Dataset
Zoning Board of Appeal Tracker
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Dataset
- Publisher
- Inspectional Services Department
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 19
- Keywords
- appeal, board of appeal, construction, development, housing, inspectional services, permit, permitting, planning, zoning
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/zoning-board-of-appeal-tracker
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 | referenced | 6254264 | 5c8389edd06bab3ba5474b6cc1bd81c98269228fe53068ff1fe34ba806911a3e | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| referenced | 54375 | 4595e22d4ce93189724dfddaecfc43d0c93244694da8702921f1e3e833d10dda | 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 |
|---|---|---|
address | text | |
status | text | |
parent_apno | text | |
boa_apno | text | |
appeal_type | text | |
contact | text | |
submitted_date | text | |
received_date | text | |
hearing_date | text | |
ever_deferred | text | |
num_deferrals | text | |
final_decision_date | text | |
decision | text | |
closed_date | text | |
city | text | |
zip | text | |
ward | text | |
zoning_district | text | |
project_description | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:zoning-board-of-appeal-tracker
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/zoning-board-of-appeal-tracker
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/zoning-board-of-appeal-tracker.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
- zoning-board-of-appeal-tracker
- 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 |