wcospace

This data was developed as an aid to planners and consultants for visual and data analysis of open spaces in Westchester County. The data includes 12 categories: County and State Parks & Parkway Lands; Local Parks & Open Space; Nature Preserves; Private Recreation; Public & Private Institutions; Public Non-Park Lands; Cemeteries; Water Supply Lands; Agricultural Lands. This data layer used in conjunction with the County Waterbodies data represents a network of open space totalling more than 104,000 acres or 36% of the total county land.

This data layer updated in 2004 represents a comprehensive county-wide update to the 1994 major open spaces GIS data layer and map. This data layer was again updated in June of 2006 to show new acquisitions of County and State Parks and Water Supply Lands. Classified in 12 open space categories, it includes many smaller properties that were not previously mapped. Properties classified as Farms were primarily derived from the Westchester County Agricultural District established in 2000. A variety of sources were used to compile this information, including aerial photography, digital tax parcel data, and local recreation, land use and master plan maps. Other sources included municipal planning departments and consultants, conservation committees and the Westchester Land Trust.

Westchester County Dept. of Planning

This polygon coverage identifies corporate boundaries for all 43 municipal jurisdictions in Westchester County. Coverage originally obtained from New York State Office for Real Property Services (ORPS), and has been substantially modified to better align with current municipal tax parcel boundaries (WCparcels) based on a compilation of 2012 municipal tax parcel datasets. As all of Westchester's town's and cities compile their tax parcel databases independent of one another, there are situations were the tax parcels do not line up at the municipal borders, often resulting in gaps or overlaps of tax parcels at the border areas. This update sought to re-align boundaries to best follow the municipal boundaries as defined by the tax parcels, and often involved making the best possible spatial compromise where there were gaps or overlaps in tax map jurisdictions. It also reflects the 2011 municipal boundary change that resluted from the annexation of a tax parcel from the Town of Mount Pleasant to the Town of New Castle.