Zoning and Land Use - New York City - ZoLa Map

okay so even though we're in israel that doesn't mean that we can't take a look at other places and uh for today i was looking at new york city and the resources that they offer as a land appraiser or just someone who wants to get familiarity with the matsav technoni or the planning of of their app of their situation so what they have from what i've come to understand is that they have this website called zola which stands for zoning and land use and if i'm not mistaken it's actually user developed under the new york city's planning department and we're going to see how you can use it to find out different information about properties and the general neighborhoods and so on and so forth so first off just notice the address it's a z-o-l-a zola planning and it can certainly will come through any kind of google uh search if you use zola maps or zola nyc maps and when it starts off take a note of of this legend here these are different layers that you have this is what you would call a gis system where you have a computer program that is encompassing many different layers and levels of different information and data and you can choose what data you want to show the default here is that it shows you the zoning districts including commercial districts and there's commercial overlays i'm actually gonna unselect that and they give you a map of new york city the five boroughs and just to zoom in a little bit here you'll notice that as of right now it's just showing major big swaths of land called zoning districts there's the zoning codes there's many zoning codes but for just on the intro level it's very simple to understand that the zoning codes that there's r1 are two those are all residential starting from r1 which means very simple residential very little um what we would say in hebrew foot density meaning very very wide and spacious and as you keep going up to r4 r5 r6 you have high rise buildings and so on and much more dense population so right now with the way the map it is i'm looking at the different residential areas and just for example if i were to go onto r3a and i click here i have a nice window popping up giving me a definition of r3a and what it's about and some of the information about it and then if i want to learn more about rfia districts our r3a districts i can click here and i'm told a lot more detail um what's significant for the purposes of new york city and this is actually very different than what we're used to here in israel is that new york city has really come to a point where the entire city has been defined in a uniform way so that they have a unified system of zoning a unified plan so to speak covering the entire city israel and certainly jerusalem at this point is not there yet at all so that in israel you're dealing with even within one city you're dealing with different tokyo different plans that relate to different parts of the city and basically it's a everything's divided into different parts to know any particular detail about a house you have to find the particular plan or tokunit that applies to it and see inside that plan how it's defined whereas now in new york city the entire thing has its own code system so that you can very easily just browse around the entire city and as soon as you see if it's an r32 all the areas that are signaled to r32 will have the exact same rules of land use and exposure and height so that you don't have to go digging into individual for each individual neighborhood you go to so that's that's pretty cool about new york city so for example here if i would take a look at now the definitions of an r31 district they tell you um the maximum lot coverage is 35 percent the floor area ratio is 0.5 the perimeter wall and in the very very easily have a snapshot of the land use what you can use it for how you can use it and how much you can build how much you have to leave empty and so on and so forth for all the different uh zonings so close that now that's uh let's let's go a little bit deeper let's go a little bit deeper into resolution higher resolution and we come into now individual lots okay and um as i come in deeper and i see individual lots let's see if i click on this here right now oh it does give me uh the tax slots this actually i don't i don't know at what point this change but that's really this function here this layer here is tax slots if i unclick it so then presumably you will not see the tax slots you're just seeing the zoning if i click on it it just gives me the general zone if i wanted the individual housing to click on tax dots and now i have a new layer i have this new layer that's showing me each individual tax slot which is what we would call basically a person's house this is the perimeter of the person's house i believe if you it gives you that it gives you also the address 26 witson streets if i come down all the way down here you have aerial imagery and i'll select that and it should give me an aerial image oh one second you have 2016 yeah there we go so you'll see here is that it looks like it's a looks like it's a dumash party a duplex that's a i think that's i think that's called in english it's a two units shared by a common wall 26 what's in and 28 bits in and that's my aerial image right there and i believe also you can do 3d buildings if i click on 3d here so now that it's a um it's now supposedly 3d but you know what let me see if i take this compass here and i start moving it right i start to see the 3d building so i don't think that's very helpful let's get rid of 3d buildings yeah it doesn't seem to be helpful 3d buildings but you can at least move with the compass you can start moving around the way it's going to be and in other cases possibly 3d buildings is helpful okay so let's go back to morph and bird's eye view and of course you see here different dates of when aerial imagery was taken obviously as you go further back in time the quality of the picture is getting much less so if i go to 1951 you have just a big bunch of nonsense because it's the quality of technology in the and the imaging wasn't as good as 2016. okay but coming out of aerial imagery for now let's go back to what we were talking about let's say 26 witson street if i click on it now i now get on the right side i get an entire snapshot of all the details of of this property i get everything i get uh queens which is borough four uh every there's five boroughs so in queens is the fourth i have the black number and an individual lot number which is 54 which is also shown here as the 54. uh these zoning district information we have here we have the owner the type of house the area of the lot which is 2880 