Put citizens in the driver’s seat on the road to site selection and zoning clearance.
You know the occupancy classification and land use code to open your city’s next hot restaurant. The entrepreneur who wants to open that business doesn’t.
But with OpenCounter’s ZoningCheck, applicants can easily see where their project is allowed. And they can do it in seconds. That means far fewer calls, emails, and in-person inquiries for City Hall to manage and economic growth for your city.
Take the jargon out of zoning. OpenCounter’s use code search lets applicants enter simple terms — like “yoga studio” — and see a list of matching land use codes. And if the right option isn’t there, they can browse the entire list of use codes and make the correct selection for their project.
A tailored interactive zoning map allows applicants to know where in your city their project is allowed. Plus, we precalculate the zoning clearance for every parcel in your city against every possible use. So as applicants answer a series of use-specific questions, OpenCounter’s zoning map updates every parcel’s status in real-time.
Your zoning maps need to be up-to-date on every date. Our technology pulls zone, district, and overlay geometry from your city’s Esri ArcGIS REST API. So any time your team makes a change in ArcGIS, the new data makes its way to ZoningCheck™ — quickly and seamlessly.
Once applicants enter their project details and select their parcel, they land on a downloadable summary page that includes everything from zoning district to development standards to the parcel ID. That means they’re ready to have an informed discussion about their project when they arrive at City Hall.
By adding the ZoningCheck™ Zoning Verification Module, OpenCounter provides staff with project-specific details from the applicant session for review. Details include proposed land use, base zoning, links to relevant code sections, and any applicable overlays. This speeds up the review cycle and allows planners to process more zoning verification applications with less work involved.
Learn more about our ZoningCheck solution.
