Public art is artwork in public locations where everyone can see and enjoy it.
Norfolk is among the great cities that use public art to inspire, educate, beautify and give character to public places. The Public Arts Commission together with city staff, developed policies for the development of artwork that creates a unique image and sense of place for Norfolk. This dataset is a compiled list of existing public art recorded by Norfolk

Pace Bike share launched in March 2018 in Norfolk, VA. A system of 250 smart bikes available for the Norfolk bike share program. The Pace program is a 3rd party application that allows riders to reserve and use a bicycle in Norfolk at a low cost. This dataset is a record of all Trip Path Data in the 2018 Pace Bike season for the City of Norfolk.

*Please note:
The information contained on City of Norfolk’s Open Data portal for Zagster Pace Bike Dataset consists of all of the data provided to the City by Zagster. The City makes no representation or warranty as to the completeness or accuracy of the data.

This dataset provides data from the Norfolk Division of Neighborhood Quality’s code enforcement cases including associated inspections, violations and status. The mission of the Division of Neighborhood Quality is to maintain and strengthen neighborhood standards. Staff use a variety of tools to achieve compliance including educating civic leagues, residents and the public about neighborhood quality. Other tools include working with homeowners to establish timelines for projects or pursuing legal steps for abatement. This data reflects the workflow of a responsive customer-oriented organization.

This dataset provides information about all Neighborhood Quality code enforcement open and closed cases along with their associated inspections, violations, and status information. All Neighborhood Quality data is collected and reported from the Neighborhood Quality code enforcement office.
Neighborhood Quality code enforcement’s mission is to maintain and strengthen neighborhood standards. The City of Norfolk’s approach to code enforcement is to use all tools to achieve compliance. These tools include educating civic leagues, citizens, and the public in understanding the scope of enforcement. Other tools are working with homeowners to help establish timelines for projects, and legal steps for abatement. This data entered will reflect that workflow of a responsive customer-oriented organization using tools to accomplish compliance. This web-based tool consolidates entry of Code Enforcement cases to one central application in correspondence with this initiative. All codes cited are from the city of Norfolk’s Codes Chapter 25 which covers Vehicle and Property and Chapter 27 which covers nuisances.

This dataset provides data about the city’s mowing schedule that is managed by the Bureau of Parks & Forestry Operations. Mowing locations include medians, parks, schools, vacant lots, and various other city properties.

This dataset begins in Fall 2019 and will include three years of data. The schedule is updated during three growing seasons: Spring (updated at the beginning of March), Summer (updated at the beginning of June) and Fall (updated at the beginning of September). Please note: all scheduled dates are subject to change based on weather.

The Norfolk Animal Care and Adoption Center (NACC) is the city’s animal sheltering facility. The NACC is an open-admission shelter; animals are never turned away, regardless of species, age, health or temperament. This data reports on an animal from the moment it arrives at the shelter (intake) to the moment it leaves (outcome). It also reports on foster activities.

The Scooters dataset is data about trips on electronic scooters. Lime Scooters were made available to the public in June 2019 to use throughout Norfolk. Data represents trips from July 2019 to the present and is updated weekly.

The Norfolk Animal Care and Adoption Center (NACC) is the city’s animal sheltering facility. The NACC is an open-admission shelter; animals are never turned away, regardless of species, age, health or temperament. This data reports on an animal from the moment it arrives at the shelter (intake) to the moment it leaves (outcome). It also reports on foster activities. This data is updated monthly.

The Scooters dataset is data about trips on electronic scooters. Lime Scooters were made available to the public in June 2019 to use throughout Norfolk. Data represents trips from July 2019 to the present and is updated weekly.

Information containing the master list of valid street names in the City. Street names may include a directional that is fully spelled out (i.e., East, West, North, or South) depending on how the street name was legally recorded. Those streets with a pre-directional (i.e., N, S, E, W) before the street name will be listed twice in this index, once under the first letter of the street name and again using the pre-direction. For example, W Brambleton Avenue will be listed both under W and under B. Street status field also indicates where a street is located: city, military base, or crosses over both military base and city.