The purpose of this project is to help the City of Seaside reduce the amount of paper files on easements, and to create a single map through ArcGIS for future ease of use. According to the EPA, about 69 million tons of paper are used in the U.S. each year. The Sustainable City of Seaside easement filing system is composed of a high volume of paper easement maps that have become increasingly difficult to manage. This will allow the City of Seaside to access .pdf files of their easement maps conveniently by clicking on any easement section of interest on one single map of Seaside. This map will have shapefiles of polygon features representing individual easement sections in Seaside, with their own hyperlinks/locations of the corresponding scanned paper easement map. Some sections may not contain easements, however, this provides an efficient way for the City of Seaside to locate files geospatially in a fraction of the time. Not only will this significantly increase the Sustainable City of Seaside’s efficiency, but it will also reduce the amount of paper being used in general.
Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.
Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info
University Faculty Contact
Jessie Doyle
Natural Sciences
Lecturer
jdoyle@csumb.edu
Local Government / Community Contact
Rick Riedl
Public Works
City Engineer
rriedl@ci.seaside.ca.us