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    Land Use Area, Sonoma County, California, 2012

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    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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