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The parcel's constraints, before the architect bills.

The base zone, the community plan that governs it more tightly than the zone does, six hazard layers read at the address, and what the city has already approved on the same streets — the feasibility questions that decide whether a deal is a deal, answered from the city's and the region's own layers.

The questions it answers

The sections that earn their keep

Zoning and the community planThe base zone with the ordinance that set it and the date it took effect, and the community plan the address falls in — which governs what may be built here more tightly than the zone does.
The ground under it, and the fire above itThe state's fire hazard severity zone and whose responsibility area it falls in, the region's copy of the federal floodplain with its panel, mapped steep slope, any mapped active fault, whether a recorded wildfire has reached the point, and the evacuation zone an order would name. A layer that maps no zone here says so; one that did not answer is marked unread rather than counted as clear.
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.
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

What San Diego files every dayFive lists from the city's permit file, keyed on the day an approval was issued rather than the day it was asked for.How to read a San Diego reportWhat the city publishes, what the region publishes, and why this city's counts carry a date the others do not.Why this city's numbers say when they were takenSan Diego publishes its whole transactional record as files with no way to query them. So this report holds a copy, and tells you how old it is.What a San Diego assessment actually isAnchored to the last sale, capped at about two per cent a year, and published as one roll rather than a run of years. Why a seller's bill says nothing about a buyer's.

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