City Boundaries: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015

Description:

This polygon shapefile depicts the administrative boundaries for cities over which the County of Santa Cruz, California holds authority: Capitola, Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley and Watsonville. These include properties owned by cities but outside of contiguous city boundaries while still under city jurisdiction. This coverage does not include unincorporated areas. This coverage displays Includes properties outside of city boundaries, but under city jurisdiction. These boundaries have been approved by the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) of Solano County. LAFCO was created in 1963 to encourage orderly formation of local government agencies, preserve agricultural land resources and discourage urban sprawl. LAFCos are responsible for coordinating logical and timely changes in local governmental boundaries, conducting special studies that review ways to reorganize, simplify, and streamline governmental structure and preparing a sphere of influence for each city and special district within each 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). City Boundaries: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015. Santa Cruz County, California. Available at http://purl.stanford.edu/sq569rs8334. Attribute: CITY-CAP = City of Capitola CITY-SC = City of Santa Cruz CITY-SV = City of Scotts Valley CITY-WAT = City of Watsonville

GIS Layer Number = 63/ Boundaries were first converted from Local Area Formation Commission (LAFCO) paper maps to AutoCAD drawings. These were plotted and reviewed by the LAFCO executive officer. 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.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/sq569rs8334

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/sq569rs8334

Language:

English

Creator:

Garcia, Paul and Price, Matt

Publisher:

County of Santa Cruz Information Services Department

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Datasets

Subject:

Administrative and political divisions, Cities and towns, and Boundaries

Temporal Coverage:

2015

Date Issued:

2015

Spatial Coverage:

Santa Cruz County (Calif.), Capitola (Calif.), Santa Cruz (Calif.), Scotts Valley (Calif.), and Watsonville (Calif.)

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile