Description: Tracking access to public highways is a vital ITD responsibility, ensuring the safety of accesses based on various factors, such as sight distance and traffic volume. In the past these were primarily recorded in two places: in a paper permits log table, and drafted onto as-constructed plansheets. Entering features into a GIS system was a natural way to integrate the information log and geographic component with each other.In this context, accesses are typically driveways or side roads connecting to ITD-managed highways, and therefore accessing state right of way. Each access (other than pre-existing) has a permit associated with it in the format “XX-XX-XX.” The first digit(s) represent the ITD district number. In the early 1980s Idaho’s transportation districts were re-numbered, and current ITD District 5 used to be District 1. Therefore, permits from the district before that time are labelled beginning in “1.”The second set of digits generally represents the year, for example, “05” denotes a permit issued in 2005. The last digits show the number of the permit issued that year, so “23” is the 23rd permit issued for that year.ITD District 5 has scanned copies of original permits dating back to the 1950s, and most accesses from before that time were simply “grandfathered” into new highway corridors. Although permits were issued for temporary access to ITD’s right of way, such as for parade routes, those are not currently included in this dataset.
Copyright Text: Digitized from georeferenced plansheets and imagery by GIS Analyst, Nikolaus W. Sterbentz, from Idaho Transportation Department, District 5.
Description: The Land_Dissolve_By_Types Feature class is intended for use in catrographic products displaing Bureau of Reclamation land interests at a scale of smaller than 1:24,000. The layer was derived from the OwnerParcel FC.Updated 5/26/2015 - EB
Copyright Text: Upper Snake Field Office, Burley Idaho