How do I find the zoning for an address in Scranton?

Scranton's Office of Economic and Community Development maintains the official zoning map and can confirm the zoning district for a specific address.

Is adaptive reuse common in Scranton?

Yes. Scranton's legacy industrial and mining-era building stock offers significant adaptive-reuse potential, and it's a common strategy for redevelopment in and around downtown.

What's the process to request a zoning variance in Scranton?

Variance requests go through Scranton's Zoning Hearing Board after review by the Office of Economic and Community Development.

Scranton, Pennsylvania · city zoning districts

Scranton, PA zoning map & districts

Scranton zones land under the Scranton Zoning Ordinance, administered by the city's Office of Economic and Community Development. As a legacy industrial city, Scranton has a substantial inventory of older commercial and industrial buildings — including former mining- and rail-era structures — that present significant adaptive-reuse potential alongside the city's standard residential, commercial, and industrial base districts.

The code Scranton Zoning Ordinance

Scranton zoning map

Scranton's zoning map and ordinance are maintained by the Office of Economic and Community Development, which handles zoning confirmation requests for specific properties.

There is no link to the official map here yet — confirm current district boundaries directly with the Scranton planning or zoning department.

A published summary is never the authority. The adopted ordinance and the city's official zoning map govern, and both change — verify the district and every standard on your parcel before you rely on it.

How zoning works in Scranton

Developers should expect projects involving older downtown or industrial buildings to involve close coordination between zoning review and historic or building-code considerations specific to Scranton's older building stock.

Reference depth

No district table for Scranton yet

There is no district-by-district table on this page. We publish one only where every code in it has been read against the currently adopted ordinance — and in some cities there is no district structure to tabulate in the first place. The overview above is the accurate account of which situation Scranton is in, and where to confirm below points at the authoritative source.

Where a table is coming, it lands in the order the state layer does — and the Pennsylvania waitlist below is the queue that decides that order.

Scranton zoning — common questions

How do I find the zoning for an address in Scranton?: Scranton's Office of Economic and Community Development maintains the official zoning map and can confirm the zoning district for a specific address.
Is adaptive reuse common in Scranton?: Yes. Scranton's legacy industrial and mining-era building stock offers significant adaptive-reuse potential, and it's a common strategy for redevelopment in and around downtown.
What's the process to request a zoning variance in Scranton?: Variance requests go through Scranton's Zoning Hearing Board after review by the Office of Economic and Community Development.

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Keep reading

← Pennsylvania zoning — who holds the zoning power in Pennsylvania, under which enabling statute, and the reforms that override local rules.

Other Pennsylvania cities

The zoning reference → — every state, plus city-level district guides like this one.

Scranton zoning summaries on this page are provided for information, not legal advice. Confirm every project against the current adopted code for the jurisdiction.