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Board of Zoning Appeal Requests
data.cambridgema.gov | Last Updated 2024-08-05T11:32:42.000ZVariances and Special Permits with status of under review, approved, denied or withdrawn. Cambridge's Board of Zoning Appeal hears and decides appeals, applications for special permits, and appeals and petitions for variances from the terms of the Cambridge Zoning Ordinance. This dataset includes available records from October 1, 2013 through current. This dataset does not currently include data from a relatively small number of cases with the type "appeal," because these cases are structured differently from the more common variance and special permit type cases.
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Article 22 Green Building Review Projects
data.cambridgema.gov | Last Updated 2024-02-02T21:51:03.000ZProfiles of development projects that are subject to Section 22.20 – Green Building Requirements of the Zoning Ordinance. Green Building Requirements ensures that major new projects and substantially rehabilitated buildings are planned, designed and constructed using environmentally sustainable and energy-efficient practices. The green building ordinance uses sustainable building rating systems as a technical framework to ensure that buildings throughout the City achieve a higher level in building energy use and efficiency, sustainability, and resiliency but does not require certification.
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American Community Survey 2018 - 22 Estimates by Neighborhood: Housing Demographics
data.cambridgema.gov | Last Updated 2024-02-02T21:51:16.000ZBlockgroup data from the 2018 - 2022 American Community Survey was recompiled by the Cambridge Community Development Department to align with approximate neighborhood boundaries. Categories include: Land Area, Housing Units, Housing Density, Total Occupied Units, Vacant Units, and Tenure.
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Building Permits: New Construction
data.cambridgema.gov | Last Updated 2024-08-05T11:30:58.000ZList of permits for new building construction in Cambridge. This dataset derives from Cambridge's ViewPoint permitting system.
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Certified Sustainable Buildings
data.cambridgema.gov | Last Updated 2024-02-02T21:51:12.000ZThis data set combines information from eight sustainable building certification programs, including two City regulatory programs, to show the extent and location of sustainable buildings in Cambridge. For inclusion in this data set, a building must meet at least one of the following criteria: receive approval from the City’s Article 22 regulatory process; receive certification from the Passive House program; receive certification from Enterprise Green Communities; or receive LEED certification under a LEED system that requires the whole building to meet sustainability standards. Some buildings meet two or more of these criteria. Information provided about the applicable sustainable building programs for qualifying buildings includes certification levels, certification types, ratings, or scores. Additionally, this data set contains information about other certifications (ENERGY STAR, Fitwel, and WELL) that may apply to covered buildings. If a covered building participates in the City’s BEUDO regulatory process, this data set indicates that. More specific information about BEUDO building energy usage can be found in the separate BUEDO data set. In this dataset, we use Cambridge GIS Building IDs as unique identifiers for certified sustainable buildings. Building IDs refer to one physical structure, even if there are multiple street addresses associated with that structure.
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Cambridge Residents Experiencing Homelessness By Race
data.cambridgema.gov | Last Updated 2023-08-08T15:10:00.000ZThis dataset includes Point-in-Time (PIT) data collected in Cambridge between 2012 and 2017. The PIT count is a count of sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons on a single night in January. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires that communities receiving funding through the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program conduct an annual count of homeless persons on a single night in the last 10 days of January, and these data contribute to national estimates of homelessness reported in the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to the U.S. Congress. This dataset is comprised of data submitted to, and stored in, HUD’s Homelessness Data Exchange (HDX). This dataset includes basic counts and demographic information of persons experiencing homelessness on each PIT date from 2012-2017. The dataset contains four rows for each year, including one row for each housing type: Emergency Shelter, Transitional Housing, or Unsheltered. The dataset also includes housing inventory counts of the number of shelter and transitional housing units available on each of the PIT count dates. Information about persons staying in emergency shelters and transitional housing units is exported from the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), which is the primary database for recording client-level service records. Information about persons in unsheltered situations is compiled by first conducting an overnight street count of persons observed sleeping outdoors on the PIT night to establish the total number of unsheltered persons. Demographic information for unsheltered persons is then extrapolated by utilizing assessment data collected by street outreach workers during the 7 days following the PIT count.
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Cambridge Municipal Greenhouse Gas Inventory 2008 - 2012 (Historical)
data.cambridgema.gov | Last Updated 2024-02-23T17:06:35.000ZScope 1 and 2 emissions from City of Cambridge activities for the years 2008 through 2012. For more information, visit: http://www.cambridgema.gov/CDD/climateandenergy/municipalsustainability/municipalghginventory
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Development Log Historical Projects Additional Details 2011 - 2023
data.cambridgema.gov | Last Updated 2024-05-13T17:58:34.000ZThe Development Log provides a record of large-scale development projects occurring in the City of Cambridge. The Log, updated on a quarterly basis, is distributed to City departments and the public to keep them posted about development progress, from permitting through construction to completion. The Detailed Historical Projects table include information about projects completed from 2011 to 2023. In addition to the general project information found in the Historical Projects table, more detailed data is available such as the number of affordable housing units and parking spaces. Since a project may include more than one use, data on each specific use found within a project is found in the associated Project Use table found here:https://data.cambridgema.gov/Planning/Development-Log-Historical-Projects-Use-Data/r5mv-isth.
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Decennial Census Housing, Tenure, & Households 1980 - 2020
data.cambridgema.gov | Last Updated 2024-02-02T21:51:34.000ZBlock level data from the 1980 through 2020 decennial censuses recompiled to align with neighborhood boundaries. Include data for total population, total housing stock, renter and owner-occupied housing, households, and families.
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Building Permits: 1 and 2 Family - DEPRECATED
data.cambridgema.gov | Last Updated 2024-07-31T14:54:56.000ZThis dataset has been deprecated and replaced by two new building permit datasets: Building Permits: Addition/Alteration https://data.cambridgema.gov/Inspectional-Services/Building-Permits-Addition-Alteration/qu2z-8suj/data New Building Permits https://data.cambridgema.gov/Inspectional-Services/New-Building-Permits/9qm7-wbdc/data **** Description for Deprecated Dataset: Approved building permits for 1 and 2 family homes. Building permits are issued to licensed construction supervisors and enable recipients to construct, alter, or demolish a structure or install a sign. The building permit must be obtained from Cambridge's Inspectional Services Department before the start of any work and must be prominently posted at the job site. This dataset includes building permits for the construction of renovation of 1 and 2 family homes.