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Fluvanna planning commission names county GIS as official zoning map
Summary
The Fluvanna County Planning Commission voted 5-0 to amend the county code to designate the county GIS map as the official zoning map, replacing the 20-year-old paper map and directing staff to post the official map online.
Fluvanna County planning staff and commissioners on May 13 moved to make the county’s GIS map the official zoning map, saying the digital map is more current and easier to maintain.
The change amends Fluvanna County Code §22-1-3 to identify the county’s GIS map, maintained by the Department of Planning and Zoning, as the official zoning map and to make that map publicly available on the county website.
Planning staff told the commission the current paper map is based on parcel data roughly 20 years old and that the GIS parcels and layers are more up to date. “The GIS is more up to date than the old version,” a planning staff member said during the public hearing. Commissioners noted the digital map can hold additional attributes such as case numbers, special use permits and site-development plans.
No members of the public spoke at the hearing. Commissioners asked whether the GIS and paper versions are synchronized and whether anything in the paper map should be carried forward; staff replied that parcel boundaries in the GIS tie to the commissioner of revenue database and that legal boundary disputes would still default to surveys.
The commission voted to recommend approval of ZTA 25-05, to add §22-1-3 to the county code and identify the GIS map as the official zoning map. Miss Morgan moved; Miss Kilpatrick seconded. The motion passed 5-0.
The amendment directs staff to advertise the ordinance change and post the GIS zoning map for public access. Planning staff said the department will continue to maintain both graphical and database records and will work with property owners where discrepancies remain.
The action is procedural: it changes the county’s official reference map from a static paper product to a maintained GIS resource and does not itself rezone any parcels. Future land-use actions will continue to rely on legal descriptions and surveys where necessary.
