City zoning districts and classifications with ordinance #s, as well as annotation.
Purpose:
The areal extent of the various zoning districts is defined by this coverage.
Supplemental_Information:
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Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 20000510
Currentness_Reference: publication date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -75.284081
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -74.954057
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 40.143701
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 39.861859
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: City of Philadelphia
Theme_Keyword: zoning
Theme_Keyword: residential
Theme_Keyword: commercial
Theme_Keyword: office commercial
Theme_Keyword: neighborhood shopping
Theme_Keyword: neighborhood shopping center district
Theme_Keyword: area shopping
Theme_Keyword: area shopping center district
Theme_Keyword: limited industrial
Theme_Keyword: general industrial
Theme_Keyword: least restricted industrial
Theme_Keyword: port industrial
Theme_Keyword: food distribution center district
Theme_Keyword: sports stadium
Theme_Keyword: institutional development district
Theme_Keyword: trailer park district
Theme_Keyword: recreational
Theme_Keyword: water features
Theme_Keyword: shopping centers
Theme_Keyword: planningCadastre
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: City of Philadelphia
Place_Keyword: Philadelphia
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Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Maryanne Longacre
Contact_Organization: Philadelphia City Planning Commission - GIS Division
Attribute_Accuracy_Report: In daily use at PCPC. No systematic assessment completed.
Quantitative_Attribute_Accuracy_Assessment:
Logical_Consistency_Report: None completed.
Completeness_Report: Citywide
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: In daily use at PCPC. No systematic assessment completed.
Lineage:
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Hard-copy zoning maps were created in the early 1960's. In 1993, ESRI automated these maps from hard-copy mylars. Upon receipt of these data sets, PCPC updated them to current status. Subsequently, the data set has been updated as changes have occurred.
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Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Vic Davis
Contact_Organization: Philadelphia City Planning Commission - GIS Division
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: R2
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Single-family detached houses and specified professional offices, places of worship, galleries, museums, libraries, railroad passenger stations and utility substations in enclosed buildings. Other specified non-residential buildings may be permitted if a Zoning Board of Adjustment certificate is obtained.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: R3
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Semi-detached (twin) dwelings and all uses permitted in R2.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: R4
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Uses in R3. With different area requirements.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: R5
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Uses in R4. With different area requirements.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: R6
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Uses in R5 plus single-family row houses in groups of not more than 10 are permitted, provided they are at least 18 ft. wide.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: R7
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
All uses permitted in R5 in additions to single-family or duplex row houses in groups of not more than 10 houses.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: R8
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Same uses as R7. With different area requirements.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: R9
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Uses are those permitted in R8 as well as multiple-family row houses.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: R9A
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Uses in R5 and attached single-family dwellings.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: R10
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Identical with R9 except that no setback is required.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: R10A
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Uses in R9A. With different area requirements.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: R11, R11A, R12, R13
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Group Housing Districts--In these districts, groups of single, two-family, and multiple family dwelling structures are permitted on a single lot. These are districts in which several garden apartments or high-rise apartment buildings may be erected on large tracts. Since more than one structure may occupy the lot, conventional yard and height limitations are not imposed and formulas are used to provide for adequate spacing between buildings. The differences in these 4 districts are in the intensity of development permitted in each.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: R14, R15, R16
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Multilpe Housing Districts--In these districts, one structure for single-family, two-family, or multiple-family occupancy is permitted on a lot. These apartment districts may be distinguished from Group Housing Districts (R11 through R13) because in Multiple Housing Districts, yard area requirements are designed to regulate only one principal building on a lot.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: R17, R18, R19
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Coversion Districts--In these districts, regulations permit the conversion of residential structures to increase the number of dwelling units. A majority of floors shal have at least 700 square feel of floor area and yard space must be available for every family to be housed. Off-street parking must be provided and the total floor area in the structure must meet the ordinance specifications. For existing structures the total number of families permitted is determined by formula based on the size of the floors in the structure. Minimum lot area and width requirements, and minimum standards for yards are based on types of residential structures and number of families occupying structures.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: R20
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Small Lot Housing--Prmarily intended in areas where narrow and/or shallow lots are located. Single-family detached, semi-detached, and attached dwellings permitted. No specified lot size. Lot size depends on gross floor area and height of structure. Open space is gerally required to be minimum 8 ft. dimension and in the aggregate must be 25% of the total amount of floor area in structure. Other yards a minimum of 5 ft. permitted. Such yards, however, smaller than 8 ft. are not permitted to be credited toward the required 25% open space. Each lot does not need street frontage and off-street parking is permitted within 200 ft. of each dwelling unit.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: RC1, RC2, RC3, RC4, RC5
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Commercial uses are not permitted in most residential districts, however, because in some areas limited commercial operations are conducted within apartment buildings, the zoning ordinance provides five multiple-family districts in which such uses are permitted under strict limitations. The first floors in structures containing at least 25 dwelling units may be occupied, depending on the number of residential units, but limited commercial uses having a floor area of not leass than 500 nor more than 6000 square feelt. Professional offices on the first story of buildings of five or less stories and the first and second floor of taller buildings (except for RC1 which permits no professional or commercial uses above the first floor). This is a new district which encourages the intermingling of residential, commercial, and professional uses in buildings containing 25 or more dwelling units. THe gross floor area permitted is 1, 200% of the area of the lot plus additional floor area, subject to certain conditions; the commercial and other non-residential uses may not exceed 500% of the area of the lot.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: RC6
