Maryland Priority Funding Area Boundaries and Eligibility Status

Boundaries for Maryland's Priority Funding Areas, a state policy tool for directing growth and infrastructure investment. The dataset is created and maintained by the Maryland Department of Planning and includes certification dates, eligibility status, and jurisdictional codes for 24 counties and Baltimore City. Its last known update was July 15, 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyzing land eligibility for state infrastructure funding using the STATE_ELIGIBLE_STATUS and COMMENT_STATUS columns.
• Mapping development patterns by jurisdiction using the JURSCODE (e.g., MONT for Montgomery County) and CPFA fields.
• Calculating the total acreage of designated growth areas within a county using the ACRES field.
• Identifying rural village boundaries for planning purposes using the RUVI_CODE and RUVI_NAME columns.
• Tracking the historical certification timeline of Priority Funding Areas using the CERT_DATE field.

Strengths

• Provides official state-level data from the Maryland Department of Planning, an authoritative source.
• Includes detailed categorical fields for eligibility (STATE_ELIGIBLE_STATUS), municipal status (MUN_CODE), and jurisdiction (JURSCODE).
• Covers a wide geographic scope, encompassing all 24 Maryland counties and Baltimore City.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, file size, and license are not provided by any source.
• The certification date (CERT_DATE) uses 1/1/1997 as a default, which may obscure the true certification timeline for some areas.
• The dataset description is repeated across multiple platform entries without providing additional or conflicting details.

Provenance

Source

Maryland Department of Planning

Collection Method

Created and maintained by the state agency as an official GIS boundary dataset.

Time Range

Certification dates from at least 1997 onward.

Freshness

Last updated July 15, 2024.

Geography

State of Maryland, USA.