FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: HUD RENEWAL COMMUNITIES, EMPOWERMENT ZONES, AND ENTERPRISE COMMUNITIES IN FLORIDA - 2010

Geodataset Name:       HUD_RCEZEC_JUN10
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         10
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development maintains a database of Florida's Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones, and Enterprise Communities. These regions are specific areas targeted for economic revitalization. Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones, and Enterprise Communities encourage economic growth and investment in distressed areas by offering tax advantages and incentives to businesses located within the zone boundaries. This is an update to the FGDL layer HUD_RCEZEC_MAY07.
DATA SOURCE(S):                    U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     N/A
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida
PUBLICATION DATE: 20100607 TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT: Begin Date: 20070515 End Date: 20100607 DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: HUD_RCEZEC_JUN10.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
EZECNAME
100 String
TRACT
7 String
TRACTID
11 String
PREFIX
3 String
FIRSTNAME
9 String
MIDNAME
8 String
LASTNAME
15 String
TITLE
61 String
ORG
66 String
ADDRESS1
34 String
ADDRESS2
32 String
CITY
15 String
ZIP
10 String
PHONE
20 String
FAX
12 String
EMAILADDR
36 String
NAME
41 String
TYPE
40 String
ID
8 Double
SITE
3 String
DSITE_NAME
42 String
DESCRIPT
100 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer
SHAPE.AREA
0 Double
SHAPE.LEN
0 Double

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item
Item Description
OBJECTID Internal feature number.

Shape Feature geometry.

EZECNAME Empowerment Zone / Enterprise Zone Name

TRACT Census Tract

TRACTID Census Tract Identification Number

PREFIX Zone Contact Prefix

FIRSTNAME Zone Contact First Name

MIDNAME Zone Contact Middle Initial

LASTNAME Zone Contact Last Name

TITLE Local Zone Contact Title

ORG The Name Of The Organization In Charge Of Zone

ADDRESS1 Organization Address

ADDRESS2 Suite / Floor of Organization

CITY City From Which The Organization Is Based

ZIP Organization Zip Code

PHONE Zone Contact Primary Phone Number

FAX Organization Fax Number

EMAILADDR Organization E-mail Address

NAME Not Defined By Source

TYPE Type of Zone

ID Not Defined By Source

SITE Developable Site.

DSITE_NAME Developable Site Name.

DESCRIPT Based on EZECNAME

FGDLAQDATE Date GeoPlan acquired the data

AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan

SHAPE.AREA Area in meters

SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters


USER NOTES:
This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity
of the original data layer's topology
This data is provided 'as is' by GeoPlan and is complete to our
knowledge.
GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.
Round II and III EZs have non-contiguous areas called developable sites, which 
are developed for commercial or industrial purposes. They are different from the 
other designated areas in that they are not based on census tracts. Instead they 
are based on local designations such as parcels or plats. Because of this, the 
locator provides only the approximate location of the official developable site. 
Maps in the locator have been rounded up to the centerline of the nearest feature
to insure that the address of businesses gets a hit. For addresses near the 
boundary of an EZ developable site, please consult the local contact for the site s
EZ to determine the actual boundary of the developable site and whether the 
business qualifies as an EZ business. The locator does not contain rural EZ 
developable sites. 

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Please Note:
Past versions of the Enterprise Zones dataset included information from 
both FDEP and HUD.  The FDEP information contained state level 
enterprise zone information while the HUD information contained federal 
level enterprise zone information.  Due to the different update cycles 
of these two sources the enterprise zone information will now be broken 
up into two datasets.  The dataset enterprise_zones_20XX.shp will still 
contain the information obtained from FDEP while the dataset 
hud_rcezec.shp will contain the information obtained form HUD.

The data was created to serve as base information for use in GIS 
systems for a variety of planning and analytical purposes

This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan

This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan

NONE
http://egis.hud.gov/EGIS/CPD/RCEZEC/disclaimer.htm

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A note about data scale: 

Scale is an important factor in data usage.  Certain scale datasets
are not suitable for some project, analysis, or modeling purposes.
Please be sure you are using the best available data. 

