Description: This layer represents the geographic boundaries of supervisor districts within Fairfax County.Contact: Fairfax County Office of ElectionsData Accessibility: Publicly available Update frequency: As needed Creation date: 6/1/2011 Layer name: REGMGR.SUPERVISOR_DISTRICTSDataset name: REGMGR.ELECTORAL
Copyright Text: Fairfax County GIS and Mapping Services for creating and reviewing the data, and various Fairfax County Agencies, including the Office of County Attorney and the Office of the Electoral Board and General Registrar
Description: The Comprehensive Plan (the Plan) is required by state law to be used as a guide to decision-making about the natural and built environment by the county’s Board of Supervisors, and others such as the Planning Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals. It is also a guide for county staff and the public to use in the planning process. The initial classification of the Comprehensive Plan starts with the four plan areas. The data has been curated since the evolution from paper maps in the digital record managment change around 2000.This data has been kept and maintained by the department of Planning & Development.Contact: Fairfax County Department of Planning & DevelopmentData Accessibility: Publicly available to Fairfax County Employees and represented to citizens and the public through several GIS applications.Update Frequency: RARELYCreation Date: 2000Feature Layer Name: DPZMGR.PLANNING_AREASFeature Set Name: DPZMGR.PLANNING
Copyright Text: Fairfax County Department of Planning and Development
Description: The Comprehensive Plan (the Plan) is required by state law to be used as a guide to decision-making about the natural and built environment by the county’s Board of Supervisors, and others such as the Planning Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals. It is also a guide for county staff and the public to use in the planning process. The second tier classification of the Comprehensive Plan geographies are the fourteen Planning Districts.The data has been curated since the evolution from paper maps in the digital record managment change around 2000.This data has been kept and maintained by the department of Planning & Development.Contact: Fairfax County Department of Planning & DevelopmentData Accessibility: Publicly available to Fairfax County Employees and represented to citizens and the public through several GIS applications.Update Frequency: RARELYCreation Date: 2000Feature Layer Name: DPZMGR.PLANNING_DISTRICTSFeature Set Name: DPZMGR.PLANNING
Copyright Text: Fairfax County Department of Planning and Development
Description: The Comprehensive Plan (the Plan) is required by state law to be used as a guide to decision-making about the natural and built environment by the county’s Board of Supervisors, and others such as the Planning Commission and the Board of Zoning Appeals. It is also a guide for county staff and the public to use in the planning process. The third tier classification of the Comprehensive Plan geographies are the ninty-eight Planning Sectors.The data has been curated since the evolution from paper maps in the digital record managment change around 2000.This data has been kept and maintained by the department of Planning & Development.Contact: Fairfax County Department of Planning & DevelopmentData Accessibility: Publicly available to Fairfax County Employees and represented to citizens and the public through several GIS applications.Update Frequency: RARELYCreation Date: 2000Feature Layer Name: DPZMGR.PLANNING_SECTORSFeature Set Name: DPZMGR.PLANNING
Copyright Text: Fairfax County Department of Planning and Development
Description: This layer contains the definitive boundaries of Fairfax County's: Urban Center, Suburban Centers, Community Business Centers, Transit Station Areas, Industrial Areas, and Large Institutional Land Areas as defined in the Concept for Future Development map that appears in the Comprehensive Plan Area Plan texts. THIS LAYER HAS BEEN UPDATED TO MARCH 6, 2018, to include boundary changes in Plan Amendment 2017-07, which added Lincolnia CBC.RELATED LAYERS - Two other types of place: Suburban Neighborhoods and Low Density Residential Areas are depicted on a separate SDE layer, DPZMGR:RESIDENTIAL_AREAS_CONCEPTUAL See also the layer: DPZMGR.SUPPPLEMENTARY_PLANNING_AREAS for additional bounded planning-related areas.Contact: Fairfax County Department of Planning & DevelopmentData Accessibility: Publicly available to Fairfax County Employees and represented to citizens and the public through several GIS applications.Update Frequency: PERIODICCreation Date: UNKOWNFeature Layer Name: DPZMGR.DEVELOPMENT_CENTERSFeature Set Name: DPZMGR.PLANNING
Copyright Text: Department of Planning and Development
