[ORMAP-Tech] Definition of Terms From Olden Times

Eileen Ystad EYSTAD at co.clatsop.or.us
Thu Jan 27 09:25:53 PST 2011


The only thing I would add is "Tract" can also appear on Subdivisions
Plats,for example; Tract A, Tract B, generally for common areas or open
space.
 
Eileen
 
Eileen Ystad
Senior Cartographer
Clatsop County Assessment and Taxation
820 Exchange Street, Suite 200
Astoria, OR  97103
(503) 338-3747



>>> "DEAN ANDERSON" <ANDERSON.DEAN at co.polk.or.us> 1/27/2011 8:18 AM
>>>

Phil
 
I dug through some of my old stuff from previous GIS/Mapping meetings
and such and came up with the following: 
 
Taxlot (Taxlot)  - An area of land uniquely identified by the county
assessor for assessment purposes.  (from the 1996 intergovernment group
report) 
 
Parcel - A while back several groups did a review of legislation and
found that the word parcel was used 100's of times in state legislation
in many different contexts.  The group decided not to use parcel as a
definition of anything.  b) In many local zoning ordinances the planning
department has a definition for  a "lawfully created parcel" (ie: Polk
County Ordinance 91.950).  The definition used for parcel is:" A unit of
land created by partitioning of land, or as created pursuant to Sections
91.950 and 91.955 of the Polk County Ordinances.  This also means a
parcel has been "lawfully" created and meets local land use ordinances
so somebody can develop it.  The word "parcel" also appears can appear
on partition plats like "parcel 1". 
 
Tract - Another term that gets used to mean many different things but
often qualified with the following words "tract of land"  and references
"An area of land or a defined piece of ground".   Gets used in ORS 92 in
the following two statements:  "“Partition” means either an act of
partitioning land or an area or tract of land partitioned." or
"Subdivision” means either an act of subdividing land or an area or a
tract of land subdivided."   The word "tract" is also used on old Fruit
Farm Plats such as "Tract 1".  Finally, our assessor and appraisers use
the word "tract" to refer to a single or multiple taxlots that are
treated as a single financial unit.  Each taxlot within the tract has
the same "unit id". 
 
 
Hope this does not confuse the issue more.
 
 
Dean 
 
 
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