1:24000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the
county level.
1:24000 data should NOT be used for high accuracy base mapping such
as property parcel boundaries.
1:100000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the
multi-county or regional level.
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regional or state level or larger.

Vector datasets with no defined scale or accuracy should be
considered suspect. Make sure you are familiar with your data
before using it for projects or analysis. Every effort has been
made to supply the user with data documentation. For additional
information, see the References section and the Data Source Contact
section of this documentation. For more information regarding
scale and accuracy, see our webpage at:
http://geoplan.ufl.edu/education.html

REFERENCES:
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development:
EZ/RC address locator
http://egis.hud.gov/egis/

Florida RC/EZ/EC Communities
Urban Round III Empowerment Zones - Jacksonville
Urban Round II Empowerment Zones - Miami-Dade County
Rural Round II Enterprise Communities - Empowerment Alliance of Southwest Florida
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/tour/fl/

HUD Community Renewal State Contact
Jack Gaskins
Florida Department of Community Affairs
Division of Housing & Community Development
2555 Shumard Oaks Blvd.
Tallahassee, FL 32399-2100
Phone: 850-488-3581
Fax: 850-410-1555
Email: Jack.Gaskins@dca.state.fl.us

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:
GeoPlan, during the QA/QC process included the following aspects:
(1) Added HUD's ArcIMS site to ArcMap
(2) Extracted RCEZEC layer from ArcIMS 
(3) Renamed layer HUD_RCEZEC_2007
(4) Renamed attribute headers 
(5) Upcased the attribute table
(6) Added DESCRIPT based on EZECNAME
(7) Added FGDLAQDATE based on GeoPlans acquisition date
(8) Added AUTOID based on FID+1

Past versions of the Enterprise Zones dataset included information from 
both FDEP and HUD.  The FDEP information contained state level 
enterprise zone information while the HUD information contained federal 
level enterprise zone information.  Due to the different update cycles 
of these two sources the enterprise zone information will now be broken 
up into two datasets.  The dataset enterprise_zones_20XX.shp will still 
contain the information obtained from FDEP while the dataset 
hud_rcezec.shp will contain the information obtained form HUD.
Process Date: 20070515

GeoPlan, during the QA/QC process included the following aspects: (1) Added HUD's ArcIMS site to ArcMap GIS Servers\egis.hud.gov ArcIMS Image Service: rcezec (2) Extracted RCEZEC layer (ezec_gdttracts) from ArcIMS. (3) Compared spatial extents of ezec_gdttracts from the image service with that of the existing HUD_RCEZEC_MAY07. - Noted no spatial changes have occurred since the last version. (4) Compared attributes of ezec_gdttracts from the image service with that of the existing HUD_RCEZEC_MAY07. - Noted attribute changes have occurred since the last version. (5) Renamed HUD_RCEZEC_MAY07 to HUD_RCEZEC_JUN10 and applied attribute changes. (6) Updated the contact information for each area with that of the contact information listed on the following HUD websites (Content current as of 7 June 2010) - http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/tour/fl/ - http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/tour/fl/jacksonville/ - http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/tour/fl/miamidadecountyECEZ/ - http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/tour/fl/empowerallianceofswfl/ (7) Upcased the attribute table. (6) Repopulated the DESCRIPT based on EZECNAME. (7) Added FGDLAQDATE based on GeoPlans acquisition date. Process Date: 20100624
Data imported to ArcSDE and exported as a shapefile. Process Date: 20100914
MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS:

Projection                          ALBERS
Datum                               HPGN
Units                               METERS
Spheroid                            GRS1980
1st Standard Parallel               24  0  0.000
2nd Standard Parallel               31 30  0.000
Central Meridian                   -84 00  0.000
Latitude of Projection's Origin     24  0  0.000
False Easting (meters)              400000.00000
False Northing (meters)             0.00000

DATA SOURCE CONTACT (S):

Name:
Abbr. Name:
Address:


Phone:

Web site:
E-mail:
Contact Person:
         Phone:
        E-mail:
Department of Housing and Urban Development - Office of Policy Development and Research
HUD
451 7th Street SW
Washington, DC
20410
(202) 708-0614 ext. 5745

http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc/tour/fl/ Robert Renner

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