General Land Use Plans for California, USA

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We undertook creating the first ever seamless statewide General Plan map for California. All county general plans and many city general plans were integrated into 1 statewide Geographic Information System (GIS) dataset. The data was then standardized to thirteen consistent land use classifications for the intent of natural resource and infrastructure planning. This data represents one of the two-part GIS datasets. The dataset is a scenario of landuse more adequately representing current residential and rural residential growth. The sister dataset is the 'source' General Plans. This dataset represents the general plans as they were delivered to us from counties, after they were rectified to 13 standard land use classes. This work took place at the University of California Davis. The data is freely available and distributed through the California Resources Agency.
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California Resources Agency/University of California Davis
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Various, 09/01/2009
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California Resources Agency, Legacy Project
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not specified
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The State of California and the Resources Agency make no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy of data or maps. The user will not seek to hold the State or the Agency liable under any circumstances for any damages with respect to any claim by the user or any third party on account of or arising from the use of data or maps. The user will cite the Resource Agency and/or the appropriate Department within the Agency as the original source of the data, but will clearly denote cases where the original data have been updated, modified, or in any way altered from the original condition. There are no restrictions on distribution of the data by users. However, users are encouraged to refer others to the California Digital Conservation Atlas, the California Spatial Information Library or the California Environmental Information Catalog, in case updated data become available.
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land management and planning, planning, land use planning, general plans, land use regime
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