Permit and Conservation Easement Siting
 

In order to implement a fully effective permit processing Geographic Information System (GIS) permit review staff must have the ability to obtain accurate permit and conservation easement site locations. In addition, obtaining accurate historic permit and conservation easement site location information is a critical need for DEP, the WMDs and the COE. Absent such information it is impossible to retrieve useful GIS data as it relates to a specific permit application or conservation easement nor is it possible to begin to assess cumulative and secondary impacts to a watershed from development activities or develop adequate mitigation and conservation strategies. To meet these needs this project has two major objectives:

1. recording accurate locational data for historic permits and conservation easements processed from the Fall of 1992 to December, 1998 and incorporating this information with siting that occurred for projects from January, 1987 through September, 1992 to create a spatial data layer to be used within a Geographic Information System and
2. conducting a pilot project designed to provide permit review staff with the ability to receive and/or obtain permit and conservation easement location information in boundary format.