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Land use zone boundaries and zoning categories for parcels contained. Zoning ordinances typically regulate land use and building dimension for built improvements made on all properties within a city’s borders. As such, zoning impacts many aspects of our communities and daily lives — from the location of your local supermarket (and what you can purchase there) to the size and height of your home.
Having access to the mapped zones (GIS shapefiles or GeoJSON files) of designated permitted land uses in your city can help empower a better understanding of the forces shaping your community. Alternatively, the data might be provided in tabular format with an attribute giving location, such as a parcel ID. Either way, descriptions of allowed uses for each zone must be publicly available, often in a separate zoning regulations document. (More info)
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licensed | Yes | |
| Available in bulk | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | Zoning layers may be up to 2 months behind current zoning. citizens can request zoning verification / compliance letters through the City's Planning Department at https://coloradosprings.gov/planning-and-development. |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| In an open format | CSV, GeoJSON, JSON, KML, KMZ, SHP | |
| findable | 4 | |
| findable_steps | data.coloradosprings.gov > searched "Zoning" | |
| licence_url | https://coloradosprings.gov/office-innovation-and-susta | License The City of Colorado Springs grants you a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, modify, and distribute the datasets in all current and future media and formats for any lawful purpose. The City of Colorado Springs provides open data licensed under the Creative Commons CC Zero (link is external) license (CC0 1.0). The full legal code (link is external) explains your rights and responsibilities. Attribution You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the data without attribution as long as you clearly indicate the license terms of this work (CC0 1.0 (link is external)). When using or citing the data sets provided herein, you may not imply endorsement by the City of Colorado Springs. Disclaimer The City of Colorado Springs makes no warranties about the data sets, and disclaims liability for all uses of the data sets, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. |
| Collected by government | Yes | Zoning is established by the Planning Commission and City Council, per Chapter 7, Article 3 of the Colorado Springs City Code (https://coloradosprings.gov/citycode) Zoning layers may be up to 2 months behind current zoning. citizens can request zoning verification / compliance letters through the City's Planning Department at https://coloradosprings.gov/planning-and-development. The data contained herein is an actively updated layer pending approval of zone change applications from the City of Colorado Springs Planning Commission and City Council. Data set includes base zoning only as established through the zone change ordinances and does not include applicable overlays that may also apply to property. Metadata includes the zoning district type and file number & ordinance if available. Alternate map with the same data is available from the "Springsview" map at https://coloradosprings.gov/springsview |
| usability | 3 | |
| collector_name | City of Colorado Springs Land Use Review | Zoning is established by the Planning Commission and City Council, per Chapter 7, Article 3 of the Colorado Springs City Code (https://coloradosprings.gov/citycode) Zoning layers may be up to 2 months behind current zoning. citizens can request zoning verification / compliance letters through the City's Planning Department at https://coloradosprings.gov/planning-and-development. The data contained herein is an actively updated layer pending approval of zone change applications from the City of Colorado Springs Planning Commission and City Council. Data set includes base zoning only as established through the zone change ordinances and does not include applicable overlays that may also apply to property. Metadata includes the zoning district type and file number & ordinance if available. Alternate map with the same data is available from the "Springsview" map at https://coloradosprings.gov/springsview |
| characteristics | Zone location — the data should be either (1) a GIS shapefile or GeoJSON, or (2) a table with parcel IDs or addresses, Zone name/type (with accompanying descriptions of allowed uses in each zone) | |
| location | https://data.coloradosprings.gov/Government/Land-Use-Zo - OpenDataCOS |
