Special Permit Areas

This polygon layer shows the land area that is involved in Special Permit development projects and other cases that come before the Planning Board for advice or review. Explore all our data on the Cambridge GIS Data Dictionary. Attributes Name Type Details Description CaseID type: String width: 50 precision: 0 Unique ID for Special Permit applications, with letter prefix indicating case type: PB- (Planning Board Special Permit), AHO- (Affordable Housing Overlay Design Review), and PBAC- (Planning Board Advisory Consultation). Numbers will have three digits, starting with 00 for numbers under 10, and starting with 0 for numbers under 100. CaseType type: String width: 100 precision: 0 Full name/description of case type indicated by CaseID prefix: Planning Board Special Permit; Affordable Housing Overlay Design Review; Planning Board Advisory Consultation ProjectName type: String width: 50 precision: 0 Name by which the project is known; can be the address if no other moniker is in use MapLots type: String width: 100 precision: 0 Map-Lot numbers of affected parcels. Can be more than one. CaseStatus type: String width: 30 precision: 0 Status of the special permit application and project. Mapped values are Permitting, Reviewing (for AHO), Permitted, Reviewed (for AHO), Under construction, and Built. Other values (not mapped) include Denied, Expired, No decision, Superseded, and Withdrawn. PolygonType type: String width: 30 precision: 0 Source for polygon: Parcel or Building ShowOnWeb type: SmallInteger width: 2 precision: 5 Yes/No for whether to display a polygon for the project on the Special Permits web map. For older projects with Status = Built, having ShowOnWeb = No identifies them as belonging to separate layer on the web map that can be toggled on and off. created_date type: Date width: 8 precision: 0 last_edited_date type: Date width: 8 precision: 0