Zoning Districts

Zoning Districts reveal how zoning works in unprecedented detail. This premier product offers customized regulatory information built to meet your needs.

WHAT ARE ZONING DISTRICTS FOR?

Due Diligence · City and Regional Planning

Policy Analysis · Comparative Research · Site Selection

Get fine-grained zoning details.

Our Zoning Districts reveal a customized amount of information about individual districts, with optional corresponding geospatial files.

    • Jurisdictions

    • Counties

    • Core-Based Statistical Areas (i.e., metropolitan and micropolitan areas)

    • States

    • Zoning district(s) including base and any overlay district(s)

  • It’s up to you! Zoning Districts can include all of our data about a district’s:

    • Basic properties, such as its mapped status

    • Residential use permissions (for 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4+-family housing, and accessory dwelling units)

    • Most common nonresidential use(s) permitted

    • Lot development requirements, including

      • minimum lot sizes

      • lot coverage

      • setbacks

    • Building development requirements, including

      • maximum height

      • floor-to-area ratio

    • Treatment of specialized housing types, including

      • accessory dwelling units

      • affordable housing

      • planned residential developments

    • CSV

    • GeoPackage, GeoJSON, or Geodatabase (with geospatial add-on)

Zoning Districts are delivered through a CSV at three pricing tiers:

  • Tier 1: Basic data about zoning rules.

  • Tier 2: Tier 1 plus more specific information about rules relevant to 1-family, 2-family, 3-family, and 4+-family residential uses.

  • Tier 3: Tier 1 plus more specific information about rules relevant to accessory dwelling units, affordable housing, and planned residential developments.

As an additional option, Zoning Districts can include a corresponding geospatial file.

The CSV linked below provides a sample of Tier 2 product for 4 districts in Newport News, Virginia.

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Data Interpretations & Dictionary

All of the terms used in Zoning Districts are defined in our glossary or our abbreviations.

In addition, this data dictionary lists each field use in the Zoning Districts and includes the field’s format (numeric, integer, logical, character, or date), descriptive name, data example, description, and recommended denominators.

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