Interactive data visualizations and civic tools accompanying investigative reporting from The Citizen, an independent accountability journalism publication based in Willow Park, Texas.
The Citizen covers municipal government, economic development, and public finance in Parker County and West Fort Worth. Our reporting empowers residents with practical tools and knowledge to engage meaningfully with local government decisions — particularly around economic development incentives, zoning, and fiscal policy.
We believe public meetings are where decisions get ratified, but documents are where decisions actually get made. These interactive visuals are designed to help citizens read between the lines.
This repo hosts standalone, interactive HTML visuals that accompany our Substack articles. Each file is self-contained — no build tools, no frameworks, no server required. Just open in a browser.
This table updates automatically when HTML files are added or changed.
| File | Title | Description |
|——|——-|————-|
| zoning-compounding-visuals.html | How Zoning Decisions Compound Over Time | Interactive visuals showing how incremental rezoning decisions transform communities over time. Land use diagrams and tax base impact data. |
View online: Visit the live site at https://spen-hodge.github.io/thecitizen_visuals/
View locally: Download index.html and open it in any modern browser. Everything is self-contained — fonts load from Google Fonts, and all data, styles, and interactivity are built into the single file.
Embed on a website: Use an iframe pointing to the GitHub Pages URL:
<iframe src="https://spen-hodge.github.io/thecitizen_visuals/" width="100%" height="800" frameborder="0"></iframe>
Share a visual: Link directly to the GitHub Pages URL from social media, newsletters, or other publications. Attribution to The Citizen is required under the license.
These visuals are designed to be shared. If you’re a civic organization, neighborhood association, school, or journalist covering similar issues in your own community, you’re welcome to use and adapt these materials under the terms of the license below. We just ask that you credit The Citizen and don’t use them commercially.
If you’d like to collaborate or have questions about the data behind any visual, reach out via The Citizen on Substack.
Our visuals draw on primary public records and recognized professional standards, including:
Hypothetical scenarios are clearly labeled as illustrative. Source documentation is cited in each visual and its accompanying article.
All visuals are built as single-file HTML pages with:
This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
You are free to share and adapt these materials with appropriate credit to The Citizen. Commercial use is not permitted without written permission.
See LICENSE for full terms.
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