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Paulding CountyUnified Development Ordinance

Title 3 — Development Regulations, Chapter 420 — Geospatial Information System (GIS)

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§ 420-10

Purpose

Paulding County has adopted Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) technology for the management and analysis of spatial data. The GIS requirements are designed to support data maintenance, data accuracy, and data compatibility relating to the County’s Enterprise GIS.

These requirements shall apply to all site plans for re-zoning applications, development plans (subdivision developments, multi-family residential developments, commercial developments and industrial developments) and design plans (for County Projects). It is the intent of these requirements to:

420-10.01 Aid the process of updating the spatial data stored within the County’s Enterprise

GIS with the inclusion of new developments and projects as described above, thus helping to ensure the currency of the system’s data through a more efficient data maintenance program; and to

420-10.02 Perpetually increase the accuracy of the spatial data stored within the Enterprise

GIS; and to

420-10.03 Ensure that the data, which must be submitted in a digital file, meets specifications

ensuring its compatibility with the County’s Enterprise GIS.

§ 420-20

Geodetic Control

420-20.01 Geodetic Control Network.

The County has established a Geodetic Control Network to provide accurate control as a base for its Enterprise GIS and for use by surveyors, engineers and others. The County will make available all pertinent Geodetic Control Network information.

420-20.02 Coordinate Systems.

The County has adopted the Georgia State Plane Coordinate System (West Zone) and the 1983 North American Datum (NAD83) for horizontal georeferencing and the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) for vertical georeferencing within its Enterprise GIS and its Geodetic Control Network (Note: NAD83 GA State Plan West FIPS 1002). Orientation shall be to Grid north. The adopted units are U.S. survey feet. All site plans, plats, as-builts and design plans shall be based on these coordinate systems, data, orientation and units.

420-20.03 Required Ties to Geodetic Control

All site plans, plats, as-builts and design plans shall have a minimum of two separate boundary points tied to at least one of the County’s Geodetic Control Network monuments if they are located within 500 feet. The basis of bearing for the plans shall conform to Section 420-20.04.

420-20.04 Identification & Description of Tie-In Points.
A.The two boundary points tied to the County’s Geodetic Control Network shall be identified on the plat as CTR1 and CTR2.
B.Each site plan, plat, as-built and design plan shall include a Geodetic Control Table as shown in Table 420.1:

Table 420.1 Geodetic Control Table Geodetic Control Boundary Tie-In Points ID Northing Easting Bearing Distance ID Northing Easting Elevation CTR 1 CTR 2

C.The bearings and distances provided in the table shall describe the bearings and distances from the Geodetic Control Network monument to the boundary tie-in points, and shall conform to Section 420-20.04.
420-20.05 Maintenance & Densification of Geodetic Control Network.

The County will ensure the proper maintenance of its Geodetic Control Network, including the replacement of destroyed monuments, and will pursue ongoing densification of the network as needed. Missing or destroyed monuments shall be reported to the Information Technology Department’s GIS Division.

§ 420-30

Digital Submission Standards

420-30.01 Scope.

Development and design plans are created using Computer Aided Design (CAD) software. It is the goal of Paulding County to leverage these advanced technologies to expedite the design and plan review processes and to enhance the maintenance operations for the County’s GIS data.

Digital data files, conforming to the following standards, shall be submitted to the County for all site plans, plats, as-builts and design plans as specified in Section 420-30.02.

420-30.02 Required Files.
Digital files must be submitted for the following items:
A.Boundary Surveys for Rezoning Applications
B.Preliminary Plats
C.Construction Plans (including Site Plans, Utility Plans and Landscape Plans)
D.Final Plats
E.Design Plans for all County Projects (including Right-of-Way Plans)
420-30.03 General Requirements.
A.The digital data must be mapped to scale and georeferenced to the County’s adopted coordinate systems and datum described in Section 420-20.02.
B.The digital data must be tied to the County’s Geodetic Control Network as described in Sections 420-20.03 and 420-20.04 if located within 500 feet.
C.The digital data shall include all available features and corresponding layer names indicated in Table 420.2 shown below, and shall be organized by layer following way: bentwater_phaseG.
420-30.04 Data Format.

