BZA Cases (as Points)
Keywords: Zoning, Board, Appeal, Board of Zoning Appeals, BZA, Variance
Published: 200903
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Description
  Abstract: Represents locations where Board Of Zoning Appeals cases exist.
  Purpose: Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) points are managed in GIS as an on-going "geographic approach" to tracking information that is location-based; BZA cases. City planners can refer to the BZA GIS information to quickly determine if there are BZA case notes that are associated with a location.
  Supplemental Information: The Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA), created under § 17.16 of the City Charter, provides a means through which a property owner may seek relief from provisions imposed by the zoning ordinance. At the time of the development of the BZA GIS points, there is a log book that references any meeting minutes that are pertaining to address(es). Staff will look up the address in the log, to get reference to one or more meeting minutes, which can be found in one or more volumes of meeting minute books. The minutes from the log book(s) are removed and copies are made for documentation and then re-inserted to the log book(s). These meeting minutes go back to the 1920's, up to current day. There is no unique identification for BZA points, but in a way the uniqueness is really considered the Year + CaseNo + Type…(For examples 2008 001 A = 1st case of 2008 that was Administratively approved: 2008 002 B = the 2nd case of 2008 that went to the Board.)...but even those can be repeatable for BZA issues that relate to more than one address/location. The Board of Zoning Appeals may discuss many cases and some cases may involve multiple addresses. In those cases, DCD will have a point indicator on each of the address locations as an indicator of the existence of BZA notes. The other real time-saver with the GIS BZA points solution is that all BZA meeting minutes have been scanned and archived. These BZA points have a "CasePath" attribute in the GIS, which contains the url to the associated meeting minutes document. Therefore, when planners locate a BZA point for a location of interest, they can quickly and easily retrieve and read or print them. Board of Zoning Appeals: http://www.richmondgov.com/BoardZoningAppeals/index.aspx Zoning Division: http://www.richmondgov.com/planninganddevelopmentreview/ZoningDivision.aspx
 
Contact
  Custodian: William Davidson
  Department: Planning and Development Review
  Position: Planner III
  Address: 900 E Broad St, Rm 110
  City: Richmond
  State: Virginia
  Zip Code: 23219
  Email: William.Davidson@richmondgov.com
 
Time Period of Content
  Date: 1928
 
Status
  Progress: In work
  Update Frequency: Continually
 
Spatial Domain
  West Coordinate: -77.594012
  East Coordinate: -77.393580
  North Coordinate: 37.601155
  South Coordinate: 37.459752
 
Spatial Data Information
  Data Type: vector digital data
  Data Format: SDE Feature Class
  Data Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic
 
Access and Usage Information
  Access Constraints: none
  Use Constraints: All GIS layers and datasets are owned by the City of Richmond and can not be modified, re-distributed, and/or re-sold without a sub-licensing agreement. All guarantees of validity expire once a dataset leaves the City of Richmond firewall or physical premises. Acknowledgement of the City of Richmond GIS would be appreciated in products derived from these data.
 
Entity and Attribute Information
  Entity Name: vector.ric.dcd_BoardOfZoningAppealsPoint
  Entity Type: Feature Class
  Entity Count: 1391