Montgomery County of Maryland's Floodplain District Permit dataset documents permits issued to control development in areas subject to inundation in a 100-year storm. The data is updated daily and includes permits for land-disturbing and construction activities intended to minimize safety hazards and environmental impacts. The dataset is published on the datagov platform.
Use Cases
- Mapping floodplain development patterns based on permit locations.
- Analyzing regulatory compliance for construction in 100-year storm inundation zones.
- Modeling environmental impact mitigation for projects near waterways with drainage areas of 30 acres or larger.
- Tracking the volume and types of land-disturbing activities authorized over time.
Strengths
- Update frequency is daily, suggesting relatively current data.
- Data is provided in multiple machine-readable formats, including CSV, JSON, RDF, and XML.
- The description provides clear definitions for key terms like floodplain district and permit plans.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Montgomery County of Maryland
- Collection Method
- Permits issued by the Department under the relevant article.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Daily
- Geography
- Montgomery County, Maryland