Models a municipality’s overlay district and related information.

The following Overlay District Data is included:Design Review OverlayInstitutional Core Campus OverlayRH Density Bonus OverlayNatural Resource Protection OverlayLarge Lot OverlayMouth of the River OverlayCentennial Woods OverlayParking Districts OverlayForm Based Code Height OverlaySouth End Innovation District OverlaySteep Slopes Overlay

For a detailed description of the overlay districts referenced in this data, please refer to the City of Burlington, Vermont's Zoning webpage. Please be sure to review all recently adopted amendments. The city provided this information: The Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance is amended pretty frequently and on no particular schedule. All of the adopted amendments are posted online following each published version of the CDO.

Overlay District data for the City of Burlington, Vermont. Data corresponds to the City of Burlington's Zoning Ordinance amended as of 10/23/23.

Zoning District Data for the City of South Burlington. Data corresponds to Land Development Regulations.Overlay districts can be found under South Burlington Overlay data.

Polygon Attributes: REFERENCE: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, na = Polygon not part of Height overlayDefined as setbacks from City street right-of-way edge (see attribute Depth), or as a polygon. Reference is a map reference letter in code text.

A Zoning By-law controls the use of land in your community, such as: how land may be used, where buildings and other structures can be located, the types of buildings that are permitted and how they may be used and the lot sizes and dimensions, parking requirements, building heights and setbacks from the street. This map depicts the zoning bylaw for the City of Burlington and has links to the documents describing the zoning bylaw.

Arcs coincident with street right-of-ways indicate where Shopfront facade Types are required. Arcs from parcel data street right-of-way arcs.

Poly Attribute: DISTRICT - Downtown, Shared Use, Neighborhood Parking District polygons are combinations of Zoning Districts, with one exception in the Old North End (see metadata for zoning_overlay_parking_arc). Mapping of Zoning District Abbreviations to Parking Districts: Zoning District Abbreviation -> Parking District FD6 -> DOWNTOWN FD5 -> DOWNTOWN DW-PT -> DOWNTOWN ELM -> SHARED USE I -> SHARED USE NAC -> SHARED USE NAC-CR -> SHARED USE NAC-R -> SHARED USE NMU -> SHARED USE CIVIC -> NEIGHBORHOOD EAE -> NEIGHBORHOOD RCO-A -> NEIGHBORHOOD RCO-C -> NEIGHBORHOOD RCO-RG -> NEIGHBORHOOD RH -> NEIGHBORHOOD RL -> NEIGHBORHOOD RL-W -> NEIGHBORHOOD RM -> NEIGHBORHOOD RM-W -> NEIGHBORHOOD UR -> NEIGHBORHOOD

This is a magnitude 5.0 earthquake scenario along the Burlington Toronto Structural Zone — a fault near Toronto and its surrounding region. This fault is not known to be active but demonstrates a plausible earthquake scenario for the Toronto region.

The city's building division issues permits for the construction, renovation, demolition and certain changes of use of buildings and on-site sewage systems. This map layer only shows building permits that have been issued or are final in the last 5 years.

City of Burlington Winter Control Zones divide the City in zones for winter control and other maintenance purposes.

****Converted to NAD83(2011) by ProWest & Associates Inc in January of 2019."The year 2035 regional land use plan incorporates the basic principles and concepts of the previously adopted plans. The plan promotes a compact, centralized regional settlement pattern, with urban development recommended to occur within, and along the periphery of, existing urban centers; promotes the location of new urban development in areas which are physically suitable for such development and which may be readily served by basic urban services, including sanitary sewer, water supply, and public transit services; and seeks to preserve the environmentally sensitive lands and the most productive farmlands in the Region. Like the previous plans, the new plan is advisory in nature. Plan implementation will depend largely upon the willingness of county and local governments to use land use controls to shape development patterns in the regional interest. The year 2035 regional land use plan will provide a sound regional development framework needed in support of transportation and other public facility planning at the regional level, and in support of the preparation of comprehensive plans and related plan implementation efforts by county and local units of government in the Region. " http://www.sewrpc.org/SEWRPCFiles/Publications/pr/pr-048_regional_land_use_plan_for_se_wi_2035.pdf