Introduction

Pitt Meadows is small municipality of approximately 14,700 people located in the northeast section of the GVRD. Traditionally, it has been an agricultural community. However, it is now facing urbanization pressures with some fairly significant commercial development occurring within its confines. The District's use of GIS throughout the past few years has been limited to using arc shapefiles and coverages, with little formal structure. The completion of this GIS implementation project will not only mark a significant improvement in the structure of Pitt Meadow's GIS data, but also increase its ability to use GIS as an analytical tool to better manage urban growth.

This project can be thought of as a good initial Geodatabase for the District of Pitt Meadows. This GIS Database Solution, as it is termed, will integrate and organize the spatial data in a manner that is both useful to the District and wary of its business requirements, standardizing the data set in the process. While it may not solve all of the data 'problems' for Pitt Meadows, it can be considered a reasonable start to a substantial, multi-phase project. Wherever possible, procedures and data standards were chosen to comply with the Integrated Cadastral Initiative.