FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION
VERSION 2006

TITLE: BROWNFIELD AREAS 

Geodataset Name:       BROWNFIELDS_AREAS_JUN06
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Polygon
Feature Count:         132
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or underused industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. This layer provides a polygon coverage of Brownfields sites. 
DATA SOURCE(S):                    Florida Department of Environmental Protection
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Various
DATE OF AUTOMATION OF SOURCE:      20060605
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES: 

Datafile Name: BROWNFIELDS_AREAS.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE N. DECIMAL DEGREES
OBJECTID
4 OID ---
AREAID
23 String ---
AREANAME
75 String ---
CITY
30 String ---
COUNTY
30 String ---
ACREAGE
11 Number ---
RESDATE
8 Date ---
DEPDISTRIC
12 String ---
WMDISTRICT
10 String ---
FEDERALCOD
5 String ---
USERNAME
20 String ---
DATESTAMP
8 Date ---
SOURCE
120 String ---
METHOD
9 String ---
PROCTIME
19 Number 9
DESCRIPT
75 String ---
FGDLAQDATE
8 Date ---
SHAPE
4 Geometry ---
AUTOID
4 Integer ---
SHAPE.AREA
0 Double ---
SHAPE.LEN
0 Double ---

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item

Item Description





OBJECTID

Internal feature number.
















AREAID

Brownfield Area ID determined as "BF"+"DEP county code (2 characters)" + "000"
















AREANAME

Brownfield Area name
















CITY

City in which the Brownfield Area lies
















COUNTY

County in which the Brownfield Area lies
















ACREAGE

Brownfield Area acreage provided by the local government in which
















RESDATE

Date the Brownfield Site Rehabilitation Agreement (BSRA) resolution
















DEPDISTRIC

FDEP District in which the Brownfield Area lies
















WMDISTRICT

Water Management District in which the Brownfield Area lies
















FEDERALCOD

Code for the federal district in which the Brownfield Area lies
















USERNAME

Technician or analyst who processed the graphics for each feature
















DATESTAMP

Date the graphics were finished for each feature
















SOURCE

Source of information and/or data for each feature
















METHOD

Code to denote processing methodology




COGO = Coordinate geometry was created from legal description

paper = Graphic was heads up digitized from paper maps

shp = Graphic was copied and pasted from source shapefiles













PROCTIME

Length of time in minutes to process each feature
















DESCRIPT

Description field for the data based on AREANAME
















FGDLAQDATE

Date data was downloaded for review
















SHAPE

Feature geometry.
















AUTOID

Unique ID added by GeoPlan
















SHAPE.AREA

Area
















SHAPE.LEN

Perimeter




























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.













Florida's Brownfields Redevelopment Act's primary goals are to 
reduce health and environmental hazards on existing commercial 
and industrial sites that are abandoned or underused due to these 
hazards and create financial and regulatory incentives to encourage 
voluntary cleanup and redevelopment of sites. 















Brownfields data is provided to assist in the determination of areas with
potential for economic revitalization.















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















THE DATA INCLUDED IN FGDL ARE 'AS IS' AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED
AS LEGALLY BINDING. THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA GEOPLAN CENTER SHALL
NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF USING,
MODIFYING, CONTRIBUTING OR DISTRIBUTING THE MATERIALS.

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.
1:125000 scale datasets are recommended for projects that are at the
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: 






DEP:

http://www.dep.state.fl.us/mainpage/default.htm

http://www.dep.state.fl.us/waste/categories/brownfields/default.htm









DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY: 








Information was obtained from local sources in one of the following formats:
ArcView shapefiles, paper maps, and legal descriptions.

Boundaries from paper maps were digitized over the 1994-1995 DOQQs with various
other existing layers for reference, such as TIGER Roads, USGS Railroads (24k),
and FDOT Local Roads, using ArcView 3.2a

ArcView shapefiles were reprojected and imported into the base polygon shapefile.

Where shapefiles and paper maps were not available, legal descriptions were used
to create the boundaries using COGO (Coordinate Geometry) in ArcInfo 8.0.2

Locational quality information was maintained throughout data development by 
recording the USERNAME, DATESTAMP, and SOURCE for each feature.
See METHOD field to determine which process was used to develop each feature.

Graphics and attributes of the original 44 Brownfields current at the time
of data development were visually verified by Camisha Clarke and Carl
Eichenberger and independently QCd by Patrick Pence.

