Zoning 78% open

Pittsburgh, PA

What data is expected?

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)

  • 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)

How open is the data?

All answers

Question Answer Comment
Openly licensed No no license specified
Available in bulk Yes
Up-to-date Yes as far as I know
Available free online Yes
Available free of charge Yes
In an open format CSV, GeoJSON, KML, SHP
findable 4
findable_steps keyword search "zoning" in WPRDC
Collected by government Yes
usability 3
collector_name City of Pittsburgh Dept of Planning
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 href="https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/pittsburgh-zoning-districts" https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/pittsburgh-zoning-distri">rel="nofollow">https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/pittsburgh-zoning-distri - WPRDC Zoning Districts dataset, href="https://pghgis-pittsburghpa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/4d0adfc893d24a029a947f449c3ac45a_0" https://pghgis-pittsburghpa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets">rel="nofollow">https://pghgis-pittsburghpa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets - City of Pittsburgh GIS

Meta data

Data location   https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/pittsburgh-zoning-distri - WPRDC Zoning Districts dataset
   https://pghgis-pittsburghpa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets - City of Pittsburgh GIS
Data licence   Unknown
Data format   CSV, GeoJSON, KML, SHP
Reviewer   Steven Saylor
Submitters   Steven Saylor
Last modified   Fri Feb 02 2018 16:52:44 GMT+0000 (UTC)