| Description | Spatial | Attributes |
This is a polygon feature class representing vacant land; parcel and tax roll information; and includes additional notes on water, road, and percent improvements within each parcel.
Will serve as an input to the existing conditions toolbox being developed for the Capital Metropolitan Planning Organization's (CAMPO) growth concept work and will also support other land use related analysis.
CAPCOG collected the parcel data from multiple sources. The underlying parcel data may be inconsistent and/or spatially inaccurate. Spatially adjusting parcel boundaries is beyond the scope of this project. This first step was to join the parcel data to their respective tax roll data for the Austin-Round Rock MSA Counties (i.e. Travis, Hays, Caldwell, Bastrop, and Williamson Counties). The resulting layer was named VLI Parcels. The second step was to identify a subset of the VLI Parcels to be analyzed using orthoimagery and other supporting datasets. Staff selected parcels that are five acres or more, with a Texas State Land Use code of C, D and E (i.e. agriculture, vacant, and ranch land). The selected parcels were then exported to the VLI Prospects layer. The third step was to analyze the roughly 43,000 parcels identified as Prospects. Prospects with improvements valued at $0.05 or less per square foot were initially marked as vacant. Staff then qualitatively analyzed each Prospect and categorized it as vacant (i.e. "Yes") or not (i.e. "No"). Geospatial data utilized in the qualitative analysis included VLI Parcels; July, 2005 9-1-1 address points; water features; road centerlines, and 2004 NAIP Color Infrared Orthoimagery. VLI Prospects categorized as vacant were then exported to the Vacant Land Inventory layer. Finally, staff analyzed each parcel in the Vacant Land Inventory for the percent of improvements relative to the parcel area; the presence of road infrastructure, the presence of water features, and visible agricultural production as identified in the 2004 NAIP CIR Orthoimagery.