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1940 City Field Assessment Records

Abstract: This digitized collection contains approximately 90,000 images of Residential Assessment Records (a.k.a. “field cards”) created by the Tax Assessors Department of the City of Providence, Rhode Island. These cards contain information on structural conditions of buildings (e.g., grades of condition for foundations, walls, roofs, building materials, etc.) organized by, street address, and plat & lot number within the City of Providence. The verso of these cards contains structural diagrams, land valuations, and cost computations. ----------------------------------------------------------- Finding aid: Providence City Field Assessment Records ----------------------------------------------------------- Series 1: 1940 ----------------------------------------------------------- Creator: Providence City Archives ------------------------------------------------------------ Language of materials: English ------------------------------------------------------ Repository: Providence City Archives ------------------------------------------------------- Record Group Number: RG 131.3 -------------------------------------------------------- Scope and Content: The field cards were developed as a measure to accurately grade the value of a structure for tax purposes within the City of Providence. The strength of the collection, contemporarily, concerns the sections under “Land Valuation” on the verso of the digitized documents, particularly the status for which a building was zoned for (eg., house, apartment, industrial, or commercial structure, etc.). This information helps distinguish the maximum amount of tenants a residential building can have within code. Other areas of interest include quality assessments from building materials to structural condition (eg., cost computation of values before and after deductions of existing conditions and improvements of a structure). ------------------------------------------------------------- Arrangement: The field cards are digitized and arranged in the Socrata database system accessed by address + plat/lot. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Access to the collection: There are no restrictions to access. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Use of materials: The materials are within public domain. However, researchers are kindly asked to cite the Providence City Archives if reproduced. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Preferred citation: Residential Assessment Records, RG131.3, Providence City Archives.

Providence Police Case Log - Past 180 days

Recorded state and municipal offenses from AEGIS records management system of the Providence Police. A single case can contain multiple offenses. Refer to the case number to see all offenses for a particular case. The case number can also be used to look up arrest activity for a case in the Providence Police Arrest Log. <br><b>UPDATE:</b><br> Incident location is now using block range instead of house numbers. Addresses between 1 and 99 will be 0 Block, addresses between 100 and 199 will use 100 block and so on. If you are looking for actual addresses you can use the city's <a href="https://providenceri.nextrequest.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open Records Portal</a> to make a request. <br><br> To help maintain the anonymity of special victims and juveniles this list does not include violent sexual offenses, non-violent sexual offenses or incidents of harassment. Cases being investigated by the department's Special Victims Unit (SVU) or Youth Services Bureau (YSB) will not be published.

2014 Property Tax Roll

This dataset contains the 2014 tax roll for the City of Providence, used for collections in FY2015. Property taxes are collected from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015. Ownership data is recorded as of 12/31/2013.

Monthly Streetlight Electricity Usage

SustainPVD Municipal Energy Report FY2015

The Providence Municipal Energy Report discloses the City’s energy data in an effort to track progress towards the City’s energy goals, increase transparency, and lead by example. The City’s 2014 Sustainable Providence plan set a goal to reduce energy consumption 30 percent by 2030. Measuring and monitoring consumption by benchmarking buildings is an important first step to achieving this goal. Benchmarking is a means of comparing a building’s energy use to the average of similar buildings or to an established baseline.