Always-on data tools that keep watch between the stories, built and maintained by the Monitor.
Monitoring Tampa’s government generates a lot of data. These are the tools built to collect that data and share it. Most grew out of the weekly agenda, and all of them feed the coverage.
The AgendaThe clerk's weekly agenda, parsed and rebuilt: staff summaries pulled in, financial detail broken out on spending resolutions, and a map of that week's zoning applications.Updated weeklyLand Use MapCurrent zoning and future land use come from two different agencies. This map brings them together with layers you can toggle. The Monitor's first tool.Live mapDevelopment RecordsThe city's development coordination data, pulled, archived, and searchable. It also feeds the agenda's zoning map.Open toolMeeting ArchivesSearchable transcripts of council meetings, synced to the video with a flyout agenda.Updated weeklyCapital ProjectsEvery project in the city's five-year capital plan, with life-to-date spending.FY27 snapshotAgenda KeywordsAn email when a keyword you chose appears on the agenda. A street, a neighborhood, a project. Set it and forget it.Public BetaTampa MapsA growing collection of civic maps, led by the land-use map.Map shed
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