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Code Across Challenges: Land Use

jmkerns00 edited this page Feb 22, 2014 · 3 revisions

Land Use

##Scope

  • Land use data is used by the NYC Department of City Planning to analyze neighborhoods to recommend zoning changes and taxes breaks for projects that promote the health of the neighborhood.

What has changed recently?

  • The ACRIS and PLUTO datasets have recently been made freely available by the NYC Department of City Planning. They were previously

What is the specific issue at hand?

  • The ACRIS and PLUTO datasets contain a ton of info about the city’s land plots and buildings. However, the datasets have also been found to contain a number of errors. The meanings of some fields are opaque and hard to decipher for people unfamiliar with urban planning. Finally,

Sample Challenges

  • Create maps that detail the retail, industrial, and residential uses in a neighborhood.
  • Develop tools to identify abusive landlords/companies and connect it to permit application data.
  • Create a way to integrate more land data with real estate listing sites to inform homebuyers.
  • Build tools to evaluate environmental issues in different city neighborhoods.
  • Build tools to help visualize tax incentives given for different land use programs and provide a way for community members to rate compliance.

Data

BetaNYC Land Use data wiki

Examples of Successful Projects