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This page last updated: 03/15/2012
Metadata created using Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines
| Originator | Metropolitan Council | |||
| Abstract | This dataset includes parcels that are enrolled in the Metropolitan Agricultural Preserves Act, Minnesota Statute 473H. The goal of this act is to encourage preservation of agricultural lands by providing a package of benefits to keep land in long-term agricultural use. At the request of the Metropolitan Council, a table is created by each county to reflect the status of parcels in the program at the end of each calendar year. The Council links these tables to the MetroGIS Regional Parcel Dataset to create a shape file of Agricultural Preserves. | |||
| Browse Graphic | View a sample of the data. | |||
| Time Period of Content Date | 2008 | |||
| Currentness Reference | December 2008 | |||
| Access Constraints | None | |||
| Use Constraints | None | |||
| Distributor Organization | Metropolitan Council | |||
| Ordering Instructions | This dataset is distributed on the internet by clicking below after 'Online Linkage'. Doing so will tell your browser to download a 'ZIP' file which will contain the following: - ArcView shape files - metadata for the dataset (.htm) - NOTICE.RTF, an important notice about this dataset that can be read by any word processing software. Additionally, this dataset is available for direct use via one or more map services. More information about what a map service is can be found at http://www.datafinder.org/services/ The specific map service and layer name for this dataset can be found by clicking the 'Services' link for this dataset in the DataFinder Catalog at http://www.datafinder.org/catalog/ . |
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| Distribution Liability | NOTICE: The Geographic Information System (GIS) Data to which this notice is attached are made available pursuant to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13). THE GIS DATA ARE PROVIDED TO YOU AS IS AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY AS TO THEIR PERFORMANCE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The GIS Data were developed by the Metropolitan Council for its own internal business purposes. The Metropolitan Council does not represent or warrant that the GIS Data or the data documentation are error-free, complete, current, or accurate. You are responsible for any consequences resulting from your use of the GIS Data or your reliance on the GIS Data. You should consult the data documentation for this particular GIS Data to determine the limitations of the GIS Data and the precision with which the GIS Data may depict distance, direction, location, or other geographic features. If you transmit or provide the GIS Data (or any portion of it) to another user, it is recommended that the GIS Data include a copy of this disclaimer and this metadata. | |||
| Online Linkage | I AGREE to the notice in "Distribution Liability" above. Clicking to agree will begin the download process (See Ordering Instructions above for details.) | |||
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1. Identification Information
2. Data Quality Information
3. Spatial Data Organization Information
4. Spatial Reference Information
5. Entity and Attribute Information
6. Distribution Information
7. Metadata Reference Information
| Section 1 | Identification Information | Top of page | ||
| Originator | Metropolitan Council | |||
| Title | Agricultural Preserves 2008 | |||
| Abstract | This dataset includes parcels that are enrolled in the Metropolitan Agricultural Preserves Act, Minnesota Statute 473H. The goal of this act is to encourage preservation of agricultural lands by providing a package of benefits to keep land in long-term agricultural use. At the request of the Metropolitan Council, a table is created by each county to reflect the status of parcels in the program at the end of each calendar year. The Council links these tables to the MetroGIS Regional Parcel Dataset to create a shape file of Agricultural Preserves. | |||
| Purpose | To track lands involved in the Agricultural Preserves Program | |||
| Time Period of Content Date | 2008 | |||
| Currentness Reference | December 2008 | |||
| Progress | Complete | |||
| Maintenance and Update Frequency | Annually | |||
| Spatial Extent of Data | Twin Cities 7 County Metropolitan Area. This includes the counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington in Minnesota. | |||
| Bounding Coordinates | -94.022062 -92.749020 45.392463 44.467198 |
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| Place Keywords | Anoka County, Carver County, Dakota County, Hennepin County, Scott County, Washington County | |||
| Theme Keywords | farming, agriculture, Agricultural Preserves | |||
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| Access Constraints | None | |||
| Use Constraints | None | |||
| Contact Person Information | Victoria Dupre,
Metropolitan Council 390 Robert Street North St. Paul, MN 55101 Phone: 651-602-1621 FAX: E-mail: victoria.dupre@metc.state.mn.us | |||
| Browse Graphic | View a sample of the data. | |||
| Browse Graphic File Description | A sample map of the agricultural preserves 2008 dataset | |||
| Associated Data Sets | Regional Parcel Dataset - Seven County Twin Cities Metropolitan Area http://www.datafinder.org/metadata/metrogis_regional_parcels.htm |
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| Section 2 | Data Quality Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Attribute Accuracy | ||||
| Logical Consistency | ||||
| Completeness | Entire seven county geographic area is covered. | |||
| Horizontal Positional Accuracy | ||||
