Description:This parcel layer is used by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection as a data source for creating a statewide layer of permanently protected open space for the Protected Open Space Mapping (POSM) project. The statewide layer of permanently protected open space includes a small subset of parcels from this layer. Work on the project ended in 2011.
The data in the parcel layer was obtained from individual Connecticut municipalities. An effort was made to collect data once from each municipality. It does not include data from every municipality in Connecticut. The data acquisition date for each set of parcel data was not recorded and CT DEEP does not keep this information up-to-date. Consequently, these data are out-of-date, incomplete and do not reflect the current state of property ownership in these municipalities. These parcels are not to be considered legal boundaries such as boundaries determined from certain classified survey maps or deed descriptions. Parcel boundaries shown in this layer are based on information from municipalities used for property tax purposes. Parcel boundaries and attribute information have not been updated in this layer since the time the information was originally acquired by CT DEEP. Field attribute values are populated only if the information was supplied to CT DEEP. Therefore, field attributes are inconsistent, may include gaps, and do not represent complete sets of values among all towns. They should not be compared and analyzed across towns. Critical decisions involving parcel-level information be based on more recently obtained information from the respective municipalities. These data are only suitable for general reference purposes.