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Marina presents new GIS mapping tools; city, fire and planning to expand public maps and integrate asset management
Summary
City staff and consultants updated council on progress building Marina’s GIS, describing parcel viewers, district maps, fire hydrant and hydrant data, planning layers and future integration with CityWorks and public dashboards.
Marina city staff and consultant Rincon gave the City Council an update Feb. 4 on the city’s geographic information system (GIS), describing completed mapping work, operational benefits for public safety and next steps to expand public web maps and asset management integration.
Guido (last name not provided), who leads the city’s GIS effort, said the program moved the city “from a paper map” to an online ArcGIS environment and has already mapped council districts, zoning, general plan parcels and “housing opportunity sites” from the housing element. “We actually the first phase was getting community development up and running,” Guido said, and the city has added planning, engineering and police beats layers.
Deputy Chief (Division Chief) Sweeney told the council the updated maps will improve emergency response. He said engine crews previously relied on consumer mapping apps for some new neighborhoods. The new GIS maps include parcel‑level addresses and locations of hydrants and driveways, and they will be loaded into the department’s tablet incident‑management system. “These maps also have every fire hydrant in the city…they really do improve the speed that we’re able to get where we need to go,” Sweeney said.
Max (last name not provided) of Rincon described next steps: upgrading Marina’s public parcel viewer to a modern ArcGIS configuration before the vendor (Esri) deprecates the city’s current application, supporting CityWorks asset management work for public‑works and engineering, and building internal dashboards such as a capital‑improvement map and a public project tracker. He said Rincon and staff will continue to refine foundational datasets and support public‑facing map apps that show project status, staff contacts and timelines.
Council members asked about data sharing with regional partners; GIS staff said exchanging map packages with AMBAG (Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments) is straightforward and could be done via ArcGIS Online groups. Council members also asked about integrating citizen service requests (311/click‑to‑fix) and CityWorks; Rincon said many 311 and asset‑management systems use GIS as the underlying dataset and that CityWorks implementation will be a 2025 focus.
Several council members suggested tagging planned street‑maintenance dates and citizen‑service histories on the public map so residents can click on their street and see pending projects. Rincon said that is feasible and would be an example of a public‑facing application the city can build.
Councilors asked about contract terms with Rincon. Rincon said the city hosts its own GIS data and that Rincon’s role includes ongoing support and adding new layers; staff said the intent is a long‑term relationship for data updates and training.
City staff said future phases will focus on public‑works and engineering asset layers, and on adding Marina Station parcels to support response and planning in the city’s expanding north end. Staff asked council to accept the update and direct staff to continue implementation and budgeting for ongoing map updates and training.
