Washington’s GIS zoning map now reflects recent rezonings, annexations and other miscellaneous corrections.

Planner Glenn Moore provided that information to the Planning Board, which uses that map to make decisions regarding growth and development in the city and in the city’s extra-territorial jurisdiction, an area outside the city where its zoning, building and other similar regulations are in force. GIS is an acronym for geographic information system, designed to capture, store, analyze, manipulate and manage all types of spatial data.

The board reviewed the updated GIS map. Governments often use GIS mapping in land records and identifying land parcels for taxation purposes.

“We are coordinating with the county to make sure the map they’re showing on their website is accurate,” Moore said at the board’s August meeting. “There were some zoning mistakes. They had some different things that we went through and tweaked. This is what we’ve come up with.”

The updated map will be presented to the City Council. Board member Dot Moate suggested that in the future there be copies of the updated GIS map provided to each board member and each council member so he or she can review and/or refer to it when necessary.

“Again, this is just coordinating everything to make sure it jives with what the county has,” Moore said.

The board voted unanimously to recommend the City Council approved the updated map.

Before that vote, some board members asked questions about an area on the map marked CP. The board was informed that CP is an acronym for corporate park district. It is primarily intended to accommodate office, warehouse, research and development and assembly uses on large sites in a planned, campus-like setting compatible with adjacent residential uses. Such a district may include retail and service uses that customarily locate within planned employment centers, according to the city’s zoning ordinances.

In other business, the board reviewed the site plan for a proposed banquet facility off U.S. Highway 264 and Tranter’s Creek Road. Moore told the board the site plan submitted by the developer, Southern Pamlico Events, meets all the parking and landscaping requirements. The facility would be located in the city’s ETJ.

Ronnie Boyd is the registered agent for Southern Pamlico Events, a corporation that filed its papers Jan. 26 of this year.