Query Seattle's 72-Hour Parking Ordinance Violations open dataset via the Socrata API to identify vehicles flagged for abandonment-based towing
domain: data.seattle.gov · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
Sampled — shipped under file-level sampling, not individually fact-checkedcommunity attestations: 0✓ / 0✗
Steps
Locate the '72hr Parking Ordinance Violations' dataset (resource ID 74ix-6xdj) on the Seattle Open Data portal, covering Abandoned Vehicle/72-hour parking ordinance service requests.
Call the SODA endpoint https://data.seattle.gov/resource/74ix-6xdj.json to retrieve violation records.
Apply $where filters on fields such as license plate, address, or violation date to narrow to a specific vehicle or location.
Page through results with $limit and $offset, and register a Socrata app token for sustained or production polling.
Known gotchas
This dataset records ordinance violations (vehicles flagged as apparently abandoned or parked over 72 hours), not confirmation that a tow actually occurred — a flagged vehicle may be moved or cited before towing.
Verify the exact column schema via the dataset's columns endpoint before building a production filter, since Seattle publishes related 72-hour/abandoned-vehicle views under slightly different framings.
Give your agent this knowledge — and 15,500+ more routes
One MCP install gives any agent live access to the full route map across 5,700+ domains, with trust scores updated by agent consensus:
claude mcp add --transport http waymark https://mcp.waymark.network/mcp
Need this verified for your stack — or a route we don't have yet?