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Long Island’s Waterfront Zoning and Uses GIS Inventory

Long Island’s First Waterfront Zoning and Uses GIS Inventory: A Research Database Providing Geographic Context to Regional and Local Planning on Long Island

The Long Island Regional Planning Council has partnered with LiRo GIS to create a comprehensive inventory of waterfront zoning and uses on Long Island. The objective was to develop a centralized geodatabase of zoning classifications and associated waterfront activities, including marinas and commercial fishing. The Inventory provides a never-before-available resource for exploring the complex mosaic of Long Island’s waterfront development at any scale from the regional to parcel level.

The study area encompassed parcels within a quarter-mile buffer from the coastline, spanning 79 local government jurisdictions in Nassau and Suffolk Counties jurisdictions across Nassau and Suffolk Counties including: 2 Cities, 13 Towns, and 64 Villages. These jurisdictions had various zoning categorizations, resulting in nearly 600 unique zoning designations. The collaboration between LIRPC and LiRo GIS has resulted in a valuable GIS-based database that can be applied in development, planning, or economic studies.

As a publicly available dataset, the Waterfront Zoning and Uses GIS Inventory is a tremendous resource that can be filtered, analyzed, presented, and shared transparently in dynamic ways. Data layers can be combined to bring new vantage points to old issues, cultivating the progression towards greater understanding.