Zoning Code Descriptions
The city's own decoder for Philadelphia zoning district codes. 39 rows pair a code such as RSA-5 with its written name, "Residential Single-Family Attached-5".
This is a lookup table with no geometry. Join new_code here to long_code in zoning_basedistricts to label a zoning map. All 29,205 district polygons match a row in this table.
The codes divide into residential (RSD, RSA, RTA, RM, RMX), commercial (CA, CMX), industrial (I, ICMX, IRMX), and special purpose (SP) families. See AGENTS.md for the join.
Source: Zoning Descriptions on OpenDataPhilly.
Spatial Coverage
- Bounding Box: [-75.2843924339013, 39.859589, -74.9554859388087, 40.137935]
Temporal Coverage
- Start: open
- End: ongoing
Schema
Files
Quick Start
STAC Metadata
- root:
../catalog.json - parent:
../catalog.json
Source
https://opendataphilly.org/datasets/zoning-descriptions/
Processing Notes
Written 2026-08-26 from the zoning_descriptions FeatureServer query endpoint using DuckDB. portolan extract arcgis reports "0/0 layers" for services that advertise a table rather than a layer, so the CLI could not carry it; see portolan-cli#812. All 39 rows were verified against the source.
Citation
City of Philadelphia (2026). Philadelphia Housing and Land Use. Retrieved from OpenDataPhilly. Mirrored on Source Cooperative at https://source.coop/nlebovits/phl-housing-demo.
Attribution
City of Philadelphia
License
Contact
Nissim Lebovits nissim.lebovits@radiant.earth
Known Issues
The table has no geometry, so it renders no map and ships no styles. It is a join partner for the zoning layers.
The table covers base district codes only. Overlay symbols live in zoning_overlays.
Generated by Portolan from STAC metadata and .portolan/metadata.yaml