Approved Building Permits

The Boston Archive

Dataset

Approved Building Permits

Building permits help to establish compliance of construction work with the minimum standards of safety established by the State Building Code to ensure public health and safety for everyone. A building permit is required before beginning most construction, demolition, modification and repair…

Dataset

Publisher: Inspectional Services Department
Spatial coverage: all
Fields: 24
Keywords: addition, alt, alteration, av, ave, avenue, awning, bl, blvd, boulevard, build, building, certificate, chgocc, ci, city of boston, cob, construction, coo, demolition, demolitions, electrical, erect, ert, extdem, exterior, extren, fa, fast track, fire alarm, fsttrk, gas, insul, insulation, intdem, interior, intext, intren, isd, legacy portal, long form, lvolt, occupancy, permits, pl, plumbing, raze, rd, removal, renovation, road, roof, service change, sf, short form, side, siding, sol, solar panel, srvchg, st, street, voltage
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/approved-building-permits

Artifacts

“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.

Format	Preservation	Size	Digest	Source
CSV	unavailable	—	`—`	source
PDF	preserved	122581	`0d97a1a8e6063fa9a9ca80b224a1fc0544a496d2948171951577e00416873502`	source

Column dictionary

The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.

Column	Type	Description
`permitnumber`	text
`worktype`	text
`permittypedescr`	text
`description`	text
`comments`	text
`applicant`	text
`declared_valuation`	text
`total_fees`	text
`issued_date`	timestamp
`expiration_date`	timestamp
`status`	text
`occupancytype`	text
`sq_feet`	numeric
`address`	text
`city`	text
`state`	text
`zip`	text
`ward`	numeric
`property_id`	numeric
`parcel_id`	numeric
`gpsy`	numeric
`gpsx`	numeric
`y_latitude`	numeric
`x_longitude`	numeric

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/8279a0069884a0ebb8358a38719e0400/approved-building-permits-columns.json — 1769 bytes, SHA-256 8279a0069884a0eb…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

Who publishes Approved Building Permits, and under what license?

Inspectional Services Department publishes it. The archive accessioned it under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain), and holds the publisher's own column dictionary verbatim rather than reworded into the archive's vocabulary — how a publisher names a column is evidence about the publisher.