2nd City Zoning

This is very neat. A thing that&#x27;s a little crazymaking in all of these maps though: one of the most important things you&#x27;re looking at in a zoning map is the distinction between single-family lots (exclusively for detached houses) and multi-family lots. You have to zoom in to the single-neighborhood level to see that distinction here (between paler green and darker green), and it&#x27;s subtle.<p>It&#x27;s nowhere nearly as bad as my neighboring municipality&#x27;s zoning map, though:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oak-park.us&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;zoning&#x2F;2021-02-28-_amended-oak-park-zoning-map.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oak-park.us&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;zoning&#x2F;2021-02-2...</a><p>I&#x27;m convinced this map was colored specifically to obscure that distinction.<p>The links to zoning variance documents in the planned development (red) zones are a really nice touch!

The originally submitted title (&#x27;Chicago zoning in the style of SimCity&#x27; or words to that effect) was much more informative.

Wait, so commercial zones are supposed to be only in strips and around street, and industrial zones are not actually far away from residential? Guess I always played SC2000 wrong back in the days.

Here’s the GitHub repo [1] for those who are code-curious.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;datamade&#x2F;second-city-zoning">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;datamade&#x2F;second-city-zoning</a>

Wow this is amazing. Clicking on zones is also more informative than I expected. Massive kudos. Also, it&#x27;s nice touch to let me turn on SimCity music. Fantastic all around.

Pretty nice website of chicagos zoning<p>Fyi there’s an initiative to create a nationwide (USA) zoning map <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zoningatlas.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zoningatlas.org&#x2F;</a>

Very cool visualization! A meta comment here is that you look at the shapes of the zoning districts and they make no real sense, except that they were applied as the best fit to whatever happened to be on each lot at the time the codes was adopted. It’s sad how much our local governments main job is to try and freeze everything in place and prevent change.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gisapps.chicago.gov&#x2F;mapchicago&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gisapps.chicago.gov&#x2F;mapchicago&#x2F;</a> has more information. Your city probably also has a GIS page - just look up &quot;gis &lt;city&gt;&quot; and you will probably find it.

A Reddit post by me:<p>&gt;A Detroit News columnist playing the city-management computer game SimCity &quot;found that Godzilla attacking the city in the 1972 Detroit scenario caused less destruction than the mayoralty of Coleman Young&quot;. &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Detroit&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3r3dtl&#x2F;a_detroit_news_columnist_playing_the&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Detroit&#x2F;comments&#x2F;3r3dtl&#x2F;a_detroit_n...</a>&gt;

I&#x27;ve built something kind of similar to this for the UK which shows prices of post codes, so you can see what are the cheap &#x2F; expensive areas in a town or city.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;postcodeprices.com&#x2F;cambridgeshire&#x2F;cambridge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;postcodeprices.com&#x2F;cambridgeshire&#x2F;cambridge</a>

Where&#x27;s the Disasters menu?<p>I think I found Godzilla!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jSYNfFh24i4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=jSYNfFh24i4</a>

Search button doesn&#x27;t work for me on mobile safari. Using the find me link does, but hard to tell if the map was centered around my address or not.

&quot;the color scheme: green for residential, blue for commercial and yellow for industrial.&quot;<p>Meanwhile, a boatload of the map is red.

This is something I&#x27;ve been meaning to do with my city to show how bad residential zoning is. Kudos to whoever made this.

Jokes on us, the mayor set all of the budgets to 50% and the transportation manager was right: we regret it.

Why are all the `y`s missing from the text in Chrome but not in Safari?

wow, impressive. Colors could be better, but overall, it&#x27;s pretty informative and cool.

As a Chicagoan, i approve

Political take: even if many people would like mixed zoning in dense urban centers (with commerce at the street level, and housing above), the familiarity of zoning from games like SimCity makes mixed zoning less legible.<p>Laws mandating parking space and accessibility requirements add to the problem to make it unfixable: any relaxation (allowing mixed zoning at time t) could create future legal and social problems (not enough street parking at time t+N)