Description: Each geographic unit in this feature class is associated with one or more development centers, as defined by the Fairfax County Comprehensive Plan. The development center layer is available on the County’s GIS network (DPZMGR.DEVELOPMENT_CENTERS). However, in order to display more than one development center associated with a geographic unit, DPZMGR.Comp_Plan_Land_Units is related to another GIS table called Comp_Plan_LU_DevelCenters. If a geographic unit belongs to more than one development center, the data indicate which one is the primary development center and which on is the secondary. Below is a list and description of the fields within this feature class and its related table.Contact: Fairfax County Department of Planning & DevelopmentData Accessibility: Publicly available to Fairfax County Employees and represented to citizens and the public through several GIS applications.Update Frequency: PERIODICCreation Date: 2009Feature Layer Name: DPZMGR.COMP_PLAN_UNITSFeature Set Name: DPZMGR.PLANNING
Copyright Text: Department of Planning & Development
Description: This layer depicts planned land use at the baseline level. Refer to the Comprehensive Plan text for interpretation and for options above the baseline level.This layer has been updated to include Amendment 2017-15, adopted by the BOS July 31, 2018 and all previous amendments.NOTE: The baseline change from 2017-13 Dulles Suburban Center Study has not been made to this layeras of this writing (8-27-2018), pending a decision by the Planning Division on the shape of the new baseline poly.Contact: Fairfax County Department of Planning & DevelopmentData Accessibility: Publicly available to Fairfax County Employees and represented to citizens and the public through several GIS applications.Update Frequency: PERIODICCreation Date: 2000Feature Layer Name: DPZMGR.PLANNED_LAND_USE_BASE_CURRENTFeature Set Name: DPZMGR.PLANNING
Copyright Text: This layer was maintained by conventional cartographic methods from June 1976 until the August 2004 delivery of a digital layer prepared by contractor Baker Corporation. That digital layer has subsequently been maintained by DPZ staff, and exists currently as this SDE layer.
Description: Contact: Fairfax County Department of Planning and DevelopmentData Accessibility: Internal Use Only and disseminated to the public through web GIS applicationsUpdate frequency: As needed; This layer is updated by DPD as the BOS authorizes and adopts amendments.Creation date: 12/13/2013Layer name: DPZMGR.PLAN_AMENDMENT_DATABASEDataset name: DPZMGR.COMP_PLAN_AMENDMENTSField Definitions:Type:This refers to the type of amendment – Area Plans Review (APR), Out-of-turn Plan amendment (OTPA), special study (ST), work program item (W), Site-Specific Plan Amendment (SSPA)Spvr_Dist:Supervisor districts included in the amendment. Note that over time, district boundaries have changed…amendments are classified based upon the district they were located in at the time of authorizationAdopt_Num:Adopted text number (if adopted)Authorized:Date when the BOS authorized a proposed amendment to the Comprehensive Plan. This means the BOS directed county staff to begin the study and analysis of a proposed amendment, it does not mean the amendment was incorporated into the Plan.Adopted:Date when a proposed amendment to the Plan was adopted by the BOS and formally incorporated into the Comprehensive Plan text and map.Purpose:General characterization of the amendment topic. Most are Land use/Int (land use or intensity change proposed) but the amendments cover a wide variety of topics. Many studies cover multiple policy areas, but are categorized as Land use/Int if a primary purpose of the amendment was to change land use recommendations. This is distinguished from Land Use Related, which recognizes amendments where recommendations or conditions were proposed to be changed, but did not involve a change in land use or density/intensity.Acres_Log:The “official” acreage noted in the staff report at the time of the amendment. Not all amendments have had an official acreage associated with them.Cycle:Refers to the APR or SSPA cycle for an item, or in the case of current work program items, the year in which the item was added to the work program.Item_Num:The number assigned to each Plan amendment. If this says “pending” it is an item currently on the work program that is not yet underway.Notes:For APR or SSPA items, this is where the nominator is listed. For OTPAs and studies, the Supervisor who made the motion to authorize the amendment is listed. There may be additional miscellaneous information in this field, such as related amendments, as is warranted.Name:The name of the amendment or study. This is generally only found for ST, OTPA, SSPA, and W items.Outcome:The outcome of the item. This is generally straightforward, except in instances where items have been deferred or rescinded. Any item with a second item in parentheses means a second action was taken after the first. The second action is in parentheses. Temp_num:This is an internal number used to document work program items that have not yet commenced. The only real purpose of this number is for