Explore Boston building permits, BPD crime data, and one-family and conservation zoning in West Roxbury, around Centre Street and Millennium Park.
Search this neighborhoodWest Roxbury, annexed by Boston in 1874, is a residential neighborhood on the city's southwest edge along the Dedham, Needham, Brookline and Newton borders. Centre Street and VFW Parkway are its main corridors, and about 48 percent of its area is zoned One-Family Residential in the city's zoning layer.
Open land is a large share of its area: Millennium Park, built on a former landfill, Stony Brook Reservation, Allandale Woods, St. Joseph's Cemetery and the Brook Farm Historic Site, the 1840s utopian community on Baker Street. The VA Boston Healthcare System campus is on VFW Parkway. Needham Line commuter rail stops in the neighborhood, and bus routes run to Forest Hills.
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 West Roxbury. Crash records here do not publish injury counts.
View safety data →Permit activity is mostly residential renovation and additions on one-family houses, with some commercial work along Centre Street.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →About 48 percent of West Roxbury is zoned One-Family Residential, with Conservation Protection about 14 percent and Parkland Open Space about 12 percent.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →Location reports for West Roxbury addresses surface Inspectional Services building permits, open 311 requests, food establishment inspections, and the applicable Boston zoning subdistrict.
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