Williamson Act Parcels: San Mateo County, California, 2015

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Abstract: This polygon shapefile depicts land parcels that are regulated under the Williamson Act. The California Land Conservation Act, better known as the Williamson Act, has been the California’s agricultural land protection program since its enactmentin1965. The Williamson Act preserves agricultural and open space lands through property tax incentives and voluntary restrictive use contracts. Private landowners voluntarily restrict their land to agricultural and compatible open space uses under minimum ten year rolling term contracts with local governments. In return, restricted parcels are assessed for property tax purposes at a rate consistent with their actual use, rather than potential market value. The purpose of the Williamson Act is to preserve the County’s prime soils and intensive high value agricultural operations, and to discourage premature and unnecessary conversion of agricultural land to urban use. This layer is part of a collection of GIS data for San Mateo County, California.
Purpose: 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.

Type of resource	cartographic, software, multimedia
Form	Shapefile
Extent	4.516
Place	Redwood City, California, US
Publisher	County of San Mateo Information Services Department
Date valid	2015
Publication date	2015
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital
Map data	Scale not given. ; EPSG::2227 W 122°31ʹ11ʺ--W 122°8ʹ59ʺ/N 37°35ʹ46ʺ--N 37°6ʹ55ʺW 122°31ʹ9ʺ--W 122°9ʹ9ʺ/N 37°35ʹ27ʺ--N 37°7ʹ6ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326

Creator	County of San Mateo Information Services Department

Subject	Williamson Act Program (California)
Subject	California Land Conservation Act of 1965
Subject	Law and legislation
Subject	Environmental law
Subject	Conservation of natural resources
Subject	Open spaces
Subject	Agriculture
Subject	Property tax
Subject	Tax assessment
Subject	Landowners
Subject	San Mateo County (Calif.)
Subject	2015
Subject	Environment
Genre	Geospatial data
Genre	Cartographic dataset

Use limitation	The County of San Mateo cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data.
WGS84 Cartographics	This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/xm341vf1433

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: County of San Mateo Information Services Department. (2015). Williamson Act Parcels: San Mateo County, California, 2015. San Mateo County. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/xm341vf1433

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