recordkeeping, so you likely won’t be concerned with it.Acres_gis:Acres as calculated in GIS. Since all mapping projections have some inherent distortion, this is not an exact acreage. This figure is the area of the item’s polygon, which may include some right-of-way. This has been calculated so that for items without a value in Acres_Log, you can still get a general idea of the amendment size.Mapped:Many of the amendments in this database cover quite a large area. Some cover the whole county. They have all been given a shape so that we can account for them in this file, but you may find that the presence of these larger amendments obscures some of the smaller, site-specific amendments you may be researching. Amendments labeled as “yes” tend to be smaller and account for land use and intensity/density changes, while those labeled as “no” are larger in size and tend to be related to policy topics or editorial updates. This field allows you to query out the geographically larger amendments so that they don’t, for lack of a better phrase, get in your way. Of course, you can symbolize this layer however you want, which will allow you show the locations or types of amendments most relevant to you.FFMAP:YES=current item which appears on DPZ interactive Web maps. NO=current item whose character (typically Countywide, Editorial, or Policy) is such that it cannot be mapped on DPZ interactive Web maps, or recent item which was shown on the DPZ interactive Web maps, but is no longer current and has been removed. <Null>=not shown on DPZ interactive Web maps because item predates Web map and item is resolved. ?=will be mapped and shown on DPZ interactive Web maps as soon as location can be determined.
Copyright Text: Marshall Keeney; Fairfax County Department of Planning & Development; Originally compiled by DPD Planning Division.
Description: Areas of approved zoning for Fairfax County, Town of Herndon, and Town of Vienna. This layer contains the zoning code, the zoning category, the jurisdiction, a proffer flag, and a public land flag.Contact: Fairfax County GIS Division Data Accessibility: Publicly available Update frequency: DailyCreation date: 1/1/2001 Layer name: GISMGR.ZONINGDataset name: GISMGR.ZONING
Copyright Text: The data set was created by Analytical Surveys Incorporated (ASI) and Landata under contract to Fairfax County. Quality control checks were performed by Engineering Systems Incorporated and Dewberry and Davis. Staff from the GIS branch were also used for quality control checking. Since 2001 Fairfax County staff have been solely responsible for maintaining this data.
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Description: Historic Overlay Districts (HODs) are bounded areas created by the BOS. Inside an HOD certain regulations on development apply which serve to protect historic resources inside that area. HODs are administered by the History Commission and the Planning Division of the Department of Planning and Development.Contact: Daniel WhiteData Accessibility: Publicly available to Fairfax County Employees and represented to citizens and the public through a number of GIS applications.Update Frequency: As neededCreation Date: N/AFeature Set Name: DPZMGR.HISTORIC_AREASFeature Layer Name: DPZMGR.HISTORIC_OVERLAY_DISTRICTS
Copyright Text: Fairfax County Department of Planning & Development
Description: This layer was constructed by combining several intermediate layers which were developed in April 2010 from a database constructed several years earlier by DPZ staff. On this layer almost all features are shown as planimetric shapes. A few features are shown as 220-foot diameter circles placed as closely as possible over the center of the feature. In the table, a show_as_point column identifies these features with a "yes." There are also 5 linear-style features expressed as polygons. These are roads shown as 125-foot wide buffers following the centerline of the inventoried feature. All features appear only once in the layer except for Great Falls Park Historic District Park, which is split into two polygons, one for the portion in Upper Potomac Planning District and one for the portion in McLean Planning District.Contact: Daniel WhiteData Accessibility: Publicly available to Fairfax County Employees and represented to citizens and the public through a number of GIS applications.Update Frequency: As neededCreation Date: April 2010Feature Set Name: DPZMGR.HISTORIC_AREASFeature Layer Name: DPZMGR.INVENTORY_OF_HISTORIC_SITES
Copyright Text: The geographic data layers produced by the Government of Fairfax County, Virginia (“Fairfax County”), and any associated maps and applications, are provided as a public resource. While every reasonable effort is made to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the data, Fairfax County makes no warranties, expressed or implied, concerning the accuracy, completeness or suitability of its data, and it should not be construed or used as a legal description.