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Residential-Commercial Districts--This district is intended to encourage multiple use development on large tracts of land in accordance with a plan of development approved by and filed with a plan of development approved by and filed with the City Planning Commission. Said plan shall be in conformity with stated standards as to type and use, area requirements, off-street parking and loading, and signs. It is the intent of the districts to permit development of ground with the view toward preservation of existing topography, trees, natural waterways, and other natural amenities unique to the property.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: C1
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Limited Business--A commercial district which restricts the comercial activity to the first floor of the building and which uses are limited to the sale of food, gifts, variety merchandise, personal services, professional offices, and residential uses permitted in the most restrictive abutting residential district.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: C2
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Retail sales, offices, and personal and business services in enclosed buildings. Specified services and outdoor business and amusment enterprises may be permitted with a Zoning Board of Adjustment certificate.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: C3
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Similar to C2 with some restrictions on uses removed.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: C4
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Same uses as in C3 subject to same conditions. High density commercial, primarily in center city.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: C5
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
This district is for the Cetnral Business District Core and is the same as C4 except that a higher intensity of land development is permitted.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: C6
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
This district is intended for free-standing automobile oriented commercial uses which are separate from shopping centers wherein one use normally relies on other uses within the center to generate purchases.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: C7
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Most of the retail commercial uses permitted in C2; however, no residential uses are permitted, and off-street parking must be provided.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: O
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Office Commercial--A highly restricted district for offices, financial institutions, studios, research laboratories, and multiple dwellings.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: N
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Neighborhood Shopping Center--Small shopping centers for retail sales, offices and services in enclosed buildings of less than 4,000 sq. ft. floor area. A parking ratio of one square foot of parking for each square foot of floor area applies.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: A
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Area Shooping Center--Shopping Centers permitting a wider range of activities than in NSC district and requiring twice as much parking per square foot of floor area.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: L1, L2, L3, L4
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Limited Industrial--Four districts provided in which uses are limited to maufacturing uses which cause a minimum of noise, smoke, odors, glare, vibration, and similar disturbances. Industrical operations, exluding off-street parking and laoding, must be conducted within enclosed buidlings. Finished products manufactured in these districts shall not exceed 2,000 lbs. In wieght unless a Zoning Board of Adjustment certificate is obtained. The basic distinction between these districts lies not so much in the permitted uses but rather in the intensity of development permitted and in the requirements for yards.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: G1, G2
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
General Industrial--In these districts, a broader range of industrial activities is permitted than in Limited Industrial Districts and the qualification imposed on uses in the Limited Districts are removed. In the G1, uses must still be conducted within enclosed buildings but this does not apply in the G2. In the G2, a wider range of industrial activities, including many which normally have considerable emissions of smoke and odors, are permitted.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: LR
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Lest Restricted Industrial--In this district, any legal industrial use may be conducted. Included are many uses which may create the undesirable effects often associated with heavy industry.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: PI
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Port Industrial--This district is intended for docks, wharves, piers, storage sheds, and similar facilities associated with incidental processing of waterborne cargo.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: REC
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Recreational Districts--Parcels of public land under the jurisdiction of the City of Philadelphia Department of Recreation, Fairmount Park Commission, the Department of Forests and Waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the National Park Service of the United States Government which are devoted to park and/or recreational puposes may be designated on the zoning maps as Recreational.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: TC
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Trailer camp District--This district maintains stringent control on the establishment of trailer camps within the City.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: SS
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Sports Stadium District--This chapter regulates major sports facilities with elaborate controls on minimum area, distances of buildings from residential districts, off-street parking, height of buildings and signs, as well as "Use Conditions," which require approval of the layout plan and landscaping by the City Plannign Commission. It also requires approbal of parking facilites and traffic patterns by the Department of Streets. The Veterans Staium-Spectrum, and J.F.K. Stadium, as well as Liberty Bell race Track are so zoned.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Enumerated_Domain:
Enumerated_Domain_Value: IDD
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:
Institutional Development District-This is a district created ad intended to encourage the development of institutional uses, such as universities, hospitals, churches, and convalescent homes, in accordance with an approved plan. Minimum standards are provided for total rea, gross floor area, land coverage, spacing of strutures, off-street parking and loading, and signs. The plan of development must be submitted to the City Plannign Commission prior to the introduction of the Ordinance, and upon introduction, the proposed bill must be accompanied by a recommendation from the Planning Commission.
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
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Enumerated_Domain_Value:
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Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC)
Overview_Description:
Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
Zoning includes a polygon and an arc attribute table.
Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:
The .aat includes the 'usual' geographic attributes, as well as a code for certain line work. The .pat includes zone codes, as well as the 'usual' geographic attributes.
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Address: Land and Water Building
City: University Park
State_or_Province: PA
Postal_Code: 16802
Country: USA
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Resource_Description: PCPC Zoning
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Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20040305
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Pauline Bogush
Contact_Organization: Philadelphia City Planning Commission - GIS Division