UPDATED: DEC 2025
Resi Metrics’ Tarrant County Zoning & Land Planning Dataset transforms the fragmented world of local zoning maps and planning documents into a turnkey, sensibly priced, county-wide, parcel-level feature set—standardizing zoning from 38 cities and future land use from 46 comprehensive and special area plans across Tarrant County, Texas, and its immediate surroundings, providing property owners, brokers, and developers a clear, unified entitlement and land planning map for the entire region.
Behind the scenes, Resi Metrics reconciles 800+ local zoning districts into a 20-category zoning framework—including three commercial groups, two industrial groups, three mixed-use groups, six residential groups, and a small set of “other” and planned-development categories. On the planning side, more than 350 local future land use designations are standardized into 17 future land use categories organized along similar commercial, industrial, mixed-use, residential, civic, and open-space lines. Together, these systems create a single, homogeneous entitlement and planning fabric that allows you to ask cross-jurisdiction questions that are nearly impossible with raw city data alone—such as “show me all multifamily-zoned areas” or “show me all parcels with a future land use that supports multifamily” across the entire county in one pass.
At the same time, the original local zoning districts and plan designations are fully preserved, providing optional granularity when you need it. You can filter by Resi Metrics’ centralized zoning and future land use categories for countywide comparison, or home in on specific local districts and land use categories when you already know the exact labels you’re targeting—for example, a particular multifamily district in Arlington or a specific mixed-use or corridor plan designation in Grand Prairie.
Example applications
- Identify all parcels with an Industrial future land use designation or high-density multifamily zoning across (and just beyond) Tarrant County using Resi Metrics’ standardized categories.
- Focus on a single jurisdiction—for example, all parcels zoned for zero-lot-line residential in Arlington, or all sites with a high-density multifamily future land use category in Grand Prairie.
- Drill down to specific local districts—for example, view every parcel carrying Fort Worth’s “Urban Residential” zoning district or another named district or plan designation across the city.
- Review the Parcel, Tax Roll, and Environmental feature set to identify ownership, understand taxable value, or run a quick feasibility screen—looking at developable acres net of floodplain and wetlands, on-site issues like wells and pipelines, and nearby risk factors such as remediation sites or leaking storage tanks that could impact development potential.
What’s included
The zoning and planning feature sets are delivered together with the Resi Metrics Parcel, Tax Roll, and Environmental feature set, which provides extensive parcel-level detail including address and tax roll information, geodesic parcel area, jurisdictional overlays, and a developer-tailored environmental and site-features review—offering a comprehensive first-pass feasibility screen beneath every zoning and land planning overlay. The Zoning, Zoning Overlay, Future Land Use, and Special Area Plan feature sets are provided both as KML/KMZ overlays and as layers within an Esri Mobile Map Package (.mmpk). The Parcel, Tax Roll, and Environmental feature sets are delivered exclusively in the Mobile Map Package due to data size and performance constraints in KML/KMZ formats. For the best experience, we recommend opening the Mobile Map Package in ArcGIS Earth, our preferred free desktop viewer within the Esri ecosystem, which displays all included layers and attributes—overlays and parcel feature sets—together in a single environment.
Zoning Ordinance Feature Set – 38 Jurisdictions
Zoning is mapped for:
**Arlington, Azle, Bedford, Benbrook, Blue Mound, Burleson, Colleyville, Crowley, Dalworthington Gardens, Edgecliff Village, Euless, Everman, Flower Mound, Forest Hill, Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, Grapevine, Haltom City, Haslet, Hurst, Keller, Kennedale, Lake Worth, Lakeside, Mansfield, North Richland Hills, Pantego, Richland Hills, River Oaks, Roanoke, Saginaw, Sansom Park, Southlake, Trophy Club, Watauga, Westlake, Westworth Village, and White Settlement.
Behind the scenes, the dataset reconciles 800+ local zoning districts from these cities into Resi Metrics’ 20-category zoning framework (for example: Compact | Zero-Lot-Line | Urban Single Family, Urban Core | Downtown | Regional Mixed-Use Center, Light Industrial | Flex | Logistics), providing a cohesive view of the underlying zoning governing development in Tarrant County and immediately neighboring areas.