Pursuant to Section 54.1-402 of the Code of Virginia, any determination of topography or contours, or any depiction of physical improvements, property lines or boundaries is for general information only and shall not be used for the design, modification, or construction of improvements to real property or for flood plain determination.
Copyright by Fairfax County. Except as provided herein, all rights are reserved. Authorization to reproduce material for internal or personal use by any user of this information is granted by Fairfax County, the copyright owner.
This product is for informational purposes and may not have been prepared for, or be suitable for legal, engineering, or surveying purposes. Users of this information should review or consult with Fairfax County and information sources to ascertain the usability of the information including but not limited to Parcels, Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas, Flood Plains etc...
Description: This layer depicts the agriculture/forest districts in Fairfax County. These areas are specially designated for tax purposes. For additional information refer to this web page: https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/planning-zoning/agricultural-forestal-districtContact: Fairfax County GIS DivisionData Accessibility: PublicUpdate frequency: DailyCreation date: 1/1/2000Layer Name: GISMGR.AF_DISTRICTSDataset Name: GISMGR.PARCELS
Copyright Text: The data set was created by Analytical Surveys Incorporated (ASI) and Landata under contract to Fairfax County. Quality control checks were performed by Engineering Systems Incorporated and Dewberry and Davis. Staff from the GIS branch were also used for quality control checking. Since 2001 Fairfax County staff have been solely responsible for maintaining this data.
Description: Zoning Applications in Fairfax County. These applications are coordinated through the Zoning Evaluation Division with-in the department of Planning & Development.Contact: Fairfax County Department of Planning & DevelopmentData Accessibility: Publicly available to Fairfax County Employees and represented to citizens and the public through a number of GIS applications.Update Frequency: WeeklyCreation Date: 2009Feature Layer Name: DPZMGR.APPLICATIONS_ZEDFeature Set Name: DPZMGR.ZONING_APPLICATIONS
Copyright Text: Daniel White
Fairfax County Department of Planning & Development
Description: For detailed information on "Proffer Legislation Exempt Mixed Use Areas" legislation contact the Director of the Planning Division, Fairfax County Department of Planning & Development, at 703-324-1380.Contact: Fairfax County Department of Planning & DevelopmentData Accessibility: Publicly available to Fairfax County Employees and represented to citizens and the public through several GIS applications.Update Frequency: RARELYCreation Date: 2000Feature Layer Name: DPZMGR.PROFFER_LEGISLATION_EXEMP_AREAFeature Set Name: DPZMGR.PLANNING
Copyright Text: This GIS layer was developed by and is maintained by the Planning Division, Fairfax County Department of Planning & Development
Description: Contact: Fairfax County Department of Planning and DevelopmentData Accessibility: Internal Use Only and disseminated to the public through web GIS applicationsUpdate frequency: As needed; This layer is updated by DPD as the BOS authorizes and adopts amendments.Creation date: 12/13/2013Layer name: DPZMGR.PLAN_AMENDMENT_DATABASEDataset name: DPZMGR.COMP_PLAN_AMENDMENTSField Definitions:Type:This refers to the type of amendment – Area Plans Review (APR), Out-of-turn Plan amendment (OTPA), special study (ST), work program item (W), Site-Specific Plan Amendment (SSPA)Spvr_Dist:Supervisor districts included in the amendment. Note that over time, district boundaries have changed…amendments are classified based upon the district they were located in at the time of authorizationAdopt_Num:Adopted text number (if adopted)Authorized:Date when the BOS authorized a proposed amendment to the Comprehensive Plan. This means the BOS directed county staff to begin the study and analysis of a proposed amendment, it does not mean the amendment was incorporated into the Plan.Adopted:Date when a proposed amendment to the Plan was adopted by the BOS and formally incorporated into the Comprehensive Plan text and map.Purpose:General characterization of the amendment topic. Most are Land use/Int (land use or intensity change proposed) but the amendments cover a wide variety of topics. Many studies cover multiple policy areas, but are categorized as Land use/Int if a primary purpose of the amendment was to change land use recommendations. This is distinguished from Land Use Related, which recognizes amendments where recommendations or conditions were proposed to be changed, but did not involve a change in land use or density/intensity.Acres_Log:The “official” acreage noted in the staff report at the time of the amendment. Not all amendments have had an official acreage associated with them.Cycle:Refers to the APR or SSPA cycle for an item, or in the case of current work program items, the year in which the item was added to the work program.Item_Num:The number assigned to each Plan amendment. If this says “pending” it is an item currently on the work program that is not yet underway.Notes:For APR or SSPA items, this is where the nominator is listed. For OTPAs and studies, the Supervisor who made the motion to authorize the amendment is listed. There may be additional miscellaneous information in this field, such as related amendments, as is warranted.Name:The name of the amendment or study. This is generally only found for ST, OTPA, SSPA, and W items.Outcome:The outcome of the item. This is generally straightforward, except in instances where items have been deferred or rescinded. Any item with a second item in parentheses means a second action was taken after the first. The second action is in parentheses. Temp_num:This is an internal number used to document work program items that have not yet commenced. The only real purpose of this number is for recordkeeping, so you likely won’t be concerned with it.Acres_gis:Acres as calculated in GIS. Since all mapping projections have some inherent distortion, this is not an exact acreage. This figure is the area of the item’s polygon, which may include some right-of-way. This has been calculated so that for items without a value in Acres_Log, you can still get a general idea of the amendment size.Mapped:Many of the amendments in this database cover quite a large area. Some cover the whole county. They have all been given a shape so that we can account for them in this file, but you may find that the presence of these larger amendments obscures some of the smaller, site-specific amendments you may be researching. Amendments labeled as “yes” tend to be smaller and account for land use and intensity/density changes, while those labeled as “no” are larger in size and tend to be related to policy topics or editorial updates. This field allows you to query out the geographically larger amendments so that they don’t, for lack of a better phrase, get in your way. Of course, you can symbolize this layer however you want, which will allow you show the locations or types of amendments most relevant to you.FFMAP:YES=current item which appears on DPZ interactive Web maps. NO=current item whose character (typically Countywide, Editorial, or Policy) is such that it cannot be mapped on DPZ interactive Web maps, or recent item which was shown on the DPZ interactive Web maps, but is no longer current and has been removed. <Null>=not shown on DPZ interactive Web maps because item predates Web map and item is resolved. ?=will be mapped and shown on DPZ interactive Web maps as soon as location can be determined.
Copyright Text: Marshall Keeney; Fairfax County Department of Planning & Development; Originally compiled by DPD Planning Division.
Description: This layer contains polygons defining the boundaries of several named “areas” which are described in the Comprehensive Plan text. RELATED LAYERS - Two other types of place: Suburban Neighborhoods and Low Density Residential Areas are depicted on a separate SDE layer, DPZMGR:RESIDENTIAL_AREAS_CONCEPTUAL See also the layer: DPZMGR.DEVELOPMENT_CENTERSfor additional bounded planning-related areas.Contact: Fairfax County Department of Planning & DevelopmentData Accessibility: Publicly available to Fairfax County Employees and represented to citizens and the public through several GIS applications.Update Frequency: RARELYCreation Date: 2000Feature Layer Name: DPZMGR.SUPPLEMENTARY_PLANNING_AREASFeature Set Name: DPZMGR.PLANNING
Copyright Text: Maintained by the Department of Planning & Development
Description: Based initially on a hard copy map drafted by Harry Rado, predating 2006, scanned, georectified and digitized by Christopher Havlicek in 2009. Revised to its current form as of 4/7/2020 by Christopher Havlicek, DPD GIS, with input from the Civic Association in discussions with Laura Arseneau and Denice Dressel, planners with the Heritage Resources branch of the Planning Division of the Department of Planning and Development.This area should *NOT* be treated as a Historic Overlay District.Contact: Created and maintained by the GIS and Planning Divisions of the Department of Planning and Development Data Accessibility: Publicly Available Update Frequency: As Needed Last Revision Date: 4/7/2020 Creation Date: 2/5/2009 Feature Dataset Name: DPDMGR.HISTORIC_AREAS Choose an item. Name: DPDMGR.GUM_SPRINGS_COMMUNITY
Copyright Text: Created and maintained by the GIS/Graphics and Planning Divisions of the Department of Planning and development.