Enhanced Zoning Decisions

Enhance Boston Zoning decisions with structure and additional data

TODO

• Refactor: Add code comments
• Manually convert old minutes ☹️
• Bug: Fix BOA-678322
• Feature: clean by implementing html_entity_decode
• Refactor: lookup-applicants should skip existing and auto generate the list
• New property: Link to Boston City TV (https://www.youtube.com/user/BostonCable/search?query=zoning) and (https://www.cityofboston.gov/cable/video_library.asp)
• Build: List the results of parsing successfes/failure / test cases!
• Build: Pass build directory to build script
• Build: Store into database
• Build: Error checking!
• Feature: Join to property history
• Note about next update
• Use #hash link methodology
• Write "About"
• Build script
• Finish downloads
• New property: parse articles
• Normalize types (extension/EXTENSION etc)
• Fix addresses with commas
• New field: normalized applicants (remove ", Esq" etc)
• Do decisions full outer join minutes No, they are the same
• Refactor: specialCases to lookup-cases.json
• Full address (ward to zip, ward to neighborhood, zip to neighborhood) Must have meant for easier Maps searching
• New property: Link to minutes we should construct this from the hearing date
• CRON to check for updates
• Feature: Finish lookup-variances.json
• Bug: check for deferral in the discussion

Web UI

• Deeplink to parcel viewer
• Deeplink to minutes
• UI: navbar
• UI: change to panels
• Filter by type (e.g. show all extensions)
• "Views" functionality with filtering and such
• Add search
• Add (chain) icon for deeplinking
• "View on the web"

Decisions Refresh Process

cd cache && rm zoning-board-appeal-decisions && wget 'https://www.boston.gov/departments/inspectional-services/zoning-board-appeal-decisions'
php build.php
scp -P 4452 dist/decesions_* taylorwe@taylorwebdesignshost.com:~/www/nattaylor.com/eastboston/boston-zoning
vi ~/www/nattaylor.com/.htaccess