Kenai Watershed Forum is generating parcel-specific comments related to the 2021 City of Kenai Land Management Plan. The draft plan can be found at https://www.kenai.city/lands/page/land-management-plan.
Parcels: we acquired a csv file of current parcel data (as of 2021-11-19) from the Kenai Peninsula Borough GIS REST server, available at the following link: KPB GIS REST Server. We imported the layer to a new desktop project in ArcMap 10.8.1 and created a shapefile of all City of Kenai owned parcels (n = 359).
Wetlands: we created a layer of all wetlands within City of Kenai owned parcels using the Clip geoprocessing tool. We sourced the wetlands shape file from the Cook Inlet Wetlands Mapping Project (Gracz 2017), and exported the attribute table to this project’s GitHub repository.
Anadramous Waters: we created a layer of all anadramous waters clipped within City of Kenai owned parcels using the Clip tool. We sourced the anadromous waters shape file from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (2021).
Cold Water Inputs: we included known locations of cold-water seeps and springs within the lower Beaver Creek drainage. Further details on data acquisition for these locations can be accessed in the draft in-progress report, “Kenai River Thermal Imagery.”
City of Kenai 2021 Draft Land Management Plan: we extracted parcel-specific management designations and comments from the City of Kenai Land Management Plan (Final Draft 2021) using Tabula software, then converted and collated all tables to a single spreadsheet format. The table includes land management recommendations for parcels owned by the City of Kenai, including manager comments and retention status.
We joined the comments and retention data to the City of Kenai parcel layer by parcel ID using the Join Table tool in ArcGIS Online. We color coded parcel status as either “Retain” (e.g. do not sell); “Dispose,” (e.g. potentially sell), or “Mixed.”
We created a map in ArcGIS Online where all parcels described in the 2021 Management Plan can be accessed in a point-and click fashion. The parcels are superimposed atop the other layers described above (wetlands, anadramous water, and cold water inputs). The map can be accessed at https://arcg.is/1Oq9Kq. :::
Comments
We used the ArcGIS Online map to develop comments on select parcels described in the 2021 Management Plan and input them in the PDF Template Comment file.