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 |
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 |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:approved-building-permits-2
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/approved-building-permits-2
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/approved-building-permits-2.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- approved-building-permits
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |