Land Units

Land Units

“Land Unit” is a term that the Town of York Board is using to describe an area of land that is owned by a single landowner. The concept is important because the number of dwelling units that are allotted to land are based on the size of the land unit. A land unit is defined as parcels owned by the same landowner that share a boundary of at least 66 feet. For instance, if Bob Smith owns parcels A, B, and C, and the parcels are next to each other, sharing a boundary of at least 66 feet between each parcel, then parcels A, B, and C would be considered one land unit for the purposes of assigning dwelling units. Land units were derived using the Green County parcel map layer. Any parcels that had shared ownership and a common boundary (minimum 66 feet) were combined into one polygon and assigned a land unit ID. Land unit ID’s follow convention: (two-digit section)-(three digit id). The land units within a given section are generally numbered north to south.

Dwelling Unit summary maps are available for each Land Unit. The maps are organized by landowner name. To find your name, click on the first letter of your last name on the tabs along the top of the section below. Find your name in that section. You will see a link for each land unit you own. Click on the link, and the map will either open in a new browser window or download (depending on your browser settings). The maps are in Adobe PDF Format; to view the maps you will need either the free Adobe Acrobat Reader (available here) or another PDF reader.