and it gives you the dimensions of 30 by 96 presumably 30 by 96 should give you the 2880 which it does i just calculated that but of course in cases where the lots are irregular or irregular so then it it won't necessarily equal the area and it's a whole snapshot the gross floor area i'll just point out is what every all the floors that are built everything not just what's on that floor so if you have a seller and you have twos two floors everything that's built will be there now i'll just point out two two actually important things that i've noticed that are very important is the building info which redirects you to the department of buildings this bisweb and the property records which it redirects you to the department i think of finance which gives you all the information regarding ownership of the property and mortgages you get the entire mortgage history so let's go further now and explore those two main points before i do actually let me just point out here on the bottom you have a lot of the civil civil information that you might be interested in as a person for example what police district you you relate to what's a school district you you're connected to your sanitation district all these different things in case you want to reach out to someone you know who to reach out to who your city council member is and so on and so forth so let's take a look at the most two important which is building info which i guess the parallel from the israeli perspective would be um the rishui that would be based all the licensing of what was done to the building it was done and the property records which would be in the parallel israeli system would be the mishpati in terms of ownership and mortgages and liens and so forth let's start with let's start with the easier one i think which is the property records the accuracy here which takes you to which takes you to this page which is uh held by the department of finance and here you'll have a complete uh picture of the history of how ownership has been gone forth so without going into too much detail into all the different types of things here what i would point out is that you'll have mortgages you'll have a miscellaneous certain agreements and satisfaction mortgages that's certainly something interesting that here you have the mortgage and here you have the satisfaction of mortgage but of course this is not enough you have to actually see the actual document so that's that's all here in this column here of images so that if i click on i want to see this man's mortgage i click on image here and i'm given the 26 pages of this man's mortgage i can read it very detailed what are the particular conditions of the mortgage and where it stands this is from a land appraisal point of view it's it's essential because you really want to understand exactly what are the person's rights in his property what liens are there and all the different aspects of what he can and cannot do and it limits limitations of his ownership this is very helpful so that's just we'll leave that for now and that's that's the um what did i call in here in hebrews the mishpatisa aspect of new york city but uh the legal the ownership aspect held by department of finance let me close this let's go back to our original zola and the other side of this is the building info which this redirects you to sada rishui the licensing aspect in terms of the building itself and what was done to the building so i'm seeing already here now that for interesting i didn't know this on this particular property it actually has two separate bin numbers one for the actual property of 26 whitson and one for the garage of 26 what's in let's take a look at the house itself click on the bin number and here you have the profile in terms of the department of buildings i don't understand everything that's here but you'll notice certain things that are certainly relevant to the building you'll have questions of any if there's any landmark status to the building and particular restrictions to the building down below here you'll have a summary if there's been any complaints over the years by the owner violations in this particular case there's not much here but there is one jobs filing so let's click on that and this takes you to this job which was the applicant was linda now the summaries erect one story rear extension to existing dining room no change i don't know what this t-zo is so if i click on the job it will give me a summary of this job that was performed the application was approved in 1998 just pointing out some interesting things the person who requested the job continuing on we have the job type of what it's going to be doing and again i'm just pointing out from a very broad perspective how you can get more information and so on and so forth and that's really it it's a it's a very brief textual definition a summary of what was done what i will point out and i was actually very surprised by this is that there is no online access to the floor plans of this particular job which is not the case here in israel the general in israel is that every time you find a heterbenia a building permit of anything oftentimes online you'll be able to get the floor plans that went along with that head to bania along with that building permit and here new york city and i think it's really nationwide there's i've seen it from different websites that if you want to get the floor plans of your house or have a different house you have to physically go to the municipality or go to the record department and request it and if you're not the owner you have to get i think permission from the owner it's it's not as accessible as it is here in israel to get the actual floor pens of the house or the building so this just give offers you a summary of the of the job that was done it may be that the original building of the house from scratch may be an alteration to the house but no actual floor plans will ever be shown to you here which is very different from the system here in israel so that is really in a nutshell what i've learned from this whole um from these this website and again it's it's wonderful to see how much information is at your fingertips and how much really even as an individual person you can access you can access a wealth of information in any event i hope this is useful to you please give a like if you enjoy and feel free to leave comments below

Channel: Israel Land Appraisal

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Keywords: ZOLA NYC, NYC GIS, New York Zoning, New York Land Use, Land Appraisal

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Length: 14min 13sec (853 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 23 2020