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Scan the Block · for renting

The building's record, before you sign for a year of it.

A listing shows you the flat on its best day. The city's and the county's records show the building on every other day: the fire hazard zone and the ground under it, what the county assesses it at, and what has been reported on its block. San Diego has no rent control and publishes no readable code-enforcement register, so this report does not pretend to either. One report, before the lease.