Pingree Grove Studies

Most towns have their zoning code online. Almost none have it as versioned, hashed open data you can diff. Pingree Grove Studies is a civic field-data series about one village, built for residents first. Thread one is the full rulebook. Thread two shows where a property-tax dollar actually lands across nine taxing bodies. Thread three logs every ordinance the Village Board adopts, cited. Each thread leaves a public dataset behind.

Nine taxing bodies share a single line on a Pingree Grove property-tax bill. Thread two of Pingree Grove Studies breaks that line apart so you can see exactly where each dollar lands.

https://www.jakelawrence.xyz/research/pingree-grove

Most towns post their zoning code as a PDF and call it transparency. Pingree Grove Studies goes further: the full rulebook as versioned, hashed open data. Thread two breaks down a real property-tax bill across the nine taxing bodies that share it. Thread three is a cited log of every ordinance the Village Board adopts. Built for residents first, raw data available to anyone.

A property-tax bill in Pingree Grove has nine taxing bodies on it. Most residents have no idea what each one takes. Pingree Grove Studies is a civic field-data series about one village, the owner's hometown, built to answer that kind of question with actual data. Thread one publishes the full zoning rulebook as versioned, hashed open data. Thread two maps a real tax bill across all nine bodies. Thread three is a cited log of ordinances and resolutions as the Village Board adopts them. Each thread leaves a public dataset behind. https://www.jakelawrence.xyz/research/pingree-grove

A Pingree Grove property-tax bill lists nine taxing bodies. Thread two of Pingree Grove Studies shows exactly what share each one takes. Thread one is the full zoning rulebook as versioned, hashed open data. Thread three logs every ordinance the Board adopts.

https://www.jakelawrence.xyz/research/pingree-grove

Nine taxing bodies share a Pingree Grove property-tax bill. Most residents can't name them all. Thread two of Pingree Grove Studies breaks that bill apart. Thread one is the full zoning rulebook as versioned, hashed open data. Thread three logs every ordinance, cited, as it passes.