Streets (Centerline)

This street centerline lines feature class represents current right of way in the City of Los Angeles. It shows the official street names and is related to the official street name data. The Mapping and Land Records Division of the Bureau of Engineering, Department of Public Works provides the most current geographic information of the public right of way. The right of way information is available on NavigateLA, a website hosted by the Bureau of Engineering, Department of Public Works. Street Centerline layer was created in geographical information systems (GIS) software to display Dedicated street centerlines. The street centerline layer is a feature class in the LACityCenterlineData.gdb Geodatabase dataset. The layer consists of spatial data as a line feature class and attribute data for the features. City of LA District Offices use Street Centerline layer to determine dedication and street improvement requirements. Engineering street standards are followed to dedicate the street for development. The Bureau of Street Services tracks the location of existing streets, who need to maintain that road. Additional information was added to Street Centerline layer. Address range attributes were added make layer useful for geocoding. Section ID values from Bureau of Street Services were added to make layer useful for pavement management. Department of City Planning added street designation attributes taken from Community Plan maps. The street centerline relates to the Official Street Name table named EASIS, Engineering Automated Street Inventory System, which contains data describing the limits of the street segment. A street centerline segment should only be added to the Street Centerline layer if documentation exists, such as a Deed or a Plan approved by the City Council. Paper streets are street lines shown on a recorded plan but have not yet come into existence on the ground. These street centerline segments are in the Street Centerline layer because there is documentation such as a Deed or a Plan for the construction of that street. Previously, some street line features were added although documentation did not exist. Currently, a Deed, Tract, or a Plan must exist in order to add street line features. Many street line features were edited by viewing the Thomas Bros Map's Transportation layer, TRNL_037 coverage, back when the street centerline coverage was created. When TBM and BOE street centerline layers were compared visually, TBM's layer contained many valid streets that BOE layer did not contain. In addition to TBM streets, Planning Department requested adding street line segments they use for reference. Further, the street centerline layer features are split where the lines intersect. The intersection point is created and maintained in the Intersection layer. The intersection attributes are used in the Intersection search function on NavigateLA on BOE's web mapping application NavigateLA. The City of Los Angeles Municipal code states, all public right-of-ways (roads, alleys, etc) are streets, thus all of them have intersections. Note that there are named alleys in the BOE Street Centerline layer. Since the line features for named alleys are stored in the Street Centerline layer, there are no line features for named alleys in those areas that are geographically coincident in the Alley layer. For a named alley , the corresponding record contains the street designation field value of ST_DESIG = 20, and there is a name stored in the STNAME and STSFX fields. List of Fields: SHAPE: Feature geometry. OBJECTID: Internal feature number. STNAME_A: Street name Alias. ST_SUBTYPE: Street subtype. SV_STATUS: Status of street in service, whether the street is an accessible roadway. Values: • Y - Yes • N - No TDIR: Street direction. Values: • S - South • N - North • E - East • W - West ADLF: From address range, left side. ZIP_R: Zip code right. ADRT: To address range, right side. INT_ID_TO: Street intersection identification number at the line segment's end node. The value relates to the intersection layer attribute table, to the CL_NODE_ID field. The values are assigned automatically and consecutively by the ArcGIS software first to the street centerline data layer and then the intersections data layer, during the creation of new intersection points. Each intersection identification number is a unique value. SECT_ID: Section ID used by the Bureau of Street Services. Values: • none - No Section ID value • private - Private street • closed - Street is closed from service • temp - Temporary • propose - Proposed construction of a street • walk - Street line is a walk or walkway • known as - • numeric value - A 7 digit numeric value for street resurfacing • outside - Street line segment is outside the City of Los Angeles boundary • pierce - Street segment type • alley - Named alley STSFX_A: Street suffix Alias. SFXDIR: Street direction suffix Values: • N - North • E - East • W - West • S - South CRTN_DT: Creation date of the polygon feature. STNAME: Street name. ZIP_L: Zip code left. STSFX: Street suffix. Values: • BLVD - Boulevard ADLT: To address range, left side. ID: Unique line segment identifier MAPSHEET: The alpha-numeric mapsheet number, which refers to a valid B-map or A-map number on the Cadastral tract index map. Values: • ___B___, ___A___, ___-5A___ - Any of these alpha-numeric combinations are used, whereas the underlined spaces are the numbers. STNUM: Street identification number. This field relates to the Official Street Name table named EASIS, to the corresponding STR_ID field. ASSETID: User-defined feature autonumber. TEMP: This attribute is no longer used. This attribute was used to enter 'R' for reference arc line segments that were added to the spatial data, in coverage format. Reference lines were temporary and not part of the final data layer. After editing the permanent line segments, the user would delete temporary lines given by this attribute. LST_MODF_DT: Last modification date of the polygon feature. REMARKS: This attribute is a combination of remarks about the street centerline. Values include a general remark, the Council File number, which refers the street status, or whether a private street is a private driveway. The Council File number can be researched on the City Clerk's website [http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/] INT_ID_FROM: Street intersection identification number at the line segment's start node. The value relates to the intersection layer attribute table, to the CL_NODE_ID field. The values are assigned automatically and consecutively by the ArcGIS software first to the street centerline data layer and then the intersections data layer, during the creation of new intersection points. Each intersection identification number is a unique value. ADRF: From address range, right side.