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Welcome to the City of Vassar Online Data Access Tool and Interactive Map!

This website allows you to view geographic information for the City of Vassar, Michigan.  With this website, you can display information such as parcels, land use and zoning codes, water/wetland areas, and aerial photography.  You have the ability to search for a parcel and display its information as well as spatially display other types of information.

In addition, this application allows you to locate a parcel in the City of Vassar and determine whether it is in the floodway, 100-year floodplain, or 500-year floodplain. This is a result of your community having restrictions on constructing new buildings or placing any fill in the floodway as well as requirements for any structures already located in the floodway. Before any construction or development can occur in any of the flood areas, the City of Vassar requires an engineering analysis of your structures and a Flood Elevation Letter. Also, if your parcel is within the immediate floodway or 100 year floodplain, you may be eligible for flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program.   

To obtain a Flood Elevation Letter, you must submit a request form to the city.  You can print this request form from this site if your parcel is determined to be within one of the floodplain areas.  

To locate a parcel, you can search by address, owner name, or parcel identification number (PIN). Once you have located the parcel, you can determine if it is in a flood area by clicking . You will then be notified if this parcel requires an Elevation Request Form to be submitted to the city before any construction or development is performed.  
How To Use This Site
Understanding the Vassar Toolbar
Setting the Initial Map Display
How to use this site
A  Example Map
Here is an example of a map you might see on this website. The example map to the right shows these features:

  Selected (highlighted) parcel
  Floodway
  100-year floodplain
  500-year floodplain

B  Map Toolbars
The top toolbar is for viewing different help pages as well as navigating through the site.  The bottom toolbar contains standard tools for navigating the map and analyzing the data.  

C  Search Tabs 
Use these tabs to search by PIN, by address, or by name. To locate a parcel, click one of the tabs, fill in the blank, and click .

D  Layer List/Legend View 
This area of the map lists all of the map layers or the map legend, depending on the view.  By clicking on the first button in the toolbar, you can change the view from the layer list to the map legend.  The legend view is dynamic.  It lists the features in whatever layers you have displayed through the layer list, such as land use and zoning.  To turn on one or more layers, toggle the view to the layer list. Check the box beside the layer name and click . The layers at the top of the list will appear on top of the map, possibly obscuring the layers listed further down the list.

E  Parcel Information
This area of the screen displays parcel information. The type of information displayed here depends on the tool that you are currently using.  The Identify, Find, Measure, Buffer, Print, and Floodplain Analysis information all displays here. When a floodplain analysis determines that a parcel is in a floodplain or a floodway, the button for an Elevation Letter Request is here.
Understanding the Vassar Toolbar
The Vassar toolbar allows users to easily navigate to the other pages within the site.  These additional pages contain  help information for all of the tools within the interactive map, floodplain definitions, and descriptions of the land use and zoning codes.  Below are brief descriptions of what each button does.
Click this button to enter the interactive map site.
Click this button to display help information about the map tools.
Click this button to display descriptions of the land use and zoning codes.
Click this button to display floodplain definitions.
Click this button to go to the City of Vassar website.
Click this button to return to this welcome page.
Setting the Initial Map Display
You can turn certain map layers on or off before you open the interactive map.  To do so, select the layers you wish to view initially:
Parcel Information Important Information
For optimal viewing of the interactive map, your monitor's screen resolution should be set to a minimum of 1024 x 768 pixels. The site is best viewed at 1152 x 864 pixels.
Flood Information
Land Use
Zoning
Aerial Photography

Information contained within this website may be used as a visual aid to generally locate, identify, and inventory land parcels within the City of Vassar. There are inherent errors and limitations associated with this type of electronic medium. The City of Vassar (and its service provider) cannot warrant or guarantee the information contained herein, including, but not limited to, its accuracy or completeness.

The map parcel lines shown are approximate and are intended to represent the City of Vassar for the 2002 tax year; however, any specific information on particular parcels may not be current. Any such information cannot be construed or used as a “legal description” of a parcel.

In no event shall the City of Vassar or its service provider be liable for damages that may arise from the use of this map or the information that it contains including, but not limited to, loss of data, loss of profits, business interruptions, loss of business, or other pecuniary loss.

© 2002, City of Vassar, Michigan. All rights reserved. Please report any errors or omissions to the City of Vassar.

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