Creating new parcels from multiple existing parcels

This topic applies to ArcGIS for Desktop Standard and ArcGIS for Desktop Advanced only.

You can select and create new parcels from the selection of multiple existing parcels using the Construct From Parent command. Selected parcels must be adjacent. An example of creating new parcels from a selection of multiple parcels would be the creation of an easement parcel that would overlay a row of parcels.

Steps:

To split multiple parcels using the Construct From Parent command, follow these steps:
1. In an edit session in ArcMap , click the Select Parcel Features tool on the Parcel Editor toolbar and select the adjacent parcels you want to subdivide.
2. Right-click the selected parcels and click Construct From Parent.

The parcels are opened in the map and the Construction grid on the Parcel Details dialog box becomes available.

3. To list the parent parcel lines in the Construction grid, click Show selectable parent lines.
You would want to display parent lines in the construction grid so that you can select these lines and flag them as unbuildable. When lines are flagged as unbuildable, they are not used to build new parcels. If you are creating new parcels from multiple existing parcels, you typically do not want parent lines to be used to build parcels. Parent lines are not editable in the construction grid.
4. Enter the construction lines to split the parcels.
Construction lines are entered below parent lines in the Construction grid.
Before building parcels, flag the lines that you do not want to be used to build parcels as unbuildable. Lines that intersect without intersection points need to be planarized. To planarize construction lines, click Planarize Lines on the Parcel Details dialog box.
5. In the map or in the Construction grid, right-click the lines that you do not want to be used to build parcels and click Un-buildable.
To flag parent parcel lines as unbuildable, choose Show selectable parent lines on the Construction grid on the Parcel Details dialog box. Right-click the parent lines in the grid or in the map and click Un-buildable.
Tip:

You can also use the Select parcel features tool to drag a box and select multiple lines to be flagged as unbuildable.


6. To build parcels, click the Build parcels and save into map tool drop-down arrow and click one of the following choices:
   • Build and mark Historic to build the new subdivision parcels and flag the parent parcel as historic.
   • Build and keep all current to build the new subdivision parcels and keep the parent parcel current.
The new parcels are saved back to the parcel fabric layer or open fabric job.