City of Ocala, Florida land inventory · methodology
How this inventory is built
Every number on this site traces to a public record. This page explains the source, the rules, and what the city itself decides.
Source data
Parcel records come from Marion County Property Appraiser parcel data via the City of Ocala public GIS. We select every parcel whose recorded owner is City of Ocala, Florida (owner-name variants are verified against the county's own distinct owner list, so parcels owned by the school district, housing authority, or similarly-named private owners never appear here).
What “undeveloped” means here
Federal law does not define “undeveloped.” Our rule: a parcel is proposed as undeveloped when the county assessor records no improvement value on it (buildings and structures carry improvement value in this state, including on exempt government parcels). The flag is a proposal from data — City of Ocala, Florida reviews the draft line-by-line and confirms or removes each parcel. The city's judgment, not ours, decides what belongs in its database.
What we exclude, and why
Every parcel identified as undeveloped land owned by the grantee is listed — including right-of-way strips, sub-acre remnants, and parcels whose boundaries the source does not map. The statute requires a database identifying all such parcels, so nothing that qualifies is dropped; each parcel instead carries a category (vacant 484, remnant 15) that the city can reclassify on review. Parcels the assessor records as improved (74) are not part of an undeveloped-land inventory and are not listed.
- Slivers under 0.05 acres — right-of-way remnants and lot fragments, not usable land.
- Right-of-way and infrastructure land uses — streets, drainage, easements.
- Parcels we cannot locate — a record without verifiable coordinates never appears in a compliance artifact. It stays in our working data, flagged for research.
Update schedule
The inventory refreshes quarterly from the same source (last refresh: 2026-07-19). If a source breaks or moves, the page keeps its last good data and shows that date — it is never silently stale. Annual review is the floor; the refresh log is available on request.
The legal requirement
Public Law 119-101 (H.R. 6644, 119th Congress (21st Century ROAD to Housing Act)) became law on July 11, 2026 and requires, effective October 1, 2026:
“…the grantee maintains, on a publicly accessible website, a searchable database that identifies all parcels of undeveloped land owned by the grantee.”
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 §104(b)(7), 42 U.S.C. 5304(b), as added by Public Law 119-101 · enrolled bill text
Maintaining this database is an eligible use of CDBG funds (HCDA §105(a)(27), 42 U.S.C. 5305(a)).
This site is built and maintained by Civic Data Works, which hosts Sec. 104 public land inventories for CDBG grantees.