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City of Lima, Ohio GIS — zoning

Zoning attributes pulled from the City of Lima GIS public ArcGIS REST server. Every value here was returned by the service — nothing is fabricated or estimated. Regenerate with watermark zoning --districts (or query ad hoc with watermark zoning --parcel <no> / --cited).

Source

Layer 6 “Current Lima Zoning” of the CitywideMaps/Lima_Zoning map service (the web adaptor is /server, not /arcgis):

https://colgis.cityhall.lima.oh.us/server/rest/services/CitywideMaps/Lima_Zoning/MapServer/6

Anonymous (no token), serves f=json, maxRecordCount 10,000. Each zoning polygon carries a ZONING district label and a PARCEL_NO, so zoning joins to the Allen County CAMA parcel layer by id — no spatial query needed.

Files

zoning-districts.yaml — the district catalog: each ZONING code and the number of polygons carrying it (10 districts, 2,670 polygons), with a provenance meta block.

parcels.zoning.yaml — the cited-parcel jurisdiction scan (watermark zoning --cited --write): every parcel id cited in the corpus, joined by PARCEL_NO to this layer. The recorded result is a null with teeth — 0 of 48 cited parcels fall inside Lima’s zoning jurisdiction, so the data-center campus + JSMC corridor is not subject to the City of Lima zoning code; land-use authority is township/county (and Allen County GIS publishes no zoning layer — only Tax and School districts).

floodzones.yaml — the FEMA flood-zone catalog from layer 4 “Floodzone” (watermark floodzone --catalog). This layer is the FEMA DFIRM panel 39003C for Allen County (county-wide, not city-limited like zoning). It maps only the Special Flood Hazard Areas — Zone A, AE (incl. regulatory floodway), AO; 368 polygons. The layer has no PARCEL_NO, so a site’s flood zone is a spatial question — see watermark floodzone --footprint and data/reference/hydrology/campus-floodzone.yaml.

Gaps / caveats

• City limits only. This layer covers the City of Lima. Parcels in unincorporated Allen County — including the American Township corridor at the centre of the corpus — are not in it; a lookup there returns nothing, which means “outside the city,” not “unzoned.” (None of the 45 corpus-cited corridor parcels fall inside the city limits.)
• polygon_count ≠ parcel count. A parcel may carry more than one zoning polygon; the catalog counts polygons.
• District labels are the city’s own verbatim strings (e.g. CLASS I RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY, SECOND INDUSTRIAL HEAVY); the service ships no separate code→description lookup.

Cataloged datasets — generated from data/catalog/reference/; run watermark catalog render --apply after editing an entry.

lima-gis — City of Lima, Ohio GIS — Zoning, Cited-Parcel Scan & FEMA Flood Zones

Source: City of Lima GIS public ArcGIS REST — zoning (layer 6) + FEMA DFIRM flood zones (layer 4, panel 39003C) · License: Public records (local government open data); flood layer FEMA DFIRM (U.S. Government public domain) · Access: public · Site scope: lima-legacy · Refresh: on-demand

Regenerate: watermark zoning --districts