Merging parcels in the parcel fabric

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

New parcels can be created from merging parcels in the parcel fabric. Adjacent parcels can be merged to create a single, bigger parcel, and disjoint parcels or parcels that are not adjacent can be merged to create multipart parcels.

When using the parcel fabric merge tool, you can choose to copy attribute values from one of the existing parcels being merged use the attributes from a specified feature template.

When merging adjacent parcels, the original lines of the parent parcels will still be visible if your fabric is set to Show all parcels under the History tab of the parcel fabric Layer Properties dialog box. To not display historic parcels, choose Show a view of the fabric parcels.

You can also choose to display all existing parcels but define a historic line feature template for historic lines when merging parcels: Choose Show all parcels under the History tab of the parcel fabric Layer Properties dialog box then choose Update overlay lines on parent parcels on the Merge dialog box and click Template to choose the historic line template.

Historic overlay lines for merged parcels

To set a historic line feature template on the Merge dialog box , you will need to display parcels lines by their type. Parcel line types should include a historic line type. To display parcels lines by their type, open the Layer Propertiesdialog box for parcel lines (right-click the lines sublayer in the TOC and click Properties.) Choose Type for the Value Field drop-down box under the Symbology tab. If you have not defined a historic line type, click Add Values to add a value that represents a historic line type.

Symbolizing parcel lines by line type

Once you have displayed and symbolized your parcel lines by their line type, you can then create feature templates for the symbolized parcel lines.

Note:

When merging parcels, you can either leave the merge Tolerance as the default tolerance or specify your own tolerance. New points created by the merge that lie closer to existing points than the tolerance specified will not be created and existing points will be used instead.

Steps:

To merge parcels in the fabric, follow these steps:
1. In an edit session in ArcMap, click the Select Parcel Features tool on the Parcel Editor menu, select the parcels that you want to merge, right-click, then click Merge.
You can merge two or more adjacent parcels. If selected parcels are not adjacent, multipart parcels are created.
2. On the Merge dialog box, type a parcel name in the Parcel name text box.
If you leave the parcel name blank, a default parcel name of NewParcelxx is used.
3. For the newly merged parcel, choose whether to copy attributes from one of the existing parcels or use attributes from parcels feature template.
4. Click the Update overlay lines on parent parcels option to specify a line feature template for the historic lines of the original parcels.
5. Click OK to create the new parcel.