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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 | Listed as "The license for this dataset is unspecified" on the open data portal Verbal clarification from NYC DoITT staff "we consider datasets non-copywritable"; "we are working on updating the terms of use more clear about this, but it is also clearly stated in the open data law for now" |
| Available in bulk | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| In an open format | CSV | |
| findable | 4 | |
| findable_steps | I searched NYC zoning data on google; I searched "zoning" on the NYC Open Data portal; I (1) visited the DCP website, (2) clicked "data/maps", (3) clicked "open data", (4) clicked "zoning related data" | |
| licence_url | https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx? | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 3 | |
| collector_name | Department of City Planning (DCP) | |
| 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://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/data-maps/open-data. - NYC Planning Open Data page "Zoning Related Datasets", https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Housing-Development/Direc - "Directory Of Zoning Details" on NYC Open Data , https://data.cityofnewyork.us/browse?q=zoning&provenanc - "Zoning" search on NYC Open Data |
