DCP

The Department of City Planning is the city's land-use agency: it drafts and maintains the Zoning Resolution and the zoning maps, staffs the City Planning Commission, manages the ULURP public-review pipeline, and publishes much of the city's foundational planning data. When the zoning of a lot changes — a new district, a special purpose district, a Mandatory Inclusionary Housing area — the change was drafted, reviewed, and mapped through DCP's process.

For analysis purposes, DCP is the source of ground truth on what the zoning map says: district boundaries, overlays, and special-district lines all originate in its published layers. PearlAudit's zoning determinations resolve each lot against those mapped boundaries and the text of the Zoning Resolution, with the governing section cited on every rule.