# Van Buren ARDOT Flock Permits 1866 and 1876 `ARDOT Flock Permit Paperwork.pdf` is a 30-page packet for three Flock LPR locations in Van Buren. Permit 1866 covers Main Street at 8th Street; Permit 1876 covers Highway 59 South at River Road and Highway 162 at 46th Street. The packet supplies device-level plan coordinates for the latter two sites and crosswalks all three to previously unclassified rows in ARDOT's statewide GIS export. ## Permit 1866 - Main Street at 8th Street Permit 1866 was issued 2025-04-09 and authorizes: > `"Installation of ALPR: Hwy 59, Sec 113, LM 0.019."` (`ARDOT Flock Permit Paperwork.pdf`, p. 27.) Mayor [[Joe Hurst]]'s March 27 request identifies the location as: > `"Main Street @ 8th Street"` (`ARDOT Flock Permit Paperwork.pdf`, p. 30.) The packet does not supply a device-level plan coordinate for this site. ARDOT's separate `TrafficControlDevices.csv` line 163 carries Permit `P1866`, Van Buren, Route 59, Section 113, log mile 0.019, at the exact normalized coordinate `35.436886000000001, -94.352564000000001`. The permit/location fields provide the independent camera crosswalk that the export row previously lacked. ## Permit 1876 - Highway 59 and Highway 162 Permit 1876 was issued 2025-05-14 for: - Highway 59, Section 6, log mile 2.593. - Highway 162, Section 1, log mile 1.595. (`ARDOT Flock Permit Paperwork.pdf`, p. 4, `"PERMIT NO: 1876 Date Issued: 5/14/2025"` and the route/section/log-mile table.) The May 19 special-permit letter says the submitted plans cover `"the installation of (2) new license plate reader cameras"` and incorporates Permit 1876 into Special Permit `SP-04-2025-0027` (`ARDOT Flock Permit Paperwork.pdf`, p. 1). The Flock location-data sheet gives two exact plan values: | Device | Produced location and direction | Exact plan coordinate | |---|---|---| | `F#007` | `Hwy 59 S @ River Rd NB` | `35.4031307965211, -94.3299513281102` | | `F#008` | `Hwy 162 @ 46th St WB` | `35.4360124860383, -94.3094901531031` | (`ARDOT Flock Permit Paperwork.pdf`, p. 17, `LOCATION DATA` table; coordinates transcribed from the rendered source page.) ARDOT's statewide export carries the matching permit-stage GIS values: | CSV line | Permit/location fields | Exact GIS coordinate | |---:|---|---| | 194 | `P1876`; Route 59; Section 6; LM 2.593; Van Buren | `35.403126999999998, -94.329955999999996` | | 195 | `P1876`; Route 162; Section 1; LM 1.595; Van Buren | `35.436003999999997, -94.308516999999995` | (`TrafficControlDevices.csv`, lines 194-195.) ## Coordinate treatment The evidence register retains five records from this crosswalk: - Three ARDOT GIS/export rows, one for each permitted location. - Two separate final-engineering-plan records for `F#007` and `F#008`. The plan and GIS values are not averaged or silently merged. Permit and plan records authorize and locate proposed work; they do not establish as-built placement, final inspection, continuous operation, or current status. ## Significance Before this production, the ARDOT export's Van Buren rows carried permit and city fields but no ALPR, camera, or Flock marker. The police packet supplies the missing permit-to-device relationship. This is why lines 163, 194, and 195 now qualify for [[Statewide Traffic Control Devices Export]] and [[Arkansas Camera Map Data]]. ## Open questions - Completion, inspection, acceptance, as-built, energization, activation, relocation, and present-status records for all three sites. - A device-level crosswalk for Main Street at 8th Street. - Whether the plan-sheet and GIS differences are design-versus-field offsets or reflect later movement. - The complete permit record for any other Van Buren Flock camera in state right-of-way.