LAND INFORMATION OFFICE

Arnold L. Clement

OPERATING AUTHORITY AND PURPOSE

The Planning & Development Director is also the Land Information Officer, responsible by Wisconsin Administrative Code Chapter Adm. 47, Wisconsin Land Information Program, and by State Statute sections 16.967, 20.505 (i.e.) (ig) (im) and 59.72 for modernizing all land records in Racine County.

The purpose of the Land Information Office is to design and implement an automated mapping and land information system which can be used economically and efficiently and which permits ready entry, retrieval and exchange of data by and between the various users.
 

ACHIEVEMENT OF PERFORMANCE GOALS

A goal of this office is to create a mapping system consisting of five required basic elements. Racine County has successfully completed four of these and is well on the way to completing the remaining element, topographic mapping.

The land information system is available on the desks of all employees in the Planning & Development Department. Terminals are also available in the Information Systems Department, Public Works Department and the UW Extension office. CD's containing the land information have been provided to the Towns of Caledonia, Mount Pleasant, Dover and Rochester. Other municipalities are considering requesting them. The system is also being used by the Racine County Economic Development Corporation and by the Dover Fire Department.

2002 GOALS AND BUDGET STRATEGIES

•  Update existing data files using existing staff and enter new orthophoto maps obtained from the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission.
   
•  Contract for the preparation of the following data files to be displayed as overlays in the land information system: navigable water features; township tax unit mapping (two are already completed); drainage districts and major tile lines mapping; and sanitary sewer districts and public sanitary sewer lines mapping.
   
•  Complete the digitization of adopted municipal land use plans.
   
•  Complete mapping the street center lines for property addressing purposes, including automating the existing County addressing system.
   
•  Install a metadata program and begin entering metadata; continue digitizing existing topographic map features.
   
•  Provide Internet accessibility to the land information system as operating policies are developed.