Cincinnati Building Combo Permits with Plan Review Comments

Cincinnati building combo permits applied or issued since January 1, 2014. The dataset includes descriptions of work, plan review comments, and permit characteristics, created by the city's Department of Buildings & Inspections from the Permits Plus system. Data is refreshed daily.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in construction types using the COMP_TYPE_DESC and SUB_TYPE_DESC columns over time via ENTRY_DATE.
• Predict permit DATA_STATUS (e.g., issued, applied) using features like DESC_OF_WORK, DWELLING_UNITS, and CODE_BOOK.
• Classify or cluster ENTRY_COMMENTS and DESC_OF_WORK text to automate initial plan review categorization.
• Geospatial analysis of permit LOCATION to identify neighborhood-level construction hotspots.
• Model the time between ENTRY_DATE and DATE_ISSUED to forecast permit processing durations.

Strengths

• Daily refresh frequency ensures current data.
• Includes geocoded LOCATION data and administrative area mappings.
• Provides a data dictionary for column definitions.

Limitations

• Unknown total row count and dataset size.
• Temporal coverage begins in 2014; earlier historical data is not included.
• Sample data is unavailable for initial inspection of data distributions.

Provenance

Source

City of Cincinnati Department of Buildings & Inspections (B&I).

Collection Method

Data is created from permit applications entered into the Permits Plus system and processed by the Office of Performance and Data Analytics.

Time Range

From January 1,  2014 onward.

Freshness

Daily

Geography

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.