The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Article 80 Development Projects (website)

Development projects subject to Article 80 review process. Find more information inside each project, including renderings, details, associated files, and contact information at <a href='https://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects' target='_blank'…

Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
Boston, Massachusetts
Fields
25
Keywords
App Dependency, art80, article 80, automated, bpda, development, planning department, projects, salesforce
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/article80-development-projects

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.

FormatPreservationSizeDigestSource
ArcGIS GeoServices REST APIreferenced——source
CSVpreserved7557905aaca53a007ddb47d9e6c4fd708194387d88dc18a9bb574f1dbc9b7c9d0aa116source
GeoJSONpreserved1353333d5ef2517e90f898fa1e4580b7bb6bcdd1ba0750781e2945825d360d00cf25218source
HTMLreferenced——source
KMLpreserved31313770c1a1f9960e2527909a666000d49a03ac576a624314a7f4bb43b2094b8e3f84source
SHPreferenced——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.

ColumnTypeDescription
project_idtext
project__project_nametext
project_street_numbertext
project_street_nametext
project_street_suffixtext
neighborhoodtext
project_zip_codetext
project_statustext
project__record_typetext
display_on_webtext
popstext
last_filed_datetext
last_board_approved_datetext
project_usestext
total_residential_unitstext
gross_square_footagetext
total_development_costtext
sam_idstext
descriptiontext
website_urltext
longitudetext
latitudetext
shape_wkttext
POINT_Xtext
POINT_Ytext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/fea8366d6fd841b7e2a1bc66b147ac74/article80-development-projects-columns.json — 1925 bytes, SHA-256 fea8366d6fd841b7…, 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 Article 80 Development Projects (website), and under what license?

Boston Maps 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.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does Article 80 Development Projects (website) cover?

In space, Boston, Massachusetts.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

How large is Article 80 Development Projects (website)?

25 columns, as the publisher's own catalog reports them.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Can the archive hand back the bytes of Article 80 Development Projects (website)?

Yes, for 3 of 6 distributions. Each preserved artifact is served at its own address with the digest recorded at retrieval emitted in an x-archive-sha256 header, and is handed over as an attachment: preserved material is evidence, not content, and is never rendered on this origin.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does the archive hold for Article 80 Development Projects (website), and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Article 80 Development Projects (website) from City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain). 3 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to City of Boston.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:dataset:article80-development-projects
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/article80-development-projects
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/article80-development-projects.json
Version
2 · last changed 13 September 2026

Provenance

Source
City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
License
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
article80-development-projects
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpointarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizemapped the portal's catalog fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatimarchive-ingest 0.1.0
3externalize-column-dictionaryThe publisher's 25-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/fea8366d6fd841b7e2a1bc66b147ac74/article80-development-projects-columns.json, served verbatim with its own digest. The record's stored field schema is unchanged; the graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.archive-ingest 0.1.0