The California Protected Areas Database (CPAD) Larry Orman, Executive Director November, 2013
Roadmap 1. What are "protected areas"? 2. How CPAD works 3. Uses for CPAD data 4. Easement data 5. Next steps for CPAD 6. Q&A
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Learn more about CPAD www.calands.org
Protected Open Space Parks, preserves, wilderness Owned in fee by agency or NGO... for primary purpose of maintaining for open space uses
Protected Open Space City and neighborhood parks (but not facilities) Regional and county parks, preserves Watersheds and acquired flood management areas Ecological preserves State, national parks National forests and BLM lands
But Not Public Land Generally Not civic centers, dumps, wastewater, other such public lands/sites Not military lands Not tribal lands (sovereign)
The CPAD Database GIS data 49+ million acres 14,000 parks 1,000 agencies Highly accurate v. 2013b (Sept, 2013) www.calands.org
The CPAD Database Top 100 agencies > 99% of acres Other 800+ agencies > 65% of units (mostly urban parks) 57,000 Holdings; 13,700 Super Units ( parks ) BY OWNERSHIP LEVEL (acres) Federal 44,088,000 State 2,876,000 County 330,000 City 705,000 Special District 603,000 Non-Profit 629,000 Private* 3,000 BY ACCESS (acres) Open 47,100,000 Restricted 1,635,000 Closed 415,000 Unknown 121,000
Here s What We re Trying to Create
Why a Good Inventory Matters 1 Lands owned in fee Lands with easements
Why a Good Inventory Matters
Where did CPAD come from? Bay Area, regional databases Some state inventory Full statewide database in 2008 Many funding partners State parks, CalFire, Coastal Conservancy Foundations Others
CPAD Improvement Project 2012-2014 Strategic Growth Council Through USGS GAP $265,000, 20 months > April 2014 Objectives: Sustainability Improve data Improve systems Educate users
How CPAD Works Detailed documentation in the CPAD user manual - see www.calands.org
How CPAD is structured Geodatabase - Holdings and Units/Super Units Key attributes Agency Access Ownership Designation Size Dates, county, etc. Kennedy Park Jones Regional Preserve
How CPAD is structured Structure example:
CPAD Data Issues 1. Use of parcel data vs. source agency boundaries 2. Ownership/management determinations 3. Updates how best connect to 1,000 agencies... 4. Correction of older data accuracy/errors 5. Define holding designations ("watershed", "park", etc.) 6. Regional data aggregators (COGs, NCCPs, etc.) 7. HOAs, and others
CPAD Data Quality Issues
CPAD Data Quality Issues (parcel alignment USFS or Marin..)
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CPAD Nationally - PAD-US Link Protected Areas Database of the U.S. USGS GAP State by state + federal CPAD is Calif. element in PADUS
PAD-US Key attributes: Agency Level Size Access Designation Gap rank gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus
CPAD Uses Guidelines 1. Best use: multi-jurisdictional plans/programs/analyses Regional, county, some cities, watershed, bi-state, statewide, special project areas 2. Use caveats: 1. Does not replace source agency data 2. Updates do not canvass all 1,000 agencies for changes (focus on top 50+) 3. Alignments may differ from source agencies (parcels)
CPAD Uses 1. Sustainable Community Strategies (SCSs) 2. General Plans (mainly county), LAFCos, consultants 3. Land conservation planning, climate adaptation 4. Recreation needs analysis including tourism 5. Transportation facility siting (state, national, regional) 6. Flood, fire & other emergency planning and response 7. Researchers (social, conservation, political, accountability) 8. Law (Megan s law, other parole, regulation) 9. Utilities siting, routing, etc. (renewable energy siting) 10. more
CPAD Use Examples 1. Data assessment 2. Maps/display 3. Geospatial analysis 4. Web applications
http://www.mapsportal.org/factfinder/ 1
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http://scc.ca.gov/project-viewer/
http://www.bayarealands.org/explorer 1
www.parkinfo.org
Easements Conservation Easement removes development options retains private ownership Land ownership fee
Easement Data Coverage matters
Easements Who, what Conservation/open space easements Not utility or other types Permanent/very long term (vs. short term) Key agencies - governments, nonprofits... + private? Federal, state, some others Land trusts, other NGOs Home Owners Associations? Mitigation businesses?
Easement GIS Data CCED, NCED California Conservation Easement Database (CCED) National Conservation Easement Database (NCED) conservationeasement.us
Easement Data CCED is in process: 700,000 NCED easement acres in California 1,100,000+ easement acres in draft CCED GIS inventory 135 agencies/land trusts 1.4+ million total easement acres exist permissions challenge
Easement Data CCED in process - key issues: Cooperation in including easement data in CCED o o Privacy? Trespass? RESOLUTION: No names, No public access Many kinds of easements how account for? Alignment of easements to parcels
Directions for CPAD/CCED Funding/sustainability most important $125k/yr? funding, depends on institutional home Partnerships with key agencies/organizations Data improvement more reviews by agencies Parcels, alignment Connections to national PAD-US Expand users, get feedback
What YOU Can Do Use the data download at www.calands.org Submit changes www.calands.org/revise Identify contacts at land owning agencies Describe your experience with using CPAD (online survey, through CALands.org ) CONTACT: cpad@calands.org
1 Information and Mapping in the Public Interest www.greeninfo.org For CPAD: cpad@calands.org
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