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Legislative Intelligence for Law, Land, and Platforms
LocalCode serves professionals who need more than the current text. See how legislative intelligence applies to your work.
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 gives you the chain of title for any code section.
- ✓Full legislative chain: ordinance → amendment history → enabling statute
- ✓Source-verified: every attribute linked to its document and page
- ✓Audit-grade citations: section designation, effective date, adoption date
- ✓Amendment risk: see every change since adoption, with the ordinance that caused it
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.
LocalCode surfaces legislative changes as they happen.
- ✓Code snapshot at site inception: know the rules that applied when you started
- ✓Amendment tracking: see every change to the sections governing your project
- ✓Permitted use verification: confirm what's allowed before filing
- ✓Dimensional standards: height, FAR, setbacks, parking — structured and cited
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 for any zone — structured, queryable
- ✓Dimensional standards: max height, FAR, setbacks, parking minimums
- ✓Non-conforming flags for properties that predate current zoning
- ✓API access 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 that zoning and municipal law are a gap in their data stack. The challenge has been that zoning codes are unstructured, inconsistent, and constantly changing. Building the infrastructure to solve this is a multi-year project. LocalCode has done it.
A legislative intelligence API your platform can build on.
- ✓Code Library API: structured section text, hierarchy, and attribution
- ✓Legislative Chain API: ordinance linkage, amendment events, authority data
- ✓Webhook events: receive structured diffs when code sections change
- ✓Data licensing available for enterprise and bulk use cases
Get Started
Start with Austin
Full legislative intelligence for Austin, Texas is available now through the pilot program. Apply for access.