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A colour that is a legal permission.
Also known as: Planning zone colour, Land use map colour
The convention colouring a planning map by the use permitted on each parcel.
Show the class of use permitted on each parcel of a planning map.
Contexts: Public information, Maps
Colours a legal permission rather than a physical fact, so the map shows what may be built and not what is there — two maps of the same street can differ completely and both be correct.
Contexts: Public information, Maps
Colour conventions differ between jurisdictions, so a zoning map must be read against its own legend and never against a remembered one.
Zoning colour conventions are jurisdiction-specific.
Contexts: Public information, Maps
Flat colour fills across a map, conventionally yellow for residential, red or brown for commercial, purple or grey for industrial and green for open space.