California Protected Area Database (CPAD) for development of the Parcel Inventory dataset for the Housing Element Site Selection (HESS) Pre-Screening Tool. This feature set contains a subset of the statewide source. Its geographic extent covers the San Francisco Bay Region. CPAD inventories open space lands that have been protected for open space uses through fee ownerships. CPAD is not a database of all public lands – for example, it does not include public buildings, water treatment sites, or other non-open space public land. CPAD is suitable for a wide range of planning, assessment, analysis, and display purposes. CPAD should not be used as the basis for official regulatory, legal, or other such governmental actions without more detailed review of current official land records in the area of focus. This feature set contains the CPAD Super Unit features of the database. Super Units are aggregations of Units (which themselves are aggregations of Holdings) to create use-focused polygons for each site name (e.g. Las Trampas Regional Wilderness). Super Units are useful for recreation applications and for cartographic representation. Note: ● Super Units aggregate units based on the managing agency. ● Super Units maintain distinct units for different types of public access. ● Super Units cross county boundaries. ● Super Units have fewer attributes and are primarily used for cartography/display purposes, and to support recreational access applications. The lands in CPAD are defined by their owning and managing agencies at the Holdings and Units levels. At the Super Units level (a version of the release meant primarily for recreation applications, and for general cartography), CPAD lands are defined simply by name, managing agency, and public access. Access to CPAD GIS data is primarily through the State of California’s Atlas open data portal – a download link and more information about CPAD, including a PDF manual about the data, is at https://www.calands.org/cpad/. CPAD is released in shapefile format. The state site also hosts map services with CPAD data displayed by Access Type, Agency Classification, and Agency Level.
This dataset has the following 16 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| access_typ | access_typ | text | Designates the level of public access allowed for the protected area. Column values are Open Access, Restricted, and No Public Access. For areas with some level of allowed public access, 'Open Access' means open to the public for agency-designated use and 'Restricted Access' is limited (permit required, days/hours limited, etcetera). | Open Access No Public Access Restricted Access Unknown Access view top 100 |
| park_name | park_name | text | Name of the Super Unit/Park. | Creekside Park Washington Park Central Park Civic Center Park Centennial Park view top 100 |
| park_url | park_url | text | Park website, if available. | https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/cs/parks/parks/city_parks.asp http://www.openspaceauthority.org http://www.cupertino.org/ http://www.openspaceauthority.org/ view top 100 |
| suid_nma | suid_nma | number | Unique identifier for the Super Unit. | 22386 20140 26752 23909 20369 view top 100 |
| mng_ag_id | mng_ag_id | number | Unique identifier for managing agency. | 1303 1300 2032 1228 2045 view top 100 |
| mng_agency | mng_agency | text | Full name of managing agency. | San Jose, City of San Francisco, City and County of East Bay Regional Park District Oakland, City of Hayward Area Recreation and Park District view top 100 |
| mng_ag_lev | mng_ag_lev | text | Jurisdiction level of managing agency: City, County, Special District, Joint, State, Federal, Non Profit, or Private. | City Special District County Non Profit State view top 100 |
| mng_ag_typ | mng_ag_typ | text | Subtype of agency level. Column Values are FEDERAL (Federal Agency), STATE (State Agency), JOINT (Joint Powers Authority), COUNTY (County Agency - Parks, County Agency - Other), CITY (City Agency), SPECIAL DISTRICT (Airport District, Cemetery District, Community Services District, Conservation District, Fire District, Flood District, Irrigation District, Metropolitan Planning Organization, Open Space District, Port/Harbor District, Recreation/Parks District, Sanitation District, School District, Transportation Agency, Water District, Special District - Other), NON PROFIT (Non Profit - Conservation, Non Profit - Education, Non Profit - Land Trust, Non Profit - Other), or PRIVATE Conservation, Commercial, Education, Home Owners Association, Mitigation Bank, Tribal, Utility, Other).( | City Agency Recreation/Parks District State Agency County Agency - Parks Non Profit - Land Trust view top 100 |
| agncy_web | agncy_web | text | Managing agency website. | http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=204 http://sfrecpark.org/ http://www.ebparks.org/ http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/opr/index.htm http://www.haywardrec.org/ view top 100 |
| layer | layer | text | Agency classifications used for symbology, based on State of California conventions. | City Special District County Non Governmental Organization California Department of Fish and Wildlife view top 100 |
| acres | acres | number | Acres, calculated by GIS (Geographic Information System). | 1.868 0.386 0.349 0.667 6.784 view top 100 |
| label_name | label_name | text | Abbreviated Name for cartographic labeling (e.g. “Sequoia NP”). If the unit name is “unnamed” or “unknown”, this field is left blank. | Creekside Park Washington Park Central Park Civic Ctr. Park view top 100 |
| yr_est | yr_est | number | Year the park or management unit was formed. This field is defined at the Super Unit level and carried down to the Unit and Holding level. Date field in YYYY format. | 0 2000 1973 1961 1940 view top 100 |
| shape_Length | shape_length | number | Feature boundary length in decimal degrees. | 0.03628452768647007 0.004345640480644518 0.07352836679654959 0.0072562288003741714 0.008585449858134446 view top 100 |
| shape_Area | shape_area | number | Feature area in square decimal degrees. | 0.0001787354084602377 0.0000010010177122377644 0.0000019322814242187853 2.946773738631035E-7 0.0000012324913193588652 view top 100 |
| geometry | geometry | multipolygon | Feature geometry. Coordinates defining the features. | view top 100 |