Generalized zoning for cities, villages, and townships within Stark County, Ohio. This layer was originally conceived as part of a general zoning map for 12 counties across Northeast Ohio. The project was headed by the Northeast Ohio Sustainable Communities Consortium (NEOSCC), with the final map being produced by the Stark County Regional Planning Commission (SCRPC). SCRPC worked with Stark County's cities and villages to obtain zoning data they maintained and then completed the layer by digitizing zoning data for the county's townships with zoning resolutions (some of Stark County's townships and villages are not zoned). Once that project was completed in 2013, SCRPC continued to update zoning data for the townships. City and village data was appended to the layer when provided by those communities.

This layer was revamped in 2022 to provide additional capabilities. One of those additions were generalized zoning classifications, which is how this layer is symbolized. These generalized zones provide a more appropriate symbology for countywide maps, in which the community-based zoning was previously overwhelming due to the sheer number of classifications.