Finally, useful fields from the original database were joined to the polygons.

10/31/01
A seventh Ocala Brownfield area was added by screen digitizing.
Process Date: 2000


Layer reinserted from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke with the Bureau
of Waste Cleanup.  The shapefile included 3 new Brownfields Areas.
Process Date: 06/11/02


Layer reinserted from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke with the Bureau
of Waste Cleanup.  The shapefile included 1 new Brownfield Area and a
new column, FEDERALCODE, which contains county FIPS codes for each
Brownfields Area.
Process Date: 07/07/02


Layer reinserted from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke with the Bureau
of Waste Cleanup.  DEPDISTRICT column changed to reflect full name of district.
Process Date: 08/30/02


Layer initialized from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke with the Bureau
of Waste Cleanup.  The shapefile included 1 new Brownfields Area.
Process Date: 10/17/02


One record in the layer with incorrect county designation updated with the
following SQL: 
update brownfields_areas set
county = 'Washington',
federalcode = '133'
where areaname like 'Chipley Industrial Park Area'
Process Date: 10/30/02


Layer appended to from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke with the
Bureau of Waste Cleanup.  The shapefile included 3 new polygons.
Process Date: 11/07/02


Ocala Area 4 polygon updated from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke.
Process Date: 12/17/02


Layer initialized from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke with the Bureau
of Waste Cleanup.  The shapefile included 3 new Brownfields Areas.
Process Date: 01/29/03


Layer initialized from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke with the Bureau
of Waste Cleanup.  The shapefile included 3 new Brownfields Areas.
Process Date: 03/05/03


Layer initialized from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke with the Bureau
of Waste Cleanup.  The shapefile included 5 new Brownfields Areas.
Process Date: 04/08/03


Layer appended to from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke with the
Bureau of Waste Cleanup.  The shapefile included 3 new polygons.
Process Date: 04/23/03


Layer appended to from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke with the
Bureau of Waste Cleanup.  The shapefile included 1 new polygon.
Process Date: 06/06/03


Layer appended to from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke with the
Bureau of Waste Cleanup.  The shapefile included 5 new polygons.
Process Date: 07/21/03


Layer appended to from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke with the
Bureau of Waste Cleanup.  The shapefile included 1 new polygon.
Process Date: 10/20/03


Layer appended to from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke with the
Bureau of Waste Cleanup.  The shapefile included 1 new polygon.
Process Date: 10/22/03


Layer initialized from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke with the Bureau
of Waste Cleanup.  The shapefile included 11 new Brownfield Areas.
Process Date: 04/06/04


Appended 2 records from shapefile obtained from Camisha Clarke.
Process Date: 06/22/04


Inserted 90 records from shapefile obtained from Camisha Clarke.
Process Date: 08/04/2004


Inserted 92 records (added 2 more records to the earlier shapefile) from
shapefile obtained from Lindsay Horton
Process Date: 9/27/2004


Inserted updated 95 records from shapefile obtained from Lindsay Horton.
Process Date: 12/9/2004


Added 1 more record to the previously updated 95 records; from shapefile
obtained from Lindsay Horton.
Process Date: 12/20/2004


Inserted and updated 103 records from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke.
The shapefile included 7 additional areas to the previous list of 96 records.
Features created by both Lindsay Horton and Camisha Clarke. Each of the
following counties provided new designations: Duval, Escambia, Hillsborough,
Lake, Leon, Palm Beach, and Pinellas.
Process Date: 03/17/2005


Inserted and updated 106 records from shapefile provided by Camisha Clarke.
The shapefile included 3 additional designated areas to the previous list of
103 records. New designations include Homestead CRA Area in Miami-Dade
County,W.T. Edwards Facility in Hillsborough County, and West Ocala Expansion
Area in Marion County.
Process Date: 03/31/2005


Inserted and updated 107 records from shapefile provided by Lindsay Horton.
The shapefile included 1 additional designated areas to the previous list of
106 records. New designation include the Miami EZ Expansion Area in
Miami-Dade County.
Process Date: 05/17/2005


Inserted and updated 108 records from shapefile provided by Lindsay Horton.
The shapefile included 1 additional designated area to the previous list of
107 records. New designation included the Greater Green Cove Springs
Area in Green Cove Springs located in Clay county.
Process Date: 06/01/2005


