No Shoot Areas: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015

Description:

This polygon shapefile contains No Shoot Areas in the County of Santa Cruz, California as defined by County Code section 8.28.030. It is unlawful in these areas to discharge guns, pistols, shotguns, revolvers or any other firearms of a similar nature [Ord. 1201, 1966; Ord. 462, 1955; prior code § 8.25.010]. 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). No Shoot Areas: Santa Cruz County, California, 2015. Santa Cruz County, California. Available at http://purl.stanford.edu/tz075zp0174. GIS Layer Number = 59/ Original Mapping Source: 1:12000 maps of Non-Shooting Areas depicting County Code 8.28.30. Map Used to Convert to GIS: Source Maps and maps included in County Code revisions. New Information Acceptable for Updating Maps: Revision to County Code. The boundaries were plotted and reviewed by the County's Advanced Planning staff.

County of Santa Cruz Firearms Code: http://www.codepublishing.com/ca/santacruzcounty/html/SantaCruzCounty08/SantaCruzCounty0828.html 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/tz075zp0174

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/tz075zp0174

Language:

English

Creator:

Garcia, Paul and Price, Matt

Publisher:

County of Santa Cruz Information Services Department

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Datasets

Subject:

Firearms--Law and legislation, Planning and Cadastral, and Society

Temporal Coverage:

2015

Date Issued:

2015

Spatial Coverage:

Santa Cruz County (Calif.)

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile