This layer depicts the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act (CBPA) areas in Hampton Roads, Virginia, categorized into three delineations:

This layer depicts the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act (CBPA) areas in Newport News, Virginia, categorized into three delineations: Resource Protection Areas (RPA) include both tidal and connected non-tidal wetlands, as well as tidal shores, and a landward riparian buffer of 100 feet which has the greatest potential to protect and benefit water quality. Resource Management Areas (RMA) area adjacent to the RPA and have the potential to damage water quality without proper management. Only those RMA areas that have a designated boundary are in included in this layer. Some localities define the RMA as the remaining area of the locality that is not in the RPA and therefore no separate boundary is needed.Intensely Developed Areas (IDA) must be designated in the city or county code. Not all localities have designated IDAs. An IDA overlays redevelopment areas that may otherwise be subjected to stricter enforcement of the RPA.Note that the areas provided in this layer are meant for general planning use. Consult with local CBPA staff for questions about the determination and enforcement of CBPA areas.

Areas within the City that come under the purview of the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act. Maintained by the Planning Department.

The Chesapeake Bay Preservation Ordinance was adopted to protect our local streams and one of the world's most productive estuaries, the Chesapeake Bay, from pollution due to land use and development. All of Fairfax County drains into the Potomac River and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay. In an effort to protect and improve the quality of these waterways, sensitive areas along streams throughout Fairfax County have been designated as Resource Protection Areas.

State regulations require that Resource Protection Areas (RPAs) be designated around all water bodies with perennial flow. Perennial flow means that water always flows in the stream or other water body except during periods of drought. The Department of Public Works and Environmental Services conducted field studies to identify all perennial streams throughout the county and used this information to prepare a set of maps showing the location of RPAs as defined under the revised Ordinance. The maps were adopted by the Board on November 17, 2003.

The data include the boundaries of the RPAs adopted by the Board in 1993 and the additional RPAs adopted by the Board in 2003. These are general locations of RPA boundaries for planning purposes and the actual limits may be further refined by detailed field studies conducted at the time a plan is submitted to obtain a permit to develop a property.

Any areas within Fairfax County not contained within the RPAs are Resource Management Areas (RMAs). Together, the RPAs and RMAs comprise the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas.

The VDEQ provided grant funds to Charles City to support the development of improved Chesapeake Bay Preservation District Area maps ( Resource Protection Area and Resource Management Area) GIS map overlays and digital datasets including analysis to generate a new RPA map and meta data using off-site publicly available mapping (soils, wetlands, USGS streams, floodplains, topography and other environmental constraints).

The largest estuary in North America, the Chesapeake Bay Watershed covers 64,000 square miles and includes more than 150 rivers and streams that drain into the Bay. More than 300 species of fish, shellfish and crab species and a wide array of other wildlife call the Bay home. With almost 30 percent of area in agricultural production, the region’s over 83,000 farms generate more than $10 billion annually. The Chesapeake Bay Watershed depends on a future that includes an agricultural sector that is not only productive but also protects natural resources. The 2013 CEAP study, “Impacts of Conservation Adoption on Cultivated Acres of Cropland in the Chesapeake Bay Region, 2003-06 to 2011,” shows that there have been significant reductions in nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment loading from cropland in the region in recent years. However, the report also estimates that nearly 20 percent of cropland acres still have a high level of conservation treatment need. With the CCA designation, USDA will build on existing strong partnerships in the watershed to design and help fund innovative projects that will address these conservation needs, ultimately supporting rural economies, protecting wildlife habitat and improving water quality in the Bay. This dataset includes a printer-friendly CCA map and shapefiles for GIS. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Chesapeake Bay Watershed. File Name: Web Page, url: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs-initiatives/rcpp-regional-conservation-partnership-program/critical-conservation-areas Information about the project and links to a printer-friendly CCA map (PDF, 1MB) and Shapefiles for GIS (ZIP, 160KB).

SourceChesapeake Conservation PartnershipLocationPennsylvania, New York, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.DescriptionEnergy is a vital input to supporting our way of life. Yet, energy production and transmission also have the potential to adversely impact values we treasure. Harmonizing our needs with our values requires solid understanding of both conservation goals and existing and proposed energy infrastructure.The map depicts known data related to energy production and infrastructure.Creating the map included acquiring and displaying data on the full range of energy production -- from geologic potential, to areas of resource extraction, energy production, and transmission including both renewable energy and fossil fuels.The map also shows proposed and potential energy projects including potential fracking sites, proposed gas storage sites, proposed gas pipelines, and proposed electric transmission lines.All data is compiled from publicly available sources including the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data, state agencies, and non-governmental organizations.In particular, data on potential and proposed projects come from a variety of sources, including non-governmental organizations tracking these projects, agencies regulating the projects and utilities proposing them. This dataset will be the most difficult to keep current across six states with many different entities in charge of the various projects.How you might make use of this data layerThis dataset shares the locations of energy resources and infrastructure. This information may be useful in understanding how infrastructure may influence land conservation and stewardship.How to get more informationFor more information about the Chesapeake Conservation Partnership contact: John Griffin, Program Manager, jgriffin@chesapeakeconservation.org

Open the Data Resource: https://gis.chesapeakebay.net/ags/rest/services/InterGIT/HUC12_Cons_Composite/MapServer To develop this data resource, Chesapeake Bay Program Goal Implementation Teams (GITs) were asked to identify data layers that represented resources that reflected important geographic areas to conserve or restore based on the goals and outcomes of the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. There are several considerations for mapping geographic areas, including:

Focus on places most important for living resources (fish, wildlife and people); Identify areas to focus restoration and conservation activities; Consider threats from land and climate change; and Identify areas where multiple partners are already working or consider priorities.

Data was assembled from a wide variety of sources and reclassified according to values for conservation based on GIT-specific criteria. Data layers were reclassified into 30-m grids and combined into composite conservation suitability rankings. The 30-meter grids were aggregated to USGS HUC-12 boundaries to give a composite watershed conservation score. Finally, these watershed scores were ranked from high to low to establish quintile classes within each jurisdiction. The Cross-GIT HUC-12 Conservation Composite complements the Cross-GIT HUC-12 Restoration Composite: https://gis.chesapeakebay.net/ags/rest/services/InterGIT/HUC12_Rest_Composite/MapServer Learn more about the Cross-GIT Mapping Project with this story map: https://gis.chesapeakebay.net/cross-git/overview/

Open the Data Resource: https://gis-data.chesapeakebay.net/cblcm_vul/vul_clssd_cz_AC.zip Open the Map Service: https://gis.chesapeakebay.net/ags/rest/services/WIP/UrbanGrowth_030720/MapServer/23 The Agricultural Conservation Vulnerability layers represent the vulnerability of locations to development under Agricultural Conservation conditions based on running the Chesapeake Bay Land Change Model (CBLCM). This scenario prohibits development in the areas outlined under the Agriculture Conservation layer. In this data, development through the years 2025, 2035, 2045 and 2055 is simulated 101 times. Vulnerability to development represents the cumulative frequency over time that an area was developed over those 101 iterations. Values in the raster data:

NoData: Area cannot be developed; Common unsuitable lands across scenarios include protected lands, floodways, etc. The scenarios listed above describe additional unsuitable lands for the given scenario. 1: Very Low Vulnerability to Development 2: Low Vulnerability to Development 3: Moderate Vulnerability to Development 4: Moderate - High Vulnerability to Development 5: High Vulnerability to Development 6: Very High Vulnerability to Development

The 2022 version is available here: https://data-chesbay.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/protected-lands-2022-1/aboutThis dataset is a complete, aggregated layer of protected lands and has been clipped to the Cheseapeake Bay Watershed. It is a combination of multiple State, Federal and Non-Governmental Organization sources. Overlapping and duplicate areas may be present.The Chesapeake Bay Program defines protected lands as lands that are permanently protected from development, whether by purchase, donation, a perpetual conservation or open space easement, or fee ownership for their cultural, historical, ecological or agricultural value. This definition includes non-traditional conservation mechanisms like transfer or purchase of development rights programs. Lands protected through easements and purchase of development rights typically remain in private ownership. Protected lands include: county, town, city, state and federal parks; designated open space and recreational land; publicly owned forests and wetlands; privately owned working farms or forests with conservation easements; historically important lands, such as protected battlefields, colonial towns and farms; military-owned parks and recreational areas.Data sources include but are not limited to the following:U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project (GAP), May 2018, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PADUS), Version 2.0 Combined Feature Class (Fee and Easement), Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Maryland Department of Planning, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (Division of Fish and Wildlife), Freshwater Institute (WV Protected Lands), PA Bureau of Farmland Preservation, PA Department of Conservation & Natural Resources, Pennsylvania Land Trust Association (PALTA), VA Department of Conservation and Recreation.The USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the nation's inventory of protected areas, including public land and voluntarily provided private protected areas, identified as an A-16 National Geospatial Data Asset in the Cadastre Theme (https://communities.geoplatform.gov/ngda-cadastre/). The PAD-US is an ongoing project with several published versions of a spatial database including areas dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity, and other natural (including extraction), recreational, or cultural uses, managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. The database was originally designed to support biodiversity assessments; however, its scope expanded in recent years to include all public and nonprofit lands and waters. Most are public lands owned in fee; however, long-term easements, leases, agreements, Congressional (e.g. 'Wilderness Area'), Executive (e.g. 'National Monument'), and administrative designations (e.g. 'Area of Critical Environmental Concern') documented in agency management plans are also included. The PAD-US strives to be a complete inventory of public land and other protected areas, compiling “best available” data provided by managing agencies and organizations. The PAD-US geodatabase maps and describes areas with over twenty-five attributes in nine feature classes to support data management, queries, web mapping services, and analyses. This PAD-US Version 2.0 dataset includes a variety of updates and changes from the previous Version 1.4 dataset. The following list summarizes major updates and changes: 1) Expanded database structure with new layers: the geodatabase feature class structure now includes nine feature classes separating fee owned lands, conservation (and other) easements, management designations overlapping fee lands, marine areas, proclamation boundaries and various 'Combined' feature classes (e.g. 'Fee' + 'Easement' + 'Designation' feature classes); 2) Major update of the Federal estate including data from 8 agencies, developed in collaboration with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Federal Lands Working Group (FLWG, https://communities.geoplatform.gov/ngda-govunits/federal-lands-workgroup/); 3) Major updates to 30 States and limited additions to 16 other States; 4) Integration of The Nature Conservancy's (TNC) Secured Lands geodatabase; 5) Integration of Ducks Unlimited's (DU) Conservation and Recreation Lands (CARL) database; 6) Integration of The Trust for Public Land's (TPL) Conservation Almanac database; 7) The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Lands database update: the national source of lands owned in fee or managed by TNC; 8) National Conservation Easement Database (NCED) update: complete update of non-sensitive (suitable for publication in the public domain) easements; 9) Complete National Marine Protected Areas (MPA) update: from the NOAA MPA Inventory, including conservation measure ('GAP Status Code', 'IUCN Category') review by NOAA; 10) First integration of Bureau of Energy Ocean Management (BOEM) managed marine lands: BOEM submitted Outer Continental Shelf Area lands managed for natural resources (minerals, oil and gas), a significant and new addition to PAD-US; 11) Fee boundary overlap assessment: topology overlaps in the PAD-US 2.0 'Fee' feature class have been identified and are available for user and data-steward reference (See Logical_Consistency_Report Section). For more information regarding the PAD-US dataset please visit, https://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/. For more information about data aggregation please review the “Data Manual for PAD-US” available at https://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/data/manual/ .