The City’s current Zoning Ordinance was adopted in November 2014 and became effective on December 24, 2014, and contains amendments up to and including July 27, 2018. The Department of Planning and Development strives to incorporate amendments as soon as they are approved. Contact the Department to inquire about recent amendments. For a certified copy of the Ordinance, contact the City Clerk’s office.

Using Providence's Tree Inventory dataset, d3.js, and leaflet.js James Dillon, a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University created this neat visualization.

The reports contain a wealth of information about city finances such as independent auditor's reports, statements of revenues and expenditures, net assets, property tax levies as well as comparative statistical charts. The text is searchable by keyword. In 2014 the City Archives initiated a multi-year effort to digitize permanent records housed at the archives. Currently or soon to be available are searchable digital files containing Tax Assessor Filed Cards, house directories, financial reports, atlas maps, as well as a large collection of historical photos.

The Providence City Archives is pleased to announce the completion of a project to scan the Providence House Directories.

These directories were published between 1895 and 1935 and are an invaluable resource for those conducting house research, neighborhood demographic change, and occupancy patterns. Basic entries in the more than 20,000 pages of information are organized by street (unlike the city directories).

Individual name listings for each address in many cases indicate occupation and whether the resident is a boarder or owner of the property. Additional directory sections include information on parks, businesses, churches, clubs, theaters, cemeteries, places of amusement and basic census data.
The scanned listings allow for key word searches.

Crime data in the weekly report is compiled on Monday mornings based on the data available at that time. As crimes are investigated the nature of and facts about a crime may result in revisions to data compiled in previous weeks. Any questions regarding the weekly crime report should be directed to the City of Providence, Office of Public Safety at 401-272-3121

This dataset contains a searchable map of crime reports within the City of Providence. Incidents can be filtered by date and crime type.