Zoning Dashboard has been a core feature for Address Snapshot reports of Chicago address, properties, and buildings, and it's time to change the name.

Zoning Dashboard has added more and more features over the years that it's become more like a "Zoning Assessment", wherein our system can automatically create limited zoning reports. 

What's new with Zoning Assessment?

1. All uses are shown

2. Parking requirements

Zoning Assessment can now describe parking requirements for residential uses at a given location. Parking requirements for non-residential uses require more inputs (like project scope, number of employees, size of the business or building) which currently can only be done in a personalized Zoning Assessment.

3. The latest map

This is a routine update, but our Chicago zoning map is current for all the rezonings adopted at the April and May 2020 City Council meetings.  

• Address Snapshot reports now show the most recent zoning districts, in addition to being able to show past zoning at that location
• Site Locator, our tool to find where in Chicago certain businesses or building types are allowed, has the latest map

4. Nothing - go look up an address

We are creating a directory of ADU "service providers" to help property owners build an ADU when it becomes legal (hopefully this fall). Architects, builders, developers.

Contact us you if you want you or your company to be listed.

Travel is down drastically, in order for humanity to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Many short term rental operators have no one to rent to. In some places —Dublin, Ireland— it looks like Airbnb apartments are rejoining the housing market. Some are curious if that’s happening in Chicago. Keep reading on our blog.

Now when you look up an Address Snapshot, we'll remind you about checking the mail for your Census survey, and if the address in an area that has a low response rate.

Why are we doing this? The data we get from the Census bureau is important in a lot of decision making in the private sector and in government, but it's also important that each neighborhood gets its fair representation from elected officials and funding for services.

Address Snapshot is where we put all of our data about a single property into one convenient place. You can get Cityscape Pro-level acess to an Address Snapshot Report by making a one-time purchase of that report.

Give it a try with this 100% off coupon. Sign in, look up an address, enter ADDRESSSNAPSHOTFEB2020 and click "Apply code". One coupon per customer, up to 100 redemptions.

For our Cityscape Pro members: We've added a new Property Finder map that shows properties that have delinquent taxes for the 2018 and earlier tax years. A tax sale will occur in May 2020 (this is different than the biannual scavenger sale).

We will soon be adding a lookup tool that will enable users to see if a given address or PIN is listed in the tax sale. The Cook County Treasurer, which manages the tax sale, has their own lookup tool.

We've updated our Amenities & Social Infrastructure database to include the latest data about doctors offices, grocery stores, community centers, banks, and other neighborhood amenities. This dataset includes the 2019 survey of businesses and organizations that teens working for MAPSCorps collected.

Want to access the data? Look up an Address Snapshot.