CDU Railway Risk Constraint Zone: Urban Planning Areas in Laval

Laval, Quebec, maps areas with railway risk constraints as defined by its urban planning code (CDU). The dataset is provided by the Government and Municipalities of Québec under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated on 2026-04-22. It is available in multiple geospatial formats including SHP, GEOJSON, KML, and CSV.

Use Cases

• Assess land development suitability based on proximity to railway risk zones.
• Integrate regulatory zoning layers into municipal GIS systems for planning workflows.
• Model spatial risk constraints for infrastructure and community safety planning.

Strengths

• Available in multiple interoperable geospatial formats (SHP, GEOJSON, KML, CSV).
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded (2026-04-22 17:38:39.123797).

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

Collection Method

Mapping of regulatory zones, likely derived from official urban planning codes.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 17:38:39.123797; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Laval, Quebec, Canada