The zoning feature set includes:
- The central zoning category, providing a homogeneous zoning fabric across varying ordinances
- The local zoning district
- The zoning overlay district(s), if applicable
- A short zoning district summary that highlights the most pertinent contents of the zoning ordinance—intent of the district, typical allowed uses, residential intensity or nonresidential character, and key form considerations
- Direct links to the zoning ordinance text and the official zoning map or GIS viewer for verification and deeper entitlement work
Note that the zoning feature set includes overlap into surrounding counties where municipal jurisdictional limits extend beyond the Tarrant County boundary (i.e., Johnson, Dallas, Denton).
Future Land Use & Special Area Plan Feature Set – 46 Plan Sources
The Future Land Use & Special Area Plan Feature Set is sourced directly from 31 adopted city-wide plans and 22 special area plans. It reconciles more than 350 local future land use designations and similar comprehensive mapping into Resi Metrics’ 17-category future land use framework (for example: Suburban Neighborhood Residential, Multifamily | High-Density Residential, Utilities, Infrastructure & Future Growth Areas), providing a one-of-a-kind view of the land use policies guiding entitlement processes in Tarrant County and its immediately surrounding areas. The feature set additionally includes similar analysis from special area plans, including detail regarding proposed future land use amendments and the overall goals of each Special Area Plan document.
The dataset derives city-wide land use and vision plans from 31 comprehensive planning documents, including, but not limited to: 99 SQ Miles – A Vision for Arlington’s Future, City of Fort Worth 2023 Comprehensive Plan, Grand Prairie Comprehensive Plan Update, Mansfield 2040 Future Land Use Plan, Keller Future Land Use Update, One Vision for Our Future (Watauga), City of White Settlement 2040 Comprehensive Plan, and many others.
In addition, the dataset derives similar geospatial data from 22 special area plans (mapped as “Special Area Plan” future land use where applicable), including corridor- and neighborhood-scale plans such as: South Cooper Street Corridor Strategy (Arlington), South SH360 Corridor Development Strategy (Arlington), US287 Corridor Strategic Plan (Arlington), Cavile Place Neighborhood Transformation Plan (Fort Worth), Lake Arlington Master Plan (Fort Worth), Southgate 360 Corridor Plan (Grand Prairie), Grand Prairie 161 Corridor Plan, Grand Prairie Downtown Master Plan, and many others.
The Future Land Use feature set includes:
- The central land use category, providing a homogeneous future land use framework across varying jurisdictional planning documents
- The local land use category from the applicable comprehensive plan or special area plan
- A short land use category summary that captures the essence of the category, including its intent, typical associated zoning districts and uses, intensity and character, and any key form considerations
- Similar analyses for special area plans
Resi Metrics Parcel, Tax Roll, and Environmental Feature Set – Countywide
Beneath the zoning and land use overlays, every record sits on the Resi Metrics base parcel feature set—a cleaned, standardized parcel fabric built from county appraisal district data. Parcels are sourced directly from the appropriate appraisal district, and each polygon includes geodesically calculated square feet and acres (WGS84), giving you a consistent, analysis-ready measure of parcel size even when source geometry and area fields vary by county.
Each parcel also includes a set of map and source links for quick research. With a single click you can open the parcel location in Google Maps or Bing Maps, or jump straight to the corresponding appraisal district account page for that parcel, making it easy to move from the dataset into the live tax record when you’re vetting a site.
Tax Roll Data
Alongside immediate access to the parcel’s live tax record, the base parcel feature set includes the most recent available tax roll information, including parcel/account identifiers, appraisal year, and key property characteristics such as:
- Owner name
- Situs (physical) address
- Property use code and description
- Legal description
- Year built
- Building area
- Land area
- Appraised land, improvement, and total values
Environmental Data
The dataset includes Resi Metrics’ Environmental Layer, a comprehensive parcel-level environmental and site-features analysis designed to help developers quickly assess physical and regulatory constraints before they ever order a report.
