Within 1 block of my house there are townhomes, a mansion, single family homes, 2 parks, mid rises, a hotel, real commercial, a high rise, an sro and a school.

The commercial, parks and hotel are accurately represented but only 1 set of townhouses are otherwise. And that’s the set that takes up a whole block.

Otherwise the mixed blocks all come up as single family. Which might just be a fidelity problem.

It's not a computer science problem at all. It's literally just a matter of having a uniue color for each type of zone.

There should be more detailed info in the tooltip for each parcel.

None of which is really unbearable to live somewhat near to (unlike heavy industrial, they do shut down at night), but they're often pretty locally polluting. Brake dust, metal shavings, wood finishes with VOC's, paints, and then all sorts of chemicals used as solvents for cleaning, rust removers, etc.

How does it bother the outside world if there's metal shavings in a machine shop? They save and recycle those for - they aren't just dumping them in the street.

In Zillow, choosing recently sold houses only within last 60 days shows mostly $300k to $600k detached single family houses, with a few $1M+ houses in the northeast section (I-90/94 seems to be the demarcation of most $1M+ homes).