This illustrates federally-designated Opportunity Zones in Saint Paul and Ramsey County.
<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>This illustrates federally-designated Opportunity Zones in Saint Paul and Ramsey County. Opportunity Zones are an economic and community development program established by Congress in the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 to provide investors with a shelter from tax liability while encouraging investment in lower-income communities nationwide. Designation is made at the Census Tract level. </SPAN><SPAN /><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>In February of 2018, the federal government asked states to recommend a percentage of their eligible census tracts to become Opportunity Zones. In Minnesota, the Governor and Department of Employment and Ecnomic Development asked counties and cities of the first class (including Saint Paul) to recommend Census Tracts for inclusion in the Opportunity Zone Program. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>In the Spring of 2018, the Governor recommended, and US Treasury certified Opportunity Zones in nineteen Census Tracts in Ramsey County, including one in Roseville and and eighteen within the City of Saint Paul.</SPAN><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">Attributes (Fields) Defined:</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:1 1 1 20;"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">STATEFP</SPAN><SPAN>: A code for the state in which census geography is located. Minnesota is 27.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:1 1 1 20;"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">COUNTYFP</SPAN><SPAN>: A code for the county in which census geography is located.</SPAN><SPAN /><SPAN /></P><P STYLE="margin:1 1 1 20;"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">TRACTCE</SPAN><SPAN>: A code for the tract in which census geography is.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:1 1 1 20;"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">GEOID: </SPAN><SPAN>A nationally-unique identifier for each census tract.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:1 1 1 20;"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">NAME</SPAN><SPAN>: The human-readable number of the local census tract.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:1 1 1 20;"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">NAMELSAD</SPAN><SPAN>: A more fully-formed human readable name for the local census tract.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">Time Period of Content Date:</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:1 1 1 20;"><SPAN>09//27/2018</SPAN></P><P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">Currentness Reference: </SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:1 1 1 20;"><SPAN><SPAN>Time Period of Content date indicates the date which the user can be confident of accuracy and completeness of the data.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">Maintenance and Update Frequency: </SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:1 1 1 20;"><SPAN>This data is not expected to require any updates. As of this writing, the benefits of Opportunity Zones are of limited duration. Barring additional federal legislation, once designated, Opportunity Zone designations cannot be changed or eliminated.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">Coordinate System:</SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:1 1 1 20;"><SPAN><SPAN>This data is projected in a custom local coordinate system known as "NAD_1983_86_Adj_MN_Ramsey_Feet". As an early adopter of GIS, many local governments in Minnesota developed their own coordinate systems. As a legacy, users of this data need a custom coordinate transformation in order to change the data to a commonly-available coordinate system. Users may </SPAN></SPAN><A href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ieso8ppp7euqf0e/Saint%20Paul%20Custom%20ArcGIS%20Coordinate%20System%20Transformations.zip?dl=0"><SPAN><SPAN>download custom coordinate transformations </SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN><SPAN>for use in ArcMap. One of the transformations will convert this data to NAD 1983 UTM Zone 15N, the dominant common coordinate system in the Minneapolis Saint Paul metro. Users of other GIS mapping systems may contact us as described elsewhere on this page in order to obtain data converted to a commonly-available coordinate system.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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