Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in Philadelphia as of 2016. Property owners and businesses jointly pay for a set of services to improve their area, whose geographical boundary is defined. BIDSs are also referred to as “Neighborhood Improvement Districts” and “Special Service Districts.” PolicyMap has mapped existing BIDs that were founded since 1990.
PolicyMap has broken out the commercial corridor data into multiple datasets for the different intervention programs. There are datasets for corridors involved in Corridor Cleaning, Corridor Management, Corridor Planning and Development, and Corridor Streetscape Beautification. The Corridor Cleaning and Corridor Management data reflects the most recent fiscal year included in the data while the Corridor Planning and Development and Corridor Streetscape Beautification data reflects the most recently completed fiscal year date range available in the data.
The Storefront Improvement Program reimburses owners of commercial buildings and businesses within designated commercial corridors who make storefront improvements. The program can reimburse up to 50% of the cost of eligible improvements to a maximum of $8,000 for a single commercial property, or up to $12,000 for a multiple-address or corner business property.
For more information: see the Navy Yard Keystone Innovation Zone , and the University City Keystone Innovation Zone .
Keystone Opportunity Zones (KOZ) are specifically designated areas where property owners and businesses that meet capital investment or new employment targets are required to pay little or no tax through 2010, 2013 or 2018. These taxes include Business Privilege Tax, Use and Occupancy Tax, Real Estate Tax, Net Profit Tax, State Business Tax, and State sales tax on items consumed at the KOZ site. KOZ sites are located throughout the City including in our industrial parks, in our high tech centers and in the Philadelphia Naval Business Center.
Community Life Improvement Program (CLIP) consists of several programs and agencies dedicated to improving the appearance of neighborhoods throughout the City of Philadelphia through the eradication of blight. These programs are designed to maximize effectiveness and efficiency by creating partnerships with residents and businesses to foster sustainable communities.
Through Heater Hotline, Energy Coordinating Agency (ECA) repairs or replaces over 5,000 heating systems each year.
Trained counselors at the NECs prevent utility emergencies by helping customers obtain energy assistance grants and utility payment agreements. NEC counselors provide budget counseling and intake for conservation and home repair programs that offer more permanent solutions to the problem of energy affordability. During fiscal year 2009 the NEC’s prevented 25,642 utility terminations. Together, ECA and the NEC’s provide over 50,000 energy services to more than 40,000 low income households every year.
Enterprise Community Partners created a series of Communities of Opportunity Indices meant to help local jurisdictions take stock of neighborhood conditions across five core dimensions: Resident Housing Security, Housing Market Conditions, Resident Health and Wellness, Resident Economic Mobility and Inclusion, and Resident Access to Transit, Infrastructure and the Environment. To learn about Enterprise’s methodology for creating these, please consult the Enterprise Opportunity Index Methodology documentation here .
The Obama Administration created the Promise Zone initiative to address the challenges of areas of deep and persistent poverty. The goal of this effort is to ensure that everyone has equal access to opportunity, and that the place you are born does not determine your destiny.
For more information see: http://www.phila.gov/ohcd/choice%20neighborhoods.html
Licenses were joined to standard census boundaries to generate aggregate counts of business and restaurant licenses issued by initial issuance year from 2000 to 2017.
Permit data is entered into LNI’s Hansen application and stored in its back-end Oracle databases. Each night at 3am data from relevant LNI Oracle tables are generated into GIS layers on Geodb2 (created via Phila.gov 2.0 initiative).
Each Appeal has a unique Appeal Key that can be used to get further information about that appeal. Such information about each appeal includes an appeal number, application type, grounds (reason) for the appeal, the primary applicant applying for the appeal, and the associated Case or Permit. Further information includes the date of a previous or upcoming hearing and the decisions made at previous hearings. If an Appeal is denied, an applicant may progress the Appeal to Court. If the Appeal progresses to Court, information is available for the resulting Court Case once a decision has been reached, including the action date, case number, court action, court result, and any provisos.
Indego Bike Share is a partnership between the City of Philadelphia and Independence Blue Cross , launched in spring 2015. Points represent locations of bike share stations.
The Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL) provides a list of open certified Child Care facilities in Pennsylvania on the OCDEL website. PolicyMap updates these data on a quarterly basis on the Philadelphia site license. For centers in Philadelphia, PolicyMap also adds an additional field indicating whether a center’s STAR rating and/or capacity have changed since the previous quarter.
Building condition relates to the appearance of the exterior based on observation. Condition values area calculated only for properties with an exterior condition value.
The KEYSPOT Network is managed by The Mayor’s Commission on Literacy, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia in partnership with Drexel University.
