Load right-of-ways

Available with Standard or Advanced license.

Right-of-way features in a parcel fabric can be represented as road centerlines, right-of-way polygons, or both. You can load both road centerlines and right-of-way polygons to a parcel fabric.

Load road centerlines

Unclosed parcels are used to represent road centerlines in the parcel fabric. An unclosed parcel does not rely on an internal traverse loop that closes onto its starting point. Unclosed parcels are line features but are stored as parcels in the parcel fabric.

Road centerlines should be loaded separately from regular parcel data. Road centerlines need to be in their own separate line feature class. An empty polygon feature class is added with the line feature class to the topology that is loaded to the fabric.

1. Create an empty polygon feature class in the same feature dataset as the line feature class containing the road centerlines.
2. Create a new topology and add both the line feature class and empty polygon feature class to the topology. Add the required set of rules to the topology.
3. Validate the topology and fix any topology errors.
Since there are no polygons, mark the [Line feature class] Must Be Covered By Boundary Of topology rule as an exception.
4. Add and populate a ParcelName attribute field and, optionally, a PlanName attribute field to the line feature class.

Note:

Road centerline features are loaded as separate, individual, unclosed parcels based on ParcelName and PlanName attributes on the feature class. If there are no ParcelName or PlanName attributes, connected line features are loaded as one single, unclosed parcel.

5. Add any other fields to the line feature class that you want to load to the parcel fabric. Make sure the same fields exist in the parcel fabric tables.

   Learn more about loading attribute fields to the parcel fabric

Attribute fields that match parcel fabric system fields such as ParcelName are loaded to the Parcels table in the parcel fabric.
6. To begin the loading process, open the Load A Topology To A Parcel Fabric geoprocessing tool.
If there is a selection present, the topology loader will only load the selected data. If there is no selection present in the map, the entire dataset is loaded.
7. Choose or specify the parcel fabric to which the data will be loaded under Target Parcel Fabric. Choose the road centerline feature class for Input (Topology) Feature Class. Enter any other necessary parameters and run the tool.

Load right-of-way polygons

Right-of-way polygons are loaded as regular parcels to the parcel fabric. You can load the right-of-way polygons along with the parcel polygons.

Tip:

It is recommended that large right-of-way polygons be split into smaller, more manageable polygons. Large right-of-way polygons are often grid-shaped polygon features that represent large right-of-way networks. Large right-of-way parcels can cause performance issues when editing adjacent parcels in the parcel fabric.