Dakota County Minnesota: Mapping Common Interest Communities with County Tax Parcel Records Using GIS Technology
Figure 1. Minneapolis – St. Paul Metropolitan Area Community Designations
Figure 2. Dakota Cities and Townships with Common Interest Community Parcels
Figure 3. Common Interest Community Parcel Detail
Figure 4. Apple Valley Common Interest Communities
Figure 5. Burnsville Common Interest Communities
Figure 6. Eagan Common Interest Communities
Figure 7. Inver Grove Heights Common Interest Communities
Figure 8. Lakeville Common Interest Communities
Figure 9. Percent of Households with Persons Age 60+ with Common Interest Community Parcels
Figure 10. Dakota County Commissioner District #3 with Common Interest Communities
Figure 12. Apple Valley Health Care Facilities with Common Interest Communities
Figure 13. Apple Valley MVTA Transit Stops and Route 440 with Common Interest Communities
Figure 14. Apple Valley Fire Station and Common Interest Communities
Figure 15. Apple Valley Social Engagement Sites with Common Interest Communities
Figure 16. Apple Valley Recreation Fitness Features with Common Interest Communities
Tables
Table 1. Dakota County City and Township 2018 Preliminary Population and Household Estimates
Table 2. Count and Percent of Dakota County Common Interest Communities by City
Table 3. Dakota County Tax Parcel Variables and Definitions
Table 5. Comparison of Tax Parcel and U.S. Census Population Sample Survey Variables
About the Author
Lynn Boergerhoff, MPH, conducts research on Common Interest Communities (CICs) as Community Association Atlas, LLC., in Lakeville, Minnesota. Lynn has managed research projects from design and methods through data collection, analysis and reporting. His research interests include the geography of CICs and their spatial relation to community services and resources as well as characteristics of CIC housing and households. He has worked with data from the American Community Survey, the American Housing Survey and local parcel data found in land records. He has presented his work at a Community Associations Institute conference, in the CAI Fact Book and in CAI-MN Community Living. Lynn has 9 year’s experience in CIC Board leadership.
The Foundation for Community Association Research (FCAR) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization devoted to common interest community research, development, and scholarship. Incorporated in 1975, the Foundation supports and conducts research in the community association industry. Each year for the past several years, the Foundation has expanded its efforts to bring important community association data to a wider audience. For the recently published Community Association Fact Book 2019, the Foundation has sponsored a new Part Eight, Dakota County Minnesota: Mapping Common Interest Communities with County Tax Parcel Records Using GIS Technology. Please join the Foundation and help us with our goals.
The new Part Eight that Past President Brumfield mentioned is a demonstration project funded by a grant from the Foundation for Community Association Research. In this report, Lynn Boergerhoff, MPH, describes a systematic method using Geographic Information System (GIS) software to identify and map townhomes, condominiums and cooperatives using parcel data found in the land records from Dakota County, Minnesota. The result is a first look at how parcel data might be used to explore the geography of community associations and their spatial relation to community services and resources important to Aging-in-Place. FCAR has several research projects underway. Check us out. Contact FCAR staff: Dawn Bauman or Jake Gold.