This layer represents current city parcels within the City of Los Angeles. It shares topology with the Landbase parcel lines feature class. 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, ownership and land record information. The legal boundaries are determined on the ground by license surveyors in the State of California, and by recorded documents from the Los Angeles County Recorder's office and the City Clerk's office of the City of Los Angeles. Parcel and ownership information are available on NavigateLA, a website hosted by the Bureau of Engineering, Department of Public Works.

Associated information about the landbase parcels is entered into attributes. Principal attributes include:

PIN and PIND: represents the unique auto-generated parcel identifier and key to related features and tables. This field is related to the LA_LEGAL, LA_APN and LA_HSE_NBR tables. PIN contains spaces and PIND replaces those spaces with a dash (-).

LA_LEGAL - Table attributes containing legal description. Principal attributes include the following:

TRACT: The subdivision tract number as recorded by the County of Los Angeles

MAP_REF: Identifies the subdivision map book reference as recorded by the County of Los Angeles.

LOT: The subdivision lot number as recorded by the County of Los Angeles.

ENG_DIST: The four engineering Districts (W=Westla, C=Central, V= Valley and H=Harbor).

CNCL_DIST: Council Districts 1-15 of the City of Los Angeles. OUTLA means parcel is outside the City.

LA_APN- Table attributes containing County of Los Angeles Assessors information. Principal attributes include the following:

BPP: The Book, Page and Parcel from the Los Angeles County Assessors office.

SITUS*: Address for the property.

LA_HSE_NBR - Table attributes containing housenumber information. Principal attributes include the following:

HSE_ID: Unique id of each housenumber record.

HSE_NBR: housenumber numerical value

STR_*: Official housenumber address

For a complete list of attribute values, please refer to Landbase_parcel_polygons_data_dictionary.