Digital data files shall be provided to the County in one of the following formats:

A.DXF (AutoCAD Drawing Exchange File)
B.DWG (AutoCAD Drawing File)
C.DGN (Microstation)
D.SHP (ESRI Shape File)
E.Personal Geodatabase File (ESRI ArcGIS File)

a list of these layers shall also be submitted, conforming to Section 420-30.07 of those requirements.

420-30.05 Media.

Digital files shall be submitted to the County on removable media (flash drive for example) or via the internet through an online submission application and shall be appropriately identified. An open standard data compression, including but not limited to WinZip, may be used if necessary.

420-30.06 Required Data Layers and Documentation.

Each digital file submitted shall include Digital Layering Structure as recommended in able 420.2. A text file (in a County approved format) identifying and describing all data layers included with the submission shall accompany each digital data file.

Such files shall follow the naming convention described in Section 420-30.03 with ‘_layers’ added at the end. (Example: bentwater_phaseG_layers)

420-30.07 Required Metadata.

A text file (in a County approved format) containing the information {metadata} outlined in Table 420.3 shall accompany each digital data file. Metadata files shall follow the naming convention described in Section 420-30.03 with ‘_meta’ added at the end. (Example: bentwater_phaseG_meta)

Table 420.3
Digital Data Metadata
Submittal Date:
Development Name:
Phase/s:
Creation/Revision Date:
County:
City:
Parent Parcel Number/s:
Number of Lots:
Geodetic Control:
Paulding County Geodetic Control Monument/s Referenced (ID#):
GPS Used (Y/N)?:
GPS Unit Type:
PDOP of Control Points:
Correction Method (postprocessing, RTD, RTK):
Prepared By (Firm Name):
Engineer or Surveyor of Record:
Telephone Number:
Address:
Drawing File Name:
Drawing File Format:
Table 420.2
Layer #Layer NameFeature TypeLayer Description
44SSNODEPointSanitary Sewer Manholes, Pumps, Junctions, etc.
45SSVALVEPointSanitary Sewer Valves
46SSTEXTTextAnnotation describing sanitary sewer (SS) features
47SSEASPolylineSanitary Sewer Easements
48
49SDLINKPolylineStorm Drain Pipes, etc.
50SDNODEPointStorm Drain Manholes, Junction Boxes, etc.
51SDTEXTTextAnnotation describing storm drain(SD) features
52SDPONDPolylineDetention/Retention Ponds
53SDEASPolylineStorm Drain Easements
54
55RWLINKPolylineReuse Water Pipes
56RWNODEPointReuse Water Junctions, Fittings, etc.
57RWVALVEPointReuse Water Valves
58RWMTRPointReuse Water Meters
59RWHYDPointReuse Water Hydrants, Blow-Off Assemblies, etc.
60RWTEXTTextAnnotation describing reuse water (RW) features
61RWEASPolylineReuse Water Easements
62
63GASPolylineGas Features
64ELECTRPolylineElectrical Features
65TELCOPolylineTelephone Features
66CTVPolylineCable TV Features
67CTVACCPointCable TV Access Points
68FIBERPolylineFiber Datacom Features
69FIBERACCPointFiber Datacom Access Points
70WIRLACCPointWireless Datacom Access Points
71UTTEXTTextAnnotation describing features 63 through 70
72
73
74LOTNUMTextLot Number Text
75LOTDIMTextLot Dimension Text
76SUBNAMETextSubdivision Name Text
77STRNAMETextStreet Name/Number Text
78RRNAMETextRailroad Name Text
79HYDTEXTTextHydrographic Features Text
80EASETEXTTextEasement Text (for items 29, 30, 31, 32, 41, 47, 53, 61)
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