Mapping application to support research related to City of Seattle land use, zoning, and other property related development regulations.Includes layers related to zoning, parking, tree regulation, and environmentally critical areas.

Map of areas in Neighborhood Residential zones served only by low-flow hydrants (with less than 1,000gpm flow rate). This layer is used by Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections (SDCI) to route permits in Neighborhood Residential zoned areas to Seattle Fire Department (SFD) for Plan Review. This layer was last updated in March 2020. Future updates as needed based on Zoning changes and updates to Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) fire hydrant data.

Investors are able to defer paying taxes on capital gains that are invested in Qualified Opportunity Funds that in turn are invested in distressed communities designated as Opportunity Zones by the governor of each state. Census tracts 86, 87, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 110.01, 111.01 and 118 have been designated by the Washington State Department of Commerce as Opportunity Zones. This layer dissolves the aforementioned Census Tracts.

Displays Environmentally Critical Areas (ECA) in the City of Seattle. For more information about the definition of the ECA layers, see Seattle Municipal Code section 25.09.Updated as needed.

Displacement risk indicator showing the number of new residential units through building construction permits filed with the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections (SDCI). Summarized at the census tract level; summarized based on the year the permit was issued.

Design Review Equity Areas are areas of Seattle where applicants for development projects going through the City’s Design Review program are required to work with staff from the Department of Neighborhoods (DON) to customize their community outreach plan to the needs of historically underrepresented communities.

Equity Areas are identified based on local demographic and socioeconomic characteristics from the US Census Bureau. Equity Areas are census tracts having a census-tract average greater than the city-as-a-whole average for at least two of the following characteristics:

1. Limited English proficiency, identified as percentage of households that

are linguistically isolated households.

2. People of Color, identified as percentage of the population that is not non-Hispanic white; and

3. Income, identified as percentage of population with income below 200% of the federal poverty level.

For more information please see Director’s Rule for Early Community Outreach for Design Review. Additional resources and FAQs are available on DON’s Early Community Outreach webpage.

Data Source: US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 2016 Five-Year Estimates.

This map will be evaluated and updated every three years.This layer is used in the SDCI Web Map.

Displacement risk indicator showing the number of Early Design Guidance building permits filed with the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections (SDCI) summarized at the census tract level; available for every year from 2006 through the most recent year of available data.