Description: Building Permits issued by the City of Albuquerque, Planning Department starting in 2009 through the present time. Complete permit records were entered into the KIVA permitting system starting in 2009 until September 23, 2016. At that time, the Planning Department began utilizing a new permitting system called POSSE LMS that was designed by Computronix. Permits entered from September 26, 2016 to the present were initiated in POSSE LMS. Permits were geocoded using locators built with AGIS verified address data and were matched to the individual parcel either using the parcel or legal description. The initial geocode of this data layer occurred in Dec 2016 and records were matched based on address and legal description data that existed at that time. This layer includes all permits coded as building permits, which includes additions, alterations, foundations, new buildings, pools, and shell buildings. A complete list of this information is in the field attribute section of these metadata. In order to understand projects with multiple phases of permitting, especially pertaining to valuation of larger scale projects, multiple permit records over a longer time period will need to be analyzed. Additionally, for multiple family projects, it is important to understand that each building receives a new permit, especially pertaining to unit counts.
Copyright Text: City of Albuquerque Planning Department, AGIS Division
City of Albuquerque Planning Department, Building Safety Division
Description: Historical properties (assets) are delineated as "building", "site", "structure", "object" and "district" within the feature class. The definitions for these types are as follows: Building - A building, such as a house, barn, church, hotel, or similar construction, is created principallyto shelter any form of human activity."Building" may also be used to refer to a historically and functionally related unit, such as acourthouse and jail or a house and barn.Site - A site is the location of a significant event, aprehistoric or historic occupation or activity, ora building or structure, whether standing, ruined,or vanished, where the location itself possesseshistoric, cultural, or archeological value regardless of the value of any existing structure.Structure - The term "structure" is used to distinguish from buildings those functional constructionsmade usually for purposes other than creating human shelter.Object - The term "object" is used to distinguish from buildings and structures those constructions that are primarily artistic in nature or are relativelysmall in scale and simply constructed. Although it may be, by nature or design, movable, an object is associated with a specificsetting or environment.District-A district possesses a significant concentration,linkage, or continuity of sites, buildings, structures,or objects united historically or aesthetically by plan or physical development.These definitions are per the National Register Bulletin: How to Complete the National Registration Form. For more info on national historic registration, visit: http://www.nps.gov/nr/publications/bulletins/nrb16a/nrb16a_III.htm
Copyright Text: This layer is based on the State of New Mexico Historic Preservation Office list of state and national registered properties. AGIS and Historic Preservation Planners in the City of Albuquerque Planning Department updated this layer.