Decisions Coverage
Rectangle size reflects decision volume over the last 12 months. Click any area to drill into more local detail.
- Total Decisions
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- States Covered
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- Counties Covered
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- Jurisdictions Covered
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About this data
- The map counts land-use decisions from city and county meeting records in the last 12 months: motions, resolutions, ordinances, rezonings, plats, variances, site plans, and use permits.
- Jurisdiction = a county, an incorporated city or town, or a township, from the Census TIGER boundaries. The map draws the jurisdictions with a decision in the last 12 months, not all 39,000 that Shovels checks.
- A covered jurisdiction has a decision dated in the last 30 days. A dashed amber border marks a stale jurisdiction, which has decisions in the last 12 months but none in the last 30 days.
- The headline counts every decision Shovels holds from the last 12 months. The squares count only the decisions in mapped jurisdictions, so the squares add up to less than the headline. Each percentage is a share of the mapped total.
- A metro area that crosses a state line appears under each state, holding that state's counties only. Non-metro holds jurisdictions outside any metro area. Unknown county holds jurisdictions the source data does not assign to a county.