# Town Parcel and Managed-Asset Coverage — August 13, 2026 Checkpoint

## What this layer establishes

The checkpoint contains several related but different property records:

- `gis_parcel` contains 220 canonical GIS-parcel identities.
- `gis_card_parcel` contains 197 FY2026 source parcel-card records in the reviewed municipal-property inventory.
- 174 of those parcel cards have a row labeled as the current owner.
- 171 parcels meet the report's exact current Town-owner control: current owner `TOWN OF WILBRAHAM`, public-owner indicator `Y`, and provisional owner classification `MUNICIPAL`.
- Three parcel cards have a current ownership row naming a different owner.
- Twenty-three parcel cards have no current ownership row loaded.

The report therefore presents 171 ownership-controlled Town parcels and separately preserves the 26 excluded parcel cards. It does not describe all 197 loaded parcel cards as Town-owned.

## Parcel, asset, and building are different records

The model introduced by migration 0003 separates the underlying land record from the public-purpose identity and the physical structure:

- A **parcel** is mapped and assessed land. It is not automatically a legal lot, a developable site, or property available for disposition.
- A **managed asset** is a curated facility, park, recreation property, or reference property that can be evaluated as a decision and management unit. One asset may span more than one parcel.
- A **building** is a physical structure with its own identity, condition, use, and lifecycle questions. A parcel may have no building or more than one structure.

The current renamed core tables contain 22 managed-asset identities, 23 asset-to-parcel links, and 30 building identities. The managed-asset registry is intentionally smaller than the parcel inventory; absence from that registry is not evidence that a parcel lacks present or future public value.

## Source composition of the 171 controlled parcels

- 159 carry the source-derived parcel-status label `VACANT`.
- Nine carry `IMPROVEMENTS_REPORTED`.
- Three carry `IMPROVED`.
- 122 carry state-use code `903Z`; 49 carry `903V`.
- The source-reported acreage mechanically sums to 2,027.888 acres.
- The FY2026 assessment records mechanically sum to $24,059,300 of total assessed value and the same $24,059,300 of exempt value.

These are source-card classifications and arithmetic controls. They are not independent legal, survey, appraisal, engineering, environmental, historic, utilization, or disposition findings.

## Required interpretation boundaries

- **“Vacant” does not mean unused, unnecessary, developable, unrestricted, surplus, or available for sale.** The label reports the improvement condition carried by the source record. It does not resolve present public use, access, habitat, drainage, conservation, recreation, historic context, deed or gift restrictions, Article 97 status, utilities, environmental conditions, or future need.
- **Reported acreage is not surveyed or developable acreage.** The 2,027.888-acre sum is a mechanical total of the loaded source fields. It should not be used for engineering, valuation, or disposition without parcel-level verification.
- **Assessed value is not market or public value.** The $24,059,300 total is not expected sale proceeds, replacement cost, insurance value, full lifecycle cost, or the value of a property's service, historic, environmental, civic, or community role.
- **Ownership names are not a title opinion.** The current-owner control is appropriate for inventory reporting, but a decision requires deed and title review, legal parcel reconciliation, easements, restrictions, votes, and authority.
- **Parcel counts are not additive across layers.** The 220 GIS identities, 197 parcel cards, 171 ownership-controlled Town parcels, 22 managed assets, 23 asset links, and 30 buildings answer different questions.

## Evidence required before a parcel or asset decision

For a proposed retention, reuse, lease, protection, improvement, transfer, or sale, assemble a parcel-level decision packet that answers:

1. What does the Town legally own and control? Include current title, deed, legal parcel, easements, restrictions, gift or trust terms, Article 97 or other protected status, relevant votes, and decision authority.
2. What public purpose does the property serve now, including uses that are informal, seasonal, environmental, civic, historic, or shared with another site?
3. What land, buildings, systems, access, utilities, condition, hazards, deferred maintenance, and code needs exist?
4. What are the full recurring and one-time costs under each credible option—not only the sale price, construction price, or a single budget account?
5. What alternatives were considered, including continued use, repair, adaptive reuse, shared use, lease, protection, acquisition of a different site, or no action?
6. What do residents, services, historic character, environmental function, community identity, and future flexibility gain or lose under each option?
7. Who decides, who implements, what public process is required, and how will results and later costs be reported?

This packet turns the inventory into decision evidence without treating a source label as the decision itself.

## Preserved extracts

- `parcel_control.csv` — one-row count, acreage, assessment, and registry control.
- `parcel_town_owned_current.csv` — all 171 parcel records meeting the exact current Town-owner control.
- `parcel_ownership_reconciliation.csv` — the three different-current-owner rows and 23 rows lacking current ownership evidence.
- `parcel_status_summary.csv` — source status and state-use-code composition.
- `parcel_managed_asset_registry.csv` — curated managed assets and parcel links.
- `parcel_gis_card_parcel.csv`, `parcel_gis_card_ownership.csv`, and `parcel_gis_card_valuation.csv` — broader source extracts retained for audit and further reconciliation.

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