This is a point layer representing playground equipment sites that are either owned or actively maintained by Philadelphia Parks & Recreation. To create this dataset, PolicyMap extracted records data from the Master Facilities database – an inventory of buildings and other fixed assets owned, leased, or operated by the City of Philadelphia including buildings, structures, and properties (not including surplus properties) – with an ASSET_SUBT value of “C42.”
This is a point layer representing recreation centers that are either owned or actively maintained by Philadelphia Parks & Recreation. To create this dataset, PolicyMap extracted records data from the Master Facilities database – an inventory of buildings and other fixed assets owned, leased, or operated by the City of Philadelphia including buildings, structures, and properties (not including surplus properties) – with an ASSET_SUBT value of “C50.”
BSRP provides free repairs to the electrical, plumbing and heating systems of owner-occupied homes in Philadelphia.
PHS Roots-to-Reentry program provides vocational horticultural training, therapy, and transitional employment for Philadelphia Prison System inmates and Roots-to-Reentry graduates.
Source data was reviewed for accuracy with sites removed where gardens could not be verified through GIS based reference data (aerial photography, Pictometry) sources. Data points from the four sources were merged to create a single feature class, with no duplicates. All attribute fields from the input layers were maintained, and as a result not all fields are fully populated for each record.
The locations of graduates of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission Citizens Planning Institute (CPI) program. For more information on the CPI program, see https://citizensplanninginstitute.org/
The boundaries of Philadelphia City Council Districts. This includes both the old and redistricted boundaries. Council District boundaries were redistricted from the 2010 Census, and go into effect the first election year following the redistricting bill, in 2016.
Data includes commercial and industrial zones, i.e. areas with specific federal-granted special amenities (tax incentives, loans/grants) meant to attract and support businesses in blighted areas. Blighted areas are defined as meeting one of seven city mandated criteria, including unsafe, unsanitary and inadequate conditions; economically or socially undesirable land use; and faulty street and lot layout.
The purpose of an Enterprise Zone is to promote job growth and to help municipalities take advantage of business expansion opportunities when they arise. EZ’s improve the capacity of local governments and business communities by encouraging them to form public/private partnerships. In turn, these partnerships boost business investment within the zone. Increased business investment, job creation and sustained community self-sufficiency are the primary goals of the Enterprise Zone program.
Land use features are derived from Philadelphia Water Department tax parcel boundaries (2009 to current release date) and from other GIS datasets prepared by City departments including: planimetric features, transportation right-of-ways (ROW), parks and open space, and water. Land use boundaries are typically coincident with PWD tax parcel boundaries, where tax parcel boundaries are available to define units of land. In some cases multiple land activities on a single parcel and been individual represented as individual polygons of land use.
The location of libraries (branches and central) in the City of Philadelphia.
The “Master Facilities Database” is an inventory of non-sensitive buildings and other fixed assets owned, leased, or operated by the City of Philadelphia including buildings, structures, and properties (not including surplus properties). The database includes City-owned and non City-owned buildings and also identifies sites that have received Capital Program funding to support the use or maintenance of the facility or property by the City. Facilities include, but are not limited to: administrative or multi-purpose buildings, athletic fields, airfields and airport buildings, bridges, ball courts, fire stations, health centers, libraries, museums, plazas, parks and park buildings, playground equipment, piers, police stations, pools, recreation centers and buildings, radio towers, water and waste water facilities, etc.
The boundaries for the 18 Planning Districts of the Comprehensive Plan for the City of Philadelphia, called Philadelphia2035.
The boundaries of Philadelphia political Wards and Divisions as of March 2014. Philadelphia is divided into 66 wards, each of which is divided into from 10 to 50 divisions (each with its own polling place) – 1687 in all. Party ward leaders (Democrats and Republicans) are elected by each party’s committee people.
Boundaries of areas within the City of Philadelphia certified for redevelopment. These areas were either certified as blight or have a redevelopment area plan.
The Planning Commission will keep an updated list and map of RCOs on this website. New registrations will be accepted in June of each year. Every RCO must renew their registration with the Planning Commission every TWO years.
Boundary delineation for all catchment elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools within the School District of Philadelphia. ‘Neighborhood’ schools utilize these boundaries to determine where students will be assigned. Special admission schools, which use different admission criteria, are excluded from this file.
Point locations were identified by PCPC by geocoding the street addresses of the schools. Information was collected from the School District of Philadelphia, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Department of Education, and the private schools.
Polygon boundaries of Zoning Overlay Districts enacted under Section 14-500 of the Zoning Code of December 2011 and made effective August 22, 2012. Overlay zoning district regulations apply in combination with underlying base zoning district regulations of the Zoning Code. As allowed by the Zoning Code, overlay boundaries may overlap one another and are not required to be coincident with one another.
