Abstract
Reinventing 1961 New York City Zoning
Track: Urban and Regional Planning
Authors: Chris Rado, Uttam Bera
The New York City zoning map in its current form was established in 1961. Over the years, this map has been altered by more than 2000 individual zoning map changes; evolving as the city itself has changed. On the 50th anniversary of the original zoning map, we have begun a project to recreate the original 1961 zoning in GIS. The ultimate goal of this work is to create a continuous zoning dataset that can be rolled back to any date between today and December 1961. When completed, this "living dataset will be available to the department's planners for research and analysis and eventually incorporated into our public-facing web application. This presentation will describe our methodology, our experiences editing a versioned, archived geodatabase, and the current state of the project.