Fall NEARC 2024

In May of 2023, we launched the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas – only the third statewide zoning atlas in a nationwide movement to create a National Zoning Atlas. After wrangling zoning maps and regulations for 269 jurisdictions, the data had to be stitched together into a cohesive statewide zoning layer and analyzed to make some (hopefully) insightful conclusions on zoning’s effect on housing in NH. One of the challenges was how best to tell the story of zoning in NH (spoiler, using a StoryMap), and how to build an interactive viewer for users to explore the data in a meaningful way (spoiler 2 – Experience Builder). Join me for a behind the scenes look at putting the StoryMap and NH atlas together and brief demo of the final product, plus an update on planned improvements moving forward.