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The parcel's constraints, before the architect bills.
Zoning, height, historic standing, hazard overlays, the soft-story list and the state of every permit on the parcel — the feasibility questions that decide whether a deal is a deal, answered from the city's own layers in the order due diligence asks them.
The questions it answers
- What is the zoning and height limit?
- Is this parcel in the Maher area?
- Has anything been approved on this block?
- Is the building historic?
- What has been demolished nearby?
- What does the pipeline show here?
The sections that earn their keep
Zoning and heightThe district, the limit, and the historic status that decides what review an alteration needs.
Mapped hazardsLiquefaction, landslide, flood, Maher — the overlays that shape foundations, insurance and CEQA.
The building's permitsEvery filing on the parcel back to the earliest on record, with open items flagged.
What is coming nearbyWho else is already entitled within a radius — your comps for what gets approved here.
Streetscape and excavationMoratorium streets and planned digs, which decide when your utility work can happen.
Mapped wetlandsWhether the federal inventory maps a wetland where the parcel stands. Filling or building on one engages the Clean Water Act, and it is the gate that decides a schedule before an architect has drawn anything.
Work permitted in the street outsideEvery street-use permit in force around the parcel, grouped by job rather than by block face, with the window each runs for — what the street is already committed to before you apply for your own.
The EPA's compliance recordWhat the agency holds a record for on the surrounding blocks, and how much of it is out of compliance — the neighbours a phase one will ask about.
Written for you
Getting a project through in San FranciscoWhat the parcel allows, what is already approved on the block, and the sequence of public filings a project leaves behind — read as a schedule rather than as a list.Investing and small developmentWhat is allowed on the parcel, what is approved next to it, and the three obligations that change an underwrite after close.Permits, and the work nobody filedHow to read a parcel's permit history, what an open permit costs the next owner, and why the useful signal is often what the record does not contain.What San Francisco files every dayThe kinds of filing San Francisco publishes against its buildings and storefronts, how far behind each one runs, and why a list built on the filing date misses most of what was filed.
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