Land Use Zoning Districts in San Jose, CA.

The Planning Areas Map includes fifteen (15) planning areas, which are large sub-areas of San José. Due to their permanent boundaries, these areas are especially valuable in the collection and analysis of data over long periods of time. For example, the Planning Division uses planning areas to monitor the supply and absorption of vacant land and to track and forecast development activity. Data has never been updated.

The Global Land Analysis & Discovery (GLAD) lab at University of Maryland has produced Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, which provides a 30 meter resolution map of global land cover change between 2000 and 2020 generated from Landsat Analysis Ready Data. The map derived from this dataset for this study region and year distinguishes ten land cover classes: Bare Ground, Short Vegetation, Forest, Tall Forest (20m+), Wetland - Short Vegetation, Wetland - Forest, Water, Snow/Ice, Cropland, and Built-Up Area.Click here to download TIF version of layer

The numbers used in the climate zone map don't have a title or legend. The California climate zones shown in this map are not the same as what we commonly call climate areas such as "desert" or "alpine" climates. The climate zones are based on energy use, temperature, weather and other factors.This is explained in the Title 24 energy efficiency standards glossary section:"The Energy Commission established 16 climate zones that represent a geographic area for which an energy budget is established. These energy budgets are the basis for the standards...." "(An) energy budget is the maximum amount of energy that a building, or portion of a building...can be designed to consume per year.""The Energy Commission originally developed weather data for each climate zone by using unmodified (but error-screened) data for a representative city and weather year (representative months from various years). The Energy Commission analyzed weather data from weather stations selected for (1) reliability of data, (2) currency of data, (3) proximity to population centers, and (4) non-duplication of stations within a climate zone."Using this information, they created representative temperature data for each zone. The remainder of the weather data for each zone is still that of the representative city." The representative city for each climate zone (CZ) is:CZ 1: ArcataCZ 2: Santa RosaCZ 3: OaklandCZ 4: San Jose-ReidCZ 5: Santa MariaCZ 6: TorranceCZ 7: San Diego-LindberghCZ 8: FullertonCZ 9: Burbank-GlendaleCZ10: RiversideCZ11: Red BluffCZ12: SacramentoCZ13: FresnoCZ14: PalmdaleCZ15: Palm Spring-IntlCZ16: Blue CanyonFor more information regarding the climate zone map, please contact the Title 24 Energy Efficiency Standards Hotline at:E-mail: title24@energy.ca.gov916-654-5106 800-772-3300 (toll free in California)

This digital map database, compiled from previously published and unpublished data, and new mapping by the authors, represents the general distribution of bedrock and surficial deposits in the mapped area. Together with the accompanying text file (scvmf.ps, scvmf.pdf, scvmf.txt), it provides current information on the geologic structure and stratigraphy of the area covered. The database delineates map units that are identified by general age and lithology following the stratigraphic nomenclature of the U.S. Geological Survey. The scale of the source maps limits the spatial resolution (scale) of the database to 1:24,000 or smaller.

The Energy Commission has developed this app to quickly and accurately show addresses and locations to determine California’s climate regions. We invite builders and building officials to use this app to determine the climate zones applicable to building projects.