The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Boston Zoning Subdistricts

This layer represents City of Boston Zoning Subdistrict boundaries indicating geographic areas subject to specific zoning…

Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
Boston, Massachusetts
Fields
32
Keywords
code, planning, subdistricts, zoning
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/boston-zoning-subdistricts

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
CSVpreserved5967129bb35ccc31cacb6573fc36ede20ffb5b914b9b31f43a4f163357328800338d5bsource
GeoJSONpreserved80640612c5b64b196c291570633045c704b76aee0bc62007dde8f1390cab304139b26basource
HTMLreferenced——source
KMLpreserved17844199df27b3895189fb42d634a29d25f8a9f4467ed0482ba58e0d33cc7c2968836a6source
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
Zoning_Subdistricttext
Zoning_Districttext
Articletext
Map_Numbertext
Subdistrict_Typetext
Subdistrict_Usetext
Unique_Codetext
Condition_Numbertext
Condition_Texttext
Additional_Restrictions_or_Foottext
Municode_Reference_to_Restrictitext
Max_FARtext
Max_Heighttext
Front_Setbacktext
Side_Setbacktext
Rear_Setbacktext
Max_Dwelling_Units_Per_Areatext
Max_Number_of_Floorstext
Dwelling_Units_Factortext
Amendment_Numbertext
Latest_Amendment_Effective_Datetext
Color_Hex_Codetext
Urban_CustomIDtext
Urban_Nametext
Commentstext
created_usertext
created_datetext
last_edited_usertext
last_edited_datetext
Shape_Lengthtext
Shape_Areatext
shape_wkttext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/d7c71b25fd031e951f831447b7ec3876/boston-zoning-subdistricts-columns.json — 2332 bytes, SHA-256 d7c71b25fd031e95…, 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 Boston Zoning Subdistricts, 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 Boston Zoning Subdistricts 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 Boston Zoning Subdistricts?

32 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 Boston Zoning Subdistricts?

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 Boston Zoning Subdistricts, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Boston Zoning Subdistricts 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:boston-zoning-subdistricts
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/boston-zoning-subdistricts
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/boston-zoning-subdistricts.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
boston-zoning-subdistricts
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 32-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/d7c71b25fd031e951f831447b7ec3876/boston-zoning-subdistricts-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