BROWNFIELD AREAS
	LAYER: BROWNFIELD_AREAS
	DIRECTORY: /AEDATA/EcoDev/Brownfield_Areas.shp
	DIRECTORY: /IPub.SDE/Brownfield_Areas
	TYPE: POLYGON
Shapefile is downloadable from the Volusia County GIS Data Download page or the FDEP Geospatial Open Data page REST Service: Brownfield Areas
Abstract: Brownfields are defined by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) as abandoned, idled, or underused industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. The primary goals of Florida's Brownfields Redevelopment Act (Ch. 97-277, Laws of Florida, codified at ss. 376.77-.85, F.S.) are to reduce health and environmental hazards on existing commercial and industrial sites that are abandoned or underused due to these hazards and create financial and regulatory incentives to encourage redevelopment and voluntary cleanup of contaminated properties. A 'brownfield area' means a contiguous area of one or more brownfield sites, some of which may not be contaminated, that has been designated as such by a local government resolution. Such areas may include all or portions of community redevelopment areas, enterprise zones, empowerment zones, other such designated economically deprived communities and areas, and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designated brownfield pilot projects. This layer provides a polygon representation of the boundaries of these designated Brownfield Areas in Volusia County. The data presented here is an extract of the the FDEP statewide Brownfield Areas shapefile and contains only areas within Volusia County. Purpose: Brownfields data is provided to assist in the determination of areas with potential for economic revitalization. Accuracy: This layer provides a polygon representation of the boundaries of designated Brownfield Areas within Florida where a resolution has been passed by a local municipality. These polygons were created using various methodologies for creating digital spatial data depending upon the type of information provided by the municipality within the resolution and loosely dependent upon the cadastral (parcel) boundaries provided by the County Property Appraisers at the time when the spatial boundaries were developed. Since the data quality of the cadastral layer varies from county to county, the data quality of the brownfield area polygons will also vary. These methodologies include the following list: Coordinate Geometry (COGO) created from legal descriptions of the area specified in the resolution. Many of the brownfields include a large area with hundreds of property parcels. These boundaries were compared with the most recent cadastral boundaries available from the County Property Appraiser and spatially adjusted where necessary to clearly include the property parcels marked for redevelopment, the roadway right of way areas (where applicable), city boundaries, political boundaries, and other economic incentive zones. Shapefiles, Coverages and CADD files of the area were provided by the local municipality or planning and development agencies in some cases. These shapefiles were used without modification to the geometry to match cadastral boundaries. Coverages and CADD files were converted to a format compatible with the process software. Paper Maps showing the scaled boundaries of the area in relation to property parcels, geographic landmarks, and land surveys are sometimes included in the resolution. These maps are compared to available GIS boundaries in order to locate the specific property parcels referenced. The available cadastral boundaries are used to represent the area where only paper maps or parcel folio numbers are provided. All inquiries concerning this data should be directed to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) OTIS/GIS Section. GIS.Librarian@dep.state.fl.us Online linkage to the Original Metadata Update Frequency: Annually. Last updated 1/13/2021.
Spatial Domain
West Coordinate:			-81.359054
East Coordinate:			-80.928748
North Coordinate:			29.246552
South Coordinate:			28.846581
Spatial Data Information
Data Type:			digital map
Data Format:			SDE Feature Class
Data Projection:			NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Florida_East_FIPS_0901_Feet
	FIELDS
	NAME	DESCRIPTION
	USERNAME	Technician or analyst who processed the graphics for each feature in the spatial data layer
	DATESTAMP	Date when the graphics were finished for each feature in the spatial data layer
	SOURCE	Source of information and/or data for each feature in the spatial data layer
	METHOD	Code to denote processing methodology for creating the graphics for each feature in the spatial data layer “SHP” = Graphic was copied and pasted from source shapefile(s) “PAPER” = Graphic was heads up digitized from paper maps
	AREA_ID	Brownfield Area ID assigned by the program as "BF" + "DEP county code (2 characters)" + "year of resolution date (two characters)" + "sequential area number for the specified county (2 characters)" + "000"
	AREA_NAME	Name of the area designated by a local municipality by resolution as a designated brownfield area
	CITY	Florida city in which the designated brownfield area lies
	COUNTY	Florida county in which the designated brownfield area lies
	DISTRICT	FDEP District in which the designated brownfield area lies
	ACREAGE	Number of acres included within the designated brownfield area
	RESOLUTION_NUMBER	No field definition provided by FDEP
	RESOLUTION_DATE	No field definition provided by FDEP
	XCOORD	Longitude coordinate in feet based on NAD83 State Plane Florida East
	YCOORD	Latitude coordinate in feet based on NAD83 State Plane Florida East
	LATITUDE	Latitude coordinate in decimal degrees
	LONGITUDE	Longitude coordinate in decimal degrees
	LAT_DD	Latitude - Degrees location identifier
	LAT_MM	Latitude - Minutes location identifier
	LAT_SS	Latitude - Seconds location identifier
	LONG_DD	Longitude - Degrees location identifier
	LONG_MM	Longitude - Minutes location identifier
	LONG_SS	Longitude - Seconds location identifier
	DOCUMENTS	No field definition provided by FDEP