Explore Boston building permits, BPD crime data, and one-, two- and three-family zoning in Jamaica Plain, around Jamaica Pond and the Arnold Arboretum.
Search this neighborhoodJamaica Plain stretches from Jamaica Pond and the Arborway south to Forest Hills, with Centre Street and South Street as its main commercial corridors. Its housing includes triple-deckers, two-family houses, large single-family houses around the Pond and former industrial buildings such as the Brewery Complex on Germania Street, home of the Samuel Adams brewery.
Jamaica Pond and Olmsted Park are links in the Emerald Necklace. The Arnold Arboretum, Forest Hills Cemetery and the Southwest Corridor Park are among the larger open spaces; cemetery and garden land together cover roughly a quarter of the neighborhood in the city's zoning layer. The Orange Line stops at Green Street, Forest Hills and Jackson Square, and Forest Hills is also a commuter rail and bus hub.
CivicScout tracks Boston Police reported incidents, Vision Zero traffic crash records, and open building and property violation cases within a half mile of any searched address in Jamaica Plain. Crash records here do not publish injury counts.
View safety data →Permit activity is mostly renovation of multi-family houses, with larger redevelopment around Forest Hills, Jackson Square and the Brewery Complex.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →The zoning layer shows Jamaica Plain split among Three-Family, One-Family and Two-Family Residential districts, with cemetery and botanical garden open space covering about a quarter of the area.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →Location reports for Jamaica Plain addresses surface Inspectional Services building permits, open 311 requests, food establishment inspections, and the applicable Boston zoning subdistrict.
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