For Development, Acquisition and Entitlement Teams
Find the code issues that can change the deal—before the deal depends on them.
LocalCode helps teams research the municipal rules that may affect use, density, height, setbacks, parking, subdivision, timing, and entitlement strategy. Each finding connects to the supporting code text, related provisions, and ordinance history—and identifies where additional site facts or professional review are still required.
The easy zoning lookup is not where feasibility breaks.
Deals are disrupted by the exception beneath the table, the overlay missed in another chapter, the definition that changes the use classification, or the amendment that never made it into the bookmarked code page. LocalCode is built to follow those harder code paths.
The use table, resolved
A use table is not a grid of symbols. It encodes permission, discretionary approval, prohibition, and the conditions attached to each. LocalCode stores it as typed determinations with the source glyph and the governing provision reachable in one click, so the answer in your IC memo is an answer a reviewer can check.
Table of Allowed Uses, 165 uses across 17 districts, with supplemental-standards references on the cells that carry them.
Every determination traces to a section
Read the controlling text next to the adopting ordinance it came from. When a cross-reference sends you to a definition three articles away, it resolves in place instead of costing you the section you were reading.
Controlling text and the ordinances behind it, side by side.
Gaps are stated, not filled
When the record does not support a determination, LocalCode says so and shows you what is missing. A build-to-rent product with no matching use category in a code written before the product existed is a discretionary interpretation, and it gets labeled as one rather than resolved into a confident answer.
Where a deal gets decided
By right, or a public hearing
Whether your use is permitted by right or needs a specific use permit or a PD rezoning is the difference between a permit and a nine-month process with a hearing. That determination sits in a use table, qualified by footnotes and supplemental standards in a different article.
Each cell resolves to permitted, conditional, or prohibited, and every footnote and supplemental-standards reference stays attached to the cell it came from. A permitted use carrying conditions does not read as a clean yes.
The cost of a no
You are under LOI with a 45-day feasibility period and twenty other sites in the pipeline. A local attorney and a civil engineer produce a memo in two to three weeks. Most sites do not survive that memo, and you paid for it anyway.
Pull the controlling standards in the first hour. Buy the consultant memo for the sites that make it past hour one.
The numbers you underwrite
A parking ratio of 1.5 against 2.0 spaces per unit changes the site plan, the unit count, and the return. Density, height, lot coverage, and open space each sit in a separate table, often in a different article than the use permission.
Dimensional standards are stored as typed structure with their source section. A blank cell reads as the determination it is rather than as missing data, and every figure carries its citation.
Which jurisdictions
We build a jurisdiction to depth rather than scraping fifty to the surface. Coverage today is City of Fate, Texas as the reference build, and an Austin feasibility pilot. If your pipeline sits somewhere we have not built yet, tell us which cities and where the deals are, and we will tell you honestly whether we can be useful on your timeline.
Tell us your jurisdictionsMulti-site screening
Screening one site is a lookup. Screening a pipeline is a comparison across jurisdictions with different definitions of the same standard. We are building the comparison layer on top of the normalized representation the determinations already use.
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LocalCode does not tell you what is economically, physically, or legally certain to be built. It helps your team determine what the written municipal code says—and shows the record behind that research.
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