Transcription of Best Practices for locating Address - San Antonio
1 Address Search- best Practices best Practices for locating Address H ow to use the online por tal (ACA) application intake form Th e P roperty Information page is divided into three (3) sections: Ad d ress, Parcels and Property Owner (* Owner information is derived f rom BCAD (Bexar Co) and may not show recent ownership changes). You don t need to enter all the criteria before clicking search. Enter only Ad d ress and click search. Wh en results are found, the Parcel and Owner associated with the Ad d ress will systematically populate. Or enter only Parcel, and again t he as s ociated Address and Property owner will systematically populate. To o much information Wh en searching for Address , the best practice is to let the system do the w o rk. Enter little information and let the system return multiple results t o choose from. Recommended to enter only t he Street Number and N am e (no d irectional). Too much information may result in 0 matches. Examples: Wh en entering La Cantera Parkway, try entering just La Cantera Wh en entering Alamo S treet, type only Alamo Wh en entering W Loop 1604 N, try entering just 1604 *The Address search in BuildSA goes through the Situs value in the Address Key from GIS.
2 Exact match Wh en entering the Street Name, the system looks for exact matches. Examples: When entering Parkway consider it may be PKWY in our GIS S y stem. Wh en entering Saint Mary s consider St. Mary s. Wh en entering I-35, consider IH 35 Ad d resses with bu ildings, unit, suites o r levels Currently, our GIS system doesn t contain this information for searching. I f you have an Address with buildings, unit, suites or levels enter the in formation prior to clicking Search and the system will simply leave t h e value populated. Still can t find the ad d ress? Go t o our One Stop Zoning Map (Hyperlink available on the application in t ake form (ACA) Property Page. O therwise go to h t ). U s e this to locate your Address . O nce found in our One Stop Map, then cap ture the City Parcel number and return to the application intake fo rm (ACA) Property Page and s imply s earch u sing the City Parcel n u mber. P arcel populated but ad d ress missing S o me Parcels have not h ad t he actual Address assigned and therefore m ay not return this information.
3 Submission of the Application in Bu ildSA only requires the Parcel.