Seattle street vacation petitions allow property owners to acquire public right-of-way adjacent to their property for private development. The data is maintained by the City of Seattle's CADASTRAL.LEGAL_STVACATE_PLGN_PV system and is updated weekly, with a policy preference for retaining right-of-way in residential zones.
Use Cases
- Analyze spatial patterns of right-of-way transfers based on the geospatial nature of the data.
- Model urban development pressure based on the requirement for an adjacent development project.
- Assess policy adherence for retaining right-of-way in residential zones based on the stated policy preference.
- Track the legal process of converting public streets to private property based on the dataset's legal focus.
Strengths
- Data is updated weekly, indicating a commitment to freshness.
- Geospatial data types are explicitly supported via KML, GeoPackage, and GeoJSON formats.
- Dataset is sourced from an authoritative city system (CADASTRAL.LEGAL_STVACATE_PLGN_PV).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- City of Seattle
- Collection Method
- Extracted from the city's CADASTRAL.LEGAL_STVACATE_PLGN_PV system.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Updated weekly.
- Geography
- Seattle, Washington, USA