| Lineage | This dataset includes parcels that are enrolled in the Metropolitan Agricultural Preserves Act, Minnesota Statute 473H. The goal of this act is to encourage preservation of agricultural lands by providing a package of benefits to keep land in long-term agricultural use. DATA SOURCE The Metropolitan Council Office of Local Assistance gets data from each county listing parcels enrolled in the Agricultural Preserves program. The Metropolitan Council then creates a shape file showing the parcels involved in the program. Users may relate the tabular data recieved from each county to this metro-wide agricultural preserve parcels layer. DATA PROCESSING STEPS In response to the Council request for a list of parcels enrolled in the Agricultural Preserves program, each county sent a list either as a Word document, Excel Spreadsheet or ESRI Shapefile. We received files from all but Ramsey County, which has no parcels enrolled in the agricultural preserves program. Each list was moved in to a DBF table and joined to the current (1/1/2009) county parcel database, then matching parcels were exported to a new shape file for each county. All attributes except for PIN were stripped from the new shapefile and the 6 shape files were MERGEd together using the Geoprocessing Wizard from ArcToolBox. We received 2741 PINS listed as enrolled in the agricultural preserves program, 2726 matched (99.45% match) and 15 PINS did not match (1 in Anoka Co., 3 in Carver Co., 6 in Dakota County, 1 in Hennepin, 3 in Scott County and 1 in Washington). This shape file can be joined with each of the agricultural preserve DBF tables with the original data provided by each of the counties. Anoka County = 51 parcels, Carver County = 1172 parcels, Dakota County = 962 parcels, Hennepin County = 216 parcels, Scott County = 111 parcels, and Washington County = 217 parcels. ABOUT THE PROGRAM Before land can be enrolled in the Agricultural Preserves Program, it must meet certification for enrollment eligibility. The local unit of government must adopt a comprehensive plan that designates long-term agricultural land and establishes zoning for those areas at a density of no more than one dwelling unit per forty acres. If all requirements are met, the land is considered certified and eligible for enrollment into the program. The land owner may then enroll the land to receive the program's bennifits. Enrolled lands will have a restrictive covenanat recorded with the property deed. Enrollment status may be indefinite, or may have an expiration date (which must be at least 8 years after the date notice is given by the landowner). When an expiration date is reached, the enrollment status expires and the benefits terminate. At such a time, the landowner must re-enroll the land into the program to continue receiving the program's benefits. All or a portion of a Public Land Survey (PLS) quarter quarter section (forty') may be enrolled in the program but the active enrollment acreage cannot exceed the corresponding certified acreage.' |
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| Section 3 | Spatial Data Organization Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Native Data Set Environment | ||||
| Geographic Reference for Tabular Data | PIN number | |||
| Spatial Object Type | Vector | |||
| Vendor Specific Object Types | Polygon | |||
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| Section 4 | Spatial Reference Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Horizontal Coordinate Scheme | Universal Transverse Mercator | |||
| Ellipsoid | GRS80 | |||
| Horizontal Datum | NAD83 | |||
| Horizontal Units | meters | |||
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| UTM Zone Number | 15 | |||
| Section 5 | Entity and Attribute Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Entity and Attribute Overview | PIN: Unique regional parcel ID comprised of the county PIN with the county |
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| Section 6 | Distribution Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Publisher | Metropolitan Council | |||
| Publication Date | 03/03/2009 | |||
| Contact Person Information | Mark Kotz GIS Database Administrator Metropolitan Council 390 Robert Street North St. Paul, MN 55101 Phone: 651-602-1644 FAX: E-mail: mark.kotz@metc.state.mn.us |
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| Distributor's Data Set Identifier | AgriculturalPreserves2008 | |||
| Transfer Format Name | Shapefile | |||
| Transfer Format Version Number | ArcGIS 9x | |||
| Transfer Size | Less than 2MB for ZIP file | |||
| Ordering Instructions | This dataset is distributed on the internet by clicking below after 'Online Linkage'. Doing so will tell your browser to download a 'ZIP' file which will contain the following: - ArcView shape files - metadata for the dataset (.htm) - NOTICE.RTF, an important notice about this dataset that can be read by any word processing software. Additionally, this dataset is available for direct use via one or more map services. More information about what a map service is can be found at http://www.datafinder.org/services/ The specific map service and layer name for this dataset can be found by clicking the 'Services' link for this dataset in the DataFinder Catalog at http://www.datafinder.org/catalog/ . |
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| Distribution Liability | NOTICE: The Geographic Information System (GIS) Data to which this notice is attached are made available pursuant to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13). THE GIS DATA ARE PROVIDED TO YOU AS IS AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY AS TO THEIR PERFORMANCE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The GIS Data were developed by the Metropolitan Council for its own internal business purposes. The Metropolitan Council does not represent or warrant that the GIS Data or the data documentation are error-free, complete, current, or accurate. You are responsible for any consequences resulting from your use of the GIS Data or your reliance on the GIS Data. You should consult the data documentation for this particular GIS Data to determine the limitations of the GIS Data and the precision with which the GIS Data may depict distance, direction, location, or other geographic features. If you transmit or provide the GIS Data (or any portion of it) to another user, it is recommended that the GIS Data include a copy of this disclaimer and this metadata. | |||
| Online Linkage | I AGREE to the notice in "Distribution Liability" above. Clicking to agree will begin the download process (See Ordering Instructions above for details.) | |||
| Section 7 | Metadata Reference Information | Top of full metadata | Top of page | |
| Metadata Date | 03/15/2012 | |||
| Contact Person Information | Tanya Mayer,
GIS Coordinator Metropolitan Council 390 Robert Street North St. Paul, MN 55101 Phone: 651-602-1604 FAX: E-mail: tanya.mayer@metc.state.mn.us |
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| Metadata Standard Name | Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines | |||
| Metadata Standard Version | 1.2 | |||
| Metadata Standard Online Linkage | http://www.gis.state.mn.us/stds/metadata.htm | |||
This page last updated: 03/15/2012
