Measure frontage distance of a parcel

Question

I am trying to measure the lineal distance of parcels next to local roads for a project I'm working on. The challenge I'm facing is that the client wants only the distance of the portion of the parcel that runs next to the street. Is there a way to have a tool or set of tools in Model Builder that selects only the portion of a parcel/polygon?

rmaltusch_localgov · Answer

Hi there, did you ever find a solution or workflow that worked for this? Thank you!

jcarlson · Answer

Any chance your parcels have linear boundary features? Or are they just polygons?

AndyAnderson · Answer

Are your streets polygons that extend from property line to property line (rather than just a centerline)?

If so, run the Intersect tool and place the result in a database, you’ll automatically get the frontage length for each property along each street.

If not, perhaps you can construct such a set of street polygons by hand-creating a polygon that surrounds the properties in question, then running the Erase tool to “punch out” the properties, leaving only streets. You won’t know street names then, but that may not be necessary for this purpose.

P.S. The assumption here is that the property lines are actually polylines; if not, you’ll need to convert them with the tool Feature to Line.

— Andy