Zoning Districts


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

WHAT ARE ZONING DISTRICTS FOR?


Policy Research · City and Regional Planning

Statistical Analysis · Site Selection


Get fine-grained regulatory information, district by district.

Our Zoning Districts offer GIS layers that reveal a significant amount of regulatory information the way individual districts regulate for uses, structures, and lots, with optional corresponding geospatial files. We use our 100,000+ analyzed zoning districts as the basis for all of our products, using our triple-vetted approach for collecting accurate, comprehensive information.

    • 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 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

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

    • Spatial join to your parcels (optional)

Choosing between Zoning Districts and Zoning Slices?

Zoning Districts reveal how different districts regulate. Zoning Slices reveal how different places are regulated and show the “end result” of the overlapping district rules. The sample GeoJSONs linked below include Zoning Districts and Zoning Slices for Agoura Hills, California.

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