Pierce County Pals

It is possible, with the online permit process, to place public comment directly to the permit application process. I have been asked to tell you, the public, this information so you can add your comments to the Tiny Home Village [Calle Community First Village] that is being proposed for the area between Spanaway Marsh and Spanaway Lake.

This is the link to the online permit public comment. You must first say yes you agree to abide by their rules, then you can see the bright orange box on the right-hand side that you click on to make a comment. You can also see other peoples public comments and read them from below.

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Below the SEPS, I have added instructions in case you get lost in the Online Permits. There are some sneaky tricks to it…

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Please try to do so in August. I am not sure the deadline for this, I think it passed, but if I find it, I will add that information.

You will need to create a login for yourself to comment. Once you do, you may have trouble finding your way back, this will help. Put the permit application number (or parcel number if there is only one). Tiny Homes is 1013476.

Once you are in the permit section for that development it looks like this. They tuck the good stuff under the documents heading.

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Here, under Documents, you see people who have already added comments and other goodies like site plans also. Then, you can go to the magic orange box called Public Comments and add yours.

[Editor: I must add how I feel about the disingenuous name given to this project, “Community First Village.” There is nothing here that has ever put the community of Spanaway first. The executive’s office has seen to it the “community” has absolutely no sway to any decision being made on this project. Dammeier, O’Ban, and previously, Anderson have commanded and ushered this project right over the heads of all the community members that have attempted to participate. It is almost as if they hold more goals than we are aware, like the complete annihilation of any potential possibility that our previously promised Cross Base Highway would ever happen. That, too, was done without notification to the community that they continuously use as a dumping ground for the worst of what they don’t want in other communities. I do see the handiwork and fingerprints of others that I have seen historically work against the Cross Base Highway in this project. More on that in another article I am writing.]Pierce County’s Planning & Land Services’ (PALS) counter personnel use geographic data on a daily basis to serve the public in the permitting process. QuickView for PALS was designed to speed the lookup of this GIS data right at the counter reducing the need for manual search for data and data sources. QuickView for PALS was developed in PowerBuilder with embedded MapObjects controls. This interface allows counter personnel to quickly look up and perform their most common map and database queries, previously done by hand, involving multiple map and database sources, in a timely manner. Rather than re-implementing previously developed tools provided by CountyView, a county-wide ArcView application, which allows for easy access to more than 150 themes of county GIS data, the PALS Permit Counter System allows for integrated access to CountyView from within the application. This is extremely useful for checking GIS data on an ad hoc basis for individual requests at the PALS counter. Geocoding is also done through CountyView. ArcView uses a more robust geocoding implementation allowing for a higher percentage match rate of the many unusual Pierce County types of addresses. Discussion will center around the use and development of the system and some of the technical details.

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QuickView was developed for the Planning and Land Services (PALS) counter personnel, most of whom have had no contact with GIS prior to being trained to use this application. It was made for the new generation of GIS users who have for the most part never even heard of that letter combination before. Therefore it needed be easy to use and look familiar to those using it. That type of look and feel is what MapObjects does so well for applications with a GIS component in them. The only thing the user sees differently from the other applications is the fact that they can see a map. PowerBuilder, VisualBasic or other windows based interface designers, is well suited for creating applications with a consistent look and feel. Pierce County has developed a set of standards for PowerBuilder design along with a set objects available to all application developers to use, in order to maintain a common look and feel to a wide range of applications. MapObjects merely provides additional classes of objects available to the developer for use with GIS components. QuickView does display a map but its real function is to return in table format GIS data extracted using the common GIS concepts of location and proximity.

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The PALS counter already uses an application to derive information about active and past building permits and this application serves it purpose well but it cannot find by itself other spatially associated data for a particular permit or parcel. QuickView is designed to fill in those holes. A User of the system logs into the database using the same login and password used to gain access to the existing system. Once logged in the user sees a screen with two blank tables some line input fields for searching and a map of Pierce County showing Cities and major roads. This window contain two tabs a Search tab and a Details tab. By default it opens to the Search tab.

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The Search tab allows for searches to be done on currently active permits and the associated parcels. Searches can be performed from Parcel Number, Permit Number, Owner Name, Applicant Name, Site Address and Quarter Section number. The Owner Name, Applicant Name and Address search fields can be filled with only partial information supplied, i.e. entering w in Owner Name will return all the names beginning with w. Combinations of fields can also be used for searching such as all the Names beginning with b in Quarter Section 0318111. Once the search is entered the two data windows are populated with all the appropriately matching data. By default the first row is selected and the lower Permit data window is populated with active permits to that parcel and the map zooms to the location of and shades in the selected parcel. The data window column heading provides sort capability for the column clicked on. This is a common feature seen in most Pierce County applications.

