resources through 2020 in a manner consistent with the goals and quality of life desired by the county's residents. Under State law many actions on private land development, such as specific plans, area plans, zoning, subdivisions, public agency projects and other decisions must be consistent with the general plan. The goals, objectives, and policies set forth in the plan will be applied in a manner to insure their constitutionality. Per Title 7, Division 1 of the Government Code of the State of California. Article 5, Section 65300 et seq, the County of Sonoma is required to adopt a comprehensive general plan to guide its future physical development. Therefore, as required by law, the 2020 Sonoma County General Plan was officially adopted on September 23, 2008. Related Resources: Sonoma County General Plan 2020 Index [includes amendments since adoption] http://www.sonoma-county.org/prmd/gp2020/index.htm Sonoma County Zoning Regulations http://www.sonoma-county.org/prmd/docs/zoning/index.htm Chapter 26 specifies the applicability of base zoning districts to general plan land use categories (designations). Therefore, base zoning districts and the general plan land uses are interdependent. While the general plan land use specifies broader land use development policies, guidelines, and standards, each base zoning district is specific in stating purpose, permitted uses, uses permitted with a use permit and permitted residential density and development criteria.
Purpose
Since the GIS data was developed for planning purposes and use in publication of maps and/or database creation, the data is for illustrative purpose only and is not suitable for parcel specific decision making. Therefore, the GIS data presented herein are approximations and further land development determination is at the discretion of the PRMD planning staff which may require a parcel specific site review (to draw parcel specific conclusions).
Temporal Extent
Time Period
Begin
2012-10-01T00:00:00
End
Bounding Box
West
-123.534619
East
-122.349809
North
38.85691
South
38.103489
ISO Topic Category
boundaries
Place Keyword
Sonoma County (Calif.)
Place Keyword Thesaurus
geonames
Temporal Keyword
2012
Theme Keyword
Land utilization
Land use
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
lsch
Resource Constraints
Use Limitation
No part of this map may be copied, reproduced, or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the Permit and Resource Management Department (PRMD), County of Sonoma, California. Maps contained in a planning document published by PRMD can be photocopied by members of the public for review and comment purposes.
Status
onGoing
Maintenance and Update Frequency
unknown
Language
eng
Credit
Geographic Information Systems (2012), Land Use Area, Sonoma County, California. Geographic Information Systems, Sonoma County, California
Point of Contact
Contact
Geographic Information Systems, Sonoma County (Calif.)., California
Position Name
PRMD GIS Staff
Point of Contact
Contact
UC Berkeley Library
Position Name
GIS Librarian
Delivery Point
50 McCone Hall
City
Berkeley
Administrative Area
CA
Postal Code
94720
Country
US
Email
eart@library.berkeley.edu
Phone
510-642-2997

Spatial Reference Information

Reference System Identifier
Code
2226
Code Space
EPSG
Version
5.3(9.0.0)

Data Quality Information

Lineage
Process Step
Description
Changed "SOCO_PRMD_GP_Land_Use_Area.shp" to "Sonoma_landusearea_2012.shp"
Process Date
2015-01-26T00:00:00

Distribution Information

Format Name
Shapefile
Format Version
ArcGIS 10.2
Distributor
UC Berkeley Library
Online Access
Protocol
Name

Spatial Representation Information

Vector
Topology Level
geometryOnly
Vector Object Type
composite
Vector Object Count
106

Metadata Reference Information

Hierarchy Level
dataset
Metadata File Identifier
28722/bk00169155s
Dataset URI
28722/bk00169155s
Metadata Date Stamp
2018-04-02
Metadata Standard Name
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Metadata Standard Version
2007
Character Set
utf16
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