Solutions
Solutions for Entitlement and Development Feasibility
LocalCode helps teams work from verified development-code rules and source-backed provenance before projects reach submittal — live today for the Austin pilot, with approval-risk signals and amendment history on the roadmap.
Land Use & Zoning Attorneys
Legal research on municipal code is manual, unreliable, and audit-exposed.
Attorneys cite code sections in opinions, briefs, and due diligence. But the tools available today — Municode, eCode360, PDF downloads — give you the current text with no traceability. If a section was amended after your client's entitlement was granted, you need to know. If the ordinance that adopted a restriction was improperly enacted, you need to know.
LocalCode grounds Austin code citations in source-verified provenance — legislative chain on the roadmap.
- ✓Legislative chain (planned): ordinance → amendment history → enabling statute
- ✓Source-verified in the Austin pilot: attributes linked to their document and page
- ✓Audit-grade citations: section designation, effective date, adoption date
- ✓Amendment risk (planned): track changes since adoption, with the ordinance that caused each change
Entitlement & Land Use Professionals
An ordinance amendment you didn't catch can reset your timeline and your budget.
Entitlement timelines depend on the code staying stable. A rezoning, a new overlay, a change to dimensional standards — any of these can invalidate weeks of work. Today, most teams find out about amendments in a field review or when a planner flags something at intake.
Verified land-use answers now — amendment tracking on the roadmap.
- ✓Code snapshot at site inception: know the rules that applied when you started
- ✓Amendment tracking (planned): changes to the sections governing your project
- ✓Permitted use verification: confirm what's allowed before filing
- ✓Dimensional standards in pilot: building height (§2.2) and parking (§25-3-83); FAR and setbacks on the roadmap
Developers, Site Selection & AEC
Zoning is the last data gap in the site selection stack.
You have comps, demographics, property records, and flood data. But when it comes to what can actually be built on a site, you're pulling PDFs and calling planners. Structured zoning data — in a form you can query — doesn't exist for most jurisdictions. LocalCode is changing that.
Structured code access for site selection and development underwriting.
- ✓Permitted uses in covered Austin sections — structured, queryable; expanding section by section
- ✓Dimensional standards in pilot: max height (§2.2) and parking minimums (§25-3-83); FAR and setbacks on the roadmap
- ✓Non-conforming flags for properties that predate current zoning
- ✓API preview (planned) for teams that want to integrate with their own tools
PropTech Platforms & Data Buyers
Legislative intelligence doesn't exist as a data product. Until now.
Platforms that serve real estate professionals know zoning and municipal law are a gap in their data stack: the codes are unstructured, inconsistent, and constantly changing, and structuring them is a multi-year build. LocalCode is building that infrastructure the hard way — deterministic, source-anchored, and provenance-backed — proven first on the Austin pilot and expanding jurisdiction by jurisdiction.
A legislative intelligence API your platform will be able to build on (developer preview).
In Development — planned capabilities (roadmap)
- ✓Code Library API (planned): structured section text, hierarchy, and attribution
- ✓Legislative Chain API (planned): ordinance linkage, amendment events, authority data
- ✓Webhook events (planned): structured diffs when code sections change
- ✓Data licensing (planned) for enterprise and bulk use cases
Live Demo
Try it: ask an AI to read Austin's code — with a receipt
Paste this prompt into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. It fetches a real published section of the Austin Land Development Code and returns the verbatim text plus a provenance receipt — not an unsourced summary.
Open this Austin LDC section and quote the verbatim building-height provision text. Include the provenance receipt (source PDF link and source-text-as-of date) from the page: https://www.localcode.ai/codes/tx-austin/25-2/subF/art2/2.2LocalCode is building the layer that resolves how land-use provisions combine across overlays and compatibility triggers — starting with Austin. This demo shows retrieval + provenance on published source text, not a property-specific determination.
Example for demonstration only. Not legal advice and not a determination for any specific property.
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Start with Austin
The Austin pilot is live now: source-verified code with provenance you can audit, starting with Building Height (§2.2) and parking (§25-3-83) and expanding section by section. Apply to join the pilot.