ZBA_parcels

This feature class layer is a dataset of the Baltimore parcels that contain points from the ZBA_point dataset. The parcels have an associated count of the sum of ZBA_points that are contained within each parcel. The points correspond to appeals to the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) from 1938 to 1999 concerning identified environmental disamentities. The data was gathered from records from the Zoning Board of Appeals to be used to examine environmental injustices involving low income/minority communities in Baltimore. Parcels were extracted from the Parcels_2004_BACI dataset by a "select by location" query to extract those parcels that contain ZBA_points. This new layer was joined based on spatial location with the ZBA_point layer and the number of points contained by each parcel was summarized by sum. This is part of a collection of 221 Baltimore Ecosystem Study metadata records that point to a geodatabase. The geodatabase is available online and is considerably large. Upon request, and under certain arrangements, it can be shipped on media, such as a usb hard drive. The geodatabase is roughly 51.4 Gb in size, consisting of 4,914 files in 160 folders. Although this metadata record and the others like it are not rich with attributes, it is nonetheless made available because the data that it represents could be indeed useful.