Once located on the selected parcel the user can interact with the map in various ways. There is a set of buttons down the left side of the map. This map Tool Bar is very similar to the Tool Bar available in ArcView. As discussed below Pierce County uses a customized ArcView application called CountyView a generic GIS data viewer. Therefore those using QuickView who have also used CountyView will have no problem interacting with the tools and map in QuickView. The tools as shown below include many common GIS map tools, such as zoom in and out, pan, measure and identify. One of the useful additional tools is a maptips tool which allows the user to return information about a particular feature on the map by merely passing the cursor over that feature. This is much like what is commonly seen with buttons on windows applications.

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Other map interaction tools include a popup menu for displaying additional layers of GIS data on the map an Active Themes button for choosing which theme will display with the identify button and a Locator Switch for changing the display of the map from being zoomed-in to the selected parcel to an overview of the County with a red box display where the current map extent is within the county.

A second tab for QuickView holds the real value of this application, this is the Details tab. Upon clicking the Details tab three new data windows are displayed along with the map of the selected parcel with two new sets of buttons. The new data windows are populated based upon the location of the selected parcel. These data windows return only GIS data all of which are maintained as shapefiles in the GIS database. The uppermost data window is labeled General Information and contains GIS data available for the location of the selected parcel. This is locational data which exists for the same geographic location as the parcel. Included here are city, fire district, school district, Indian reservation, Urban Growth area, zoning, frost depth, snow load and wind speed. The lower two data windows contain proximity data, such as nearest road and some of its attributes, sewer line, flood zone, volcanic hazard and wetland. All of this data previously had to be ascertained from hard copy maps most of which needed to be

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The PALS counter already uses an application to derive information about active and past building permits and this application serves it purpose well but it cannot find by itself other spatially associated data for a particular permit or parcel. QuickView is designed to fill in those holes. A User of the system logs into the database using the same login and password used to gain access to the existing system. Once logged in the user sees a screen with two blank tables some line input fields for searching and a map of Pierce County showing Cities and major roads. This window contain two tabs a Search tab and a Details tab. By default it opens to the Search tab.

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The Search tab allows for searches to be done on currently active permits and the associated parcels. Searches can be performed from Parcel Number, Permit Number, Owner Name, Applicant Name, Site Address and Quarter Section number. The Owner Name, Applicant Name and Address search fields can be filled with only partial information supplied, i.e. entering w in Owner Name will return all the names beginning with w. Combinations of fields can also be used for searching such as all the Names beginning with b in Quarter Section 0318111. Once the search is entered the two data windows are populated with all the appropriately matching data. By default the first row is selected and the lower Permit data window is populated with active permits to that parcel and the map zooms to the location of and shades in the selected parcel. The data window column heading provides sort capability for the column clicked on. This is a common feature seen in most Pierce County applications.

Once located on the selected parcel the user can interact with the map in various ways. There is a set of buttons down the left side of the map. This map Tool Bar is very similar to the Tool Bar available in ArcView. As discussed below Pierce County uses a customized ArcView application called CountyView a generic GIS data viewer. Therefore those using QuickView who have also used CountyView will have no problem interacting with the tools and map in QuickView. The tools as shown below include many common GIS map tools, such as zoom in and out, pan, measure and identify. One of the useful additional tools is a maptips tool which allows the user to return information about a particular feature on the map by merely passing the cursor over that feature. This is much like what is commonly seen with buttons on windows applications.

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Other map interaction tools include a popup menu for displaying additional layers of GIS data on the map an Active Themes button for choosing which theme will display with the identify button and a Locator Switch for changing the display of the map from being zoomed-in to the selected parcel to an overview of the County with a red box display where the current map extent is within the county.

A second tab for QuickView holds the real value of this application, this is the Details tab. Upon clicking the Details tab three new data windows are displayed along with the map of the selected parcel with two new sets of buttons. The new data windows are populated based upon the location of the selected parcel. These data windows return only GIS data all of which are maintained as shapefiles in the GIS database. The uppermost data window is labeled General Information and contains GIS data available for the location of the selected parcel. This is locational data which exists for the same geographic location as the parcel. Included here are city, fire district, school district, Indian reservation, Urban Growth area, zoning, frost depth, snow load and wind speed. The lower two data windows contain proximity data, such as nearest road and some of its attributes, sewer line, flood zone, volcanic hazard and wetland. All of this data previously had to be ascertained from hard copy maps most of which needed to be

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