New York rezonings
Every zoning map amendment the City has adopted since 1977, read from the Department of City Planning's record, mapped as the area each one rezoned, and searchable by district, borough, direction and year.
What the record will hold
- The area each amendment rezoned, as the Department drew it, not a pin. A rezoning here runs from a block face to a neighbourhood plan of thousands of lots.
- The zoning district before and after, read from the City Planning Commission's report on each application, the way Chicago's are read from the ordinance.
- The application number, the Commission's report, the Council's action and the date the amendment took effect.
- Applications the Commission or the Council disapproved and applications withdrawn or terminated, each marked by its status, which a record of adopted amendments alone cannot show.
- The map, text and special-permit actions that belong to one project, grouped under its name.
- A direction for each change, up, down or lateral, on the Zoning Resolution's floor area ratio, with a table dated to the rewrites the Resolution has had.
New York adopts a few dozen map amendments a year, far fewer than Chicago's lot-by-lot reclassifications, and each one covers an area, so this record is read by the block and the neighbourhood rather than the address.
The Department of City Planning's Zoning Application Portal data and its layer of adopted zoning map amendments on NYC Open Data, the City Planning Commission's reports, and the Zoning Resolution for the districts. The City's open data law makes its datasets available without licence restriction beyond naming the source, the version and the modifications made, which the record does. The published record will be licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 with the Department credited as the source; the Commission's reports are quoted and linked, not republished.