Spheres of Influence: Solano County, California, 2015

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Abstract
This polygon shapefile depicts Spheres of Influence (SOI) boundaries associated with incorporated areas in the County of Solano, California. These boundaries are outside of the actual Municipal boundaries, or city limits, as designated by the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) of Solano County. LAFCO was created in 1963 to encourage orderly formation of local government agencies, preserve agricultural land resources and discourage urban sprawl. LAFCos are responsible for coordinating logical and timely changes in local governmental boundaries, conducting special studies that review ways to reorganize, simplify, and streamline governmental structure and preparing a sphere of influence for each city and special district within each county. An SOI is a physical boundary inside of which a local governmental agency is expected to provide services and is generally set by LAFCO with a 20 year time frame. SOI boundaries are designated in order to help discourage urban sprawl, limit boundary disputes between local agencies and provide indications regarding future development potential. A district or city's SOI should not to be construed as "referral" areas or as bestowing authority and control within the SOI boundaries. LAFCO can amend an SOI if there are sound reasons to do so. This layer is part of a collection of GIS data produced by Solano County, California.
Purpose
Solano Regional Geographic Information Systems Consortium (Solano ReGIS) is a cooperative of local government agencies within Solano County, California, working together to share spatial data, pool resources, and provide GIS expertise to Solano ReGIS members, which include the Cities of Benicia, Dixon, Fairfield, Rio Vista, Suisun City, Vacaville and Vallejo; the County of Solano; the Fairfield-Suisun Sewer District; the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO); the Solano County Water Agency; the Solano Irrigation District; the Solano Transportation Authority; and the Vallejo Sanitation and Flood Control District. These Solano ReGIS members provide public access to applications, maps and spatial data. Solano County encompasses 7 cities and approximately 425,000 people. This coverage can be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analyses of geospatial data.

Description

Type of resource cartographic, software, multimedia
Form Shapefile
Extent 4.516
Place Fairfield, California, US
Publisher Solano County Department of Information Technology
Publication date 2015
Edition SpheresOfInfluence
Language English
Digital origin born digital
Map data Scale not given. ; W 122°20ʹ40ʺ--W 121°40ʹ31ʺ/N 38°29ʹ37ʺ--N 38°1ʹ55ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326

Creators/Contributors

Creator Armstrong, Jake H.

Subjects

Subject County services
Subject Cities and towns
Subject Zoning
Subject Spheres of influence
Subject Solano County (Calif.)
Subject 2015
Subject Boundaries
Genre Geospatial data
Genre Cartographic dataset

Bibliographic information

Use limitation Solano Regional GIS Consortium provides GIS layers for general mapping use only and does not provide legally authoritative data. The user assumes responsibility for any decisions made using Solano ReGIS sourced data.
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/rh029fs3164

Access conditions

Use and reproduction
This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.
Copyright
This work is in the Public Domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright.

Preferred citation

Solano Regional GIS Consortium. (2015). Spheres of Influence: Solano County, California, 2015. Solano Regional GIS Consortium. (2015). County Boundary (Line): Solano County, California, 2015. Solano County, California. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/rh029fs3164.

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Solano County, California GIS Maps & Data

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