The Division of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) provides funding to developers to build and maintain affordable units throughout the city. This dataset shows point locations of DHCD-funded affordable housing projects across Philadelphia, including housing projects completed in the city between FY 2001 – 2017. This dataset includes count of units which are accessible to persons with disabilities, count of units made visitable for persons with disabilities, and count of units accessible to those with sensory impairment.
Locations of likely vacant lots and buildings were joined by PolicyMap to standard census geographic boundaries to generate aggregated counts of vacant lots/buildings for block groups and census tracts. These aggregated counts were divided by all parcels in a given area to calculate an estimated percent of properties that are either vacant lots or vacant buildings.
This dataset was assembled by the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (PRA) and contains property listings from the PRA, Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation (PHDC), Philadelphia Land Bank (PLB), and the City Department of Public Property.
Several datasets regarding stormwater management and green stormwater infrastructure are made available from the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD). The datasets include the locations of public and private green stormwater infrastructure improvements as well as the city’s combined sewer service area.
The Targeted Employment Area (“TEA”) for The Philadelphia Welcome Fund (EB5 Program) is composed of the Census tracts shown on the map. These tracts qualify as a high unemployment area. Projects must be located in one of these tracts to qualify for Welcome Fund financing.
The Philadelphia Police Athletic League is an independent non-profit corporation committed to “Cops Helping Kids”. PAL is comprised of 26 centers across Philadelphia serving thousands of youngsters both male and female. Each center is supervised by Philadelphia Police Officers who are assigned full-time to direct activities and oversee the young people. Programs include sport, educational and cultural opportunities.
Police District boundaries for the Philadelphia Police Department.
Building centroids for hospitals within the City of Philadelphia.
The PPD states that listed crimes are subject to change over time for a variety of reasons, including late reporting, reclassification of some offenses, and discovery that some offenses were unfounded. For more information about crime data reporting, see the source’s metadata file here: http://www.opendataphilly.org/opendata/resource/215/philadelphia-police-part-one-crime-incidents/ .
University and college area boundaries.
Asthma hospitalization Medicaid discharge rate per 10,000 (age-adjusted) for children under 18 between 2010-2014. The rates are expressed as discharges per 10,000 population, and calculated using the Philadelphia population as denominator from Census 2010 Enumeration, then adjusted for age with the weight from Census 2000 Standard Population. The ICD-9-CM codes of 493.xy were used to identify asthma as primary diagnosis, where x=0,1,2,8,9; and y=0,1,2. The discharge was classified as Medicaid if the primary payer was Medicaid.
Children under the age of 6 found with venous blood lead levels equal to or above 5 micrograms per deciliter. 5 micrograms per deciliter is the current reference level for determining elevated blood lead levels in children ages 1 to 5 years. ZIP codes with fewer than 5 reported cases are suppressed on the map.
Locations of Farmers’ Markets as of May 2018. There are more than 50 farmers’ markets in Philadelphia. Most markets are operated by The Food Trust and Farm to City. Most markets are open in a central neighborhood location, one day a week from June through October.
Every corner store in the Philadelphia Healthy Corner Store Network has introduced at least four new healthy options, such as fresh produce and low-fat dairy and whole grain products.
Walkable access to healthy food status, as of 2014. This dataset is derived from the Walkable Access to Healthy Foods in Philadelphia, 2012-2014 report. Please refer to this report for context around this dataset, such as detailed methodology, usage and analysis.
PolicyMap loaded a number of datasets to the City of Philadelphia’s site license that are meant to assist with the City’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) efforts. The data for this project were all prepared by Reinvestment Fund, but originate from a variety of sources. The Homeowners’ Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program (HEMAP) application data were obtained from the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency. The foreclosure filings data were obtained from the Philadelphia Courts. Eviction counts were provided by the Philadelphia Courts, and the eviction as a share of rental units data utilized Census’ 2011-2015 American Community Survey rental unit data as well. The Displacement Risk Ratio (DRR) utilize sales data and was calculated by Reinvestment Fund. Originated purchase loan applications as a share of residential sales are from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). The number and percent of families receiving rental assistance through the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program were provided by the Philadelphia Housing Authority.
The number of tax-delinquent properties and total amount receivable for all properties were aggregated to 2010 block groups.
These datasets includes high speed lines and stations, regional rail lines and stations, trolley lines, as well as bus routes and stops as of 2014. The data is maintained by SEPTA and released through the Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA).
The litter index shows the amount of litter present in neighborhoods of Philadelphia. Officers of the Philadelphia More Beautiful Committee (PMBC) visit police districts and sub-areas within police districts and assess the amount of visible litter. A score of 1 indicates virtually no litter, whereas a score of 4 indicates extreme litter. Data from the police districts and sub-areas are shown on the map by census tract. Each census tract shows the Litter Index score of the largest police district/sub-area within the tract.