Floodplain & Wetlands
For flood risk, each parcel is analyzed against the most recent FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL) to quantify exactly how much of the site is affected. The layer reports the share of the parcel that falls within the regulated floodplain (SFHA), the share that lies in the 500-year / 0.2% annual-chance floodplain, and the balance that is considered developable area outside both floodway and SFHA. These metrics are expressed in square feet, acres, and percent of the parcel, so a user can see at a glance whether they’re dealing with a lightly encumbered edge, a partially constrained pad, or a largely unbuildable tract.
Wetlands and riparian conditions are treated with the same level of precision using the USFWS National Wetlands Inventory and Riparian Inventory. Each parcel is flagged if wetlands or riparian areas are present and is assigned a primary wetlands type based on the largest intersecting class. The dataset reports the type and amount of wetlands on the parcel—including acres, square feet, and percentage of the tract affected—so users can understand both the character and the extent of potential jurisdictional constraints.
As with other Resi Metrics components, these summaries are paired with external map links centered on the parcel: a direct link to the FEMA Flood Map Service Center (MSC) viewer for floodplain detail, and a link to the USFWS National Wetlands Mapper for wetlands context. This lets users move seamlessly from parcel-level metrics into the authoritative federal map viewers whenever they need to validate or explore the underlying data.
Environmental Flags
Beyond flood and habitat, the Environmental Flags component aggregates a wide range of state environmental programs maintained by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and rolls them into a simple “Environmental Flags (any factor)” indicator for each parcel. Under the hood, the layer checks whether a site is on—or near—regulated facilities and programs such as:
- Leaking or permitted storage tanks
- Brownfields and Superfund sites
- Dry Cleaner Remediation Program locations
- Voluntary Cleanup and Innocent Owner/Operator Program sites
- Municipal Setting Designations
- Landfills
- Industrial and hazardous waste corrective action sites
- Areas covered by Watershed Protection Plans
Many of these are evaluated both on-parcel and within a defined radius (typically a half-mile or one mile), giving users a quick sense of both direct impacts and nearby conditions that could affect perception, liability, or entitlement risk.
As with the floodplain and wetlands metrics, these environmental flags are paired with live map links so users can immediately dive deeper when something lights up. Each category includes a companion link to the relevant TCEQ spatial viewer, and the layer also provides an EPA EnviroMapper link focused on the parcel, allowing developers to move seamlessly from Resi Metrics’ parcel-level summaries into the authoritative state and federal mapping tools whenever more detail is needed.
Site Feature Flags
The Site Feature Flags module focuses on the physical and infrastructure features that matter most for development risk, access, and neighborhood perception. For each parcel, the layer checks for pipelines and wells using Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) data—flagging whether interstate or intrastate gas or liquid pipelines, or oil and gas wells (surface, bottom, and trace), are on the parcel or within a defined buffer.
From TxDOT, it adds parcel and proximity flags for airports, railroads, and junkyards, and from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) it identifies mapped streams, including their general type and name where applicable. Parcels are also flagged if they contain, or lie within ten miles of, a nuclear power plant.
As with the other components of the Environmental Layer, these site features are paired with live map links so users can quickly investigate anything that shows up. Pipelines and wells connect to the RRC GIS Viewer; airports, rail, junkyards, and streams link to the relevant TxDOT geospatial viewers; and each parcel records when these sources were last refreshed. A single “Site Feature Flags (any factor)” field summarizes whether any of these site-level conditions are present, giving developers an immediate sense of whether a parcel warrants closer technical review.
Coverage note
The Parcel, Tax Roll, and Environmental feature sets are limited to parcels within Tarrant County, as defined by the county appraisal district boundaries. By contrast, the Zoning, Zoning Overlay, Future Land Use, and Special Area Plan feature sets are carried to the full extents of their contributing city datasets and are not trimmed at the county line. As a result, zoning and planning feature sets may extend into adjacent counties (including portions of Johnson, Dallas, and Denton Counties) wherever municipal jurisdictional limits cross the Tarrant County boundary.
Delivery & Updates
A secure download link will be delivered via SendOwl to the email provided during checkout. Resi Metrics will provide data updates and corrections for 30 days following the purchase date, ensuring you receive any material fixes or refinements identified during that period.
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