Seattle Temporary No Parking Reservations with Daily Updates

Seattle Department of Transportation maintains this layer of current temporary no-parking reservations. The data is refreshed nightly and filtered by complex definition queries on start and end times to show only active reservations. It originates from the V_TEMP_NOPARK_RESERVATIONS feature class and was last updated on March 22, -2026.

Use Cases

• Predict parking availability disruptions based on scheduled reservation times.
• Validate permit compliance for construction or event planning based on reservation status.
• Analyze spatial patterns of temporary parking reservations for urban infrastructure projects.

Strengths

• Data is refreshed on a nightly cycle, suggesting regular updates.
• Includes complex temporal logic to filter for 'current' reservations based on ACTUAL_START_TIME, ACTUAL_END_TIME, START_DATE_TIME, and END_DATE_TIME fields.
• Published by the authoritative city agency, Seattle Department of Transportation.

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

Seattle Department of Transportation, SDOT Parking team.

Collection Method

Maintained layer exported from a File Geodatabase (FGDB) with definition queries applied for publication.

Time Range

Covers current reservations, with logic referencing system date (SYSDATE).

Freshness

Nightly refresh cycle; last updated 2026-03-22.

Geography

City of Seattle.