Project Name:

Kitsap County Land Use Information System

Project Dates: 

June 2000 through February 2003

Project Description:

Prior to the year 2000, Kitsap County began the process of replacing legacy systems for assessment/taxation and permitting. This new system would include components for assessment/taxation, permitting, and would be tightly integrated with the County’s ArcInfo GIS (geographic information system).  The primary goals of the project were to:

·       Re-design assessment/taxation functions using current technology

·       Integrate permitting data from multiple sources into a single, shared repository

·       Use assessment/taxation parcel information to drive the permitting process

·       Provide integrated GIS functionality

·       Deploy the application on the county intranet

·       Provide public access to selected functions via the Internet

·       Train county IS staff to take over on-going maintenance of the system

Kitsap County partnered with Paladin Data Systems to develop a fully integrated, browser-based system to meet the County’s requirements. The solution provides centralized data to support system wide compliance with complex codes, regulations, and inspection standards.

Paladin employed RAD (rapid application development) Methodology to analyze, design, and develop the application.  This approach utilizes module prototyping, an extensive library of reusable code, and existing modules to reduce the development time for new applications.  Using this methodology, Paladin completed the design and development of the Permitting Subsystem in 10 months.  This subsystem included integrated GIS functionality for reviewing building limitations and site address information.

Oracle Designer was used for system design.  The tool was used to develop and model the initial entities and functions, build the server model, generate the initial versions of form and report modules, and to manage the application schema.  The Oracle Designer Repository has also been used to document business rules and the change history of the application.

Technologies Used:

Oracle 8i, Oracle Designer, Oracle Web Forms, Oracle Reports, ESRI Arc SDE, ESRI ArcIMS, ESRI ArcInfo