Inserted and updated 109 records from shapefile provided by Lindsay Horton.
The shapefile included 1 additional designated area to the previous list of
108 records. New designated area was in the city of St. Petersburg in the
county of Pinellas.
Process Date: 06/14/2005


Inserted and updated 110 records from shapefile provided by Lindsay Horton.
The shapefile included 1 additional designated area to the previous list of
109 records. New designated area was in the city of Sarasota in the county
of Sarasota.
Process Date: 06/28/2005


Inserted and updated 112 records from shapefile provided by Lindsay Horton.
The shapefile included 2 additional designated areas to the previous list of
110 records. New designated areas were in the city of Miami in the county
of Miami-Dade (BF130503000) and in the city of Tampa in the county of
Hillsborough (BF290503000).
Process Date: 07/07/2005


Lindsay Horton noticed that MidTown BF Redevelopment Area was assigned
the wrong Brownfields ID number.  She updated the points and polygons with
the correct number BF170301000.  This is not an increase or a decrease of
the 113 Brownfield Areas.
Process Date: 07/12/2005


Inserted and updated 114 records from shapefile provided by Lindsay Horton.
The shapefile included 1 additional designated areas to the previous list of
116 records. New designated areas were in the city of Jacksonville in the
county of Duval (BF160502000).
Process Date: 08/31/2005


Layer updated from shapefile provided by Lindsay Horton and consists of 
118 areas.  The layer contains 5 new areas: Kings Avenue (BF160503000)
in Jacksonville; 929 Massachusetts Ave (BF170501000) in Pensacola; Dunbar
EZ (BF360302000) in Ft. Myers; University Corners (BF010501000) in
Gainesville; Southeast BF Expansion (BF420502000) in Ocala.
Process Date: 09/30/2005


Layer updated from shapefile provided by Lindsay Horton and consists of 122
areas.  The layer contains 4 new areas: Pinellas County Lealman Area-Wide
Brownfields Area (BF520502000) in Pinellas County; 1915 Wigmore Street
(Jacksonville Maritime Partners) (BF160505000) in the city of Jacksonville;
Southside Community Redevelopment Area (BF160504000) in the city of
Jacksonville; 603 West Romana Street Area (BF170502000) in the city of
Pensacola.
Process Date: 10/28/2005


Layer updated from shapefile provided by Lindsay Horton and consists of
124 areas.  The layer contains 2 new areas: Turner Envirologic Brownfield
Area (BF060501000) in Broward County and Hughes Electrical Brownfield
Area (BF160506000) in Duval County.
Process Date: 11/30/2005


Layer updated from shapefile provided by Lindsay Horton and consists of
125 areas.  The layer contains 1 new area in Escambia county, 501 North
Navy Boulevard Area (BF170503000).
Process Date: 3/3/06


Layer updated from shapefile provided by Lindsay Horton and consists of
126 areas.  The layer contains 1 new area in Orange County, Hughes
Supply Mega Center Brownfields Area (BF480601000).
Process Date: 4/3/06


Layer updated from shapefile provided by Lindsay Horton and consists of
126 areas.  The layer contains 1 new area in Orange County, Hughes
Supply Mega Center Brownfields Area (BF480601000).
Process Date: 5/1/2006


Layer updated from shapefile provided by Lindsay Horton and consists of
132 areas. The layer consists of 5 new areas: Grand Central at Kennedy
Property (BF290601000), Former 43rd St Bay Drum Site (BF290602000) in
Hillsborough; 3250 Metro Parkway (BF360501000) in Lee County; Bellair
Wastewater Treatment Plant and Town Garage (BF520601000) in Pinellas
County; and Sunrise BLVD/NW 31st Ave (BF060601000) in Broward County.
Process Date: 6/5/2006


GeoPlan downloaded this dataset from the Department of Environmental
Protections website (http://www.dep.state.fl.us/gis/datadir.asp) in
September 2006. The data downloaded as a shapefile and in the following
projection: Albers, NAD 83, GRS 80.

All fields Upcased.

-DESCRIPT field was added based on AREANAME.

-FGDLAQDATE field added to indicate date of download by FGDL.
Process Date: 20060906









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:




Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) BIS/GIS Section
FDEP
2600 Blair Stone Rd
Tallahassee, FL
32399-2400
850/245-8238


http://www.dep.state.fl.us/gis/datadir.asp
Camisha.Clarke@dep.state.fl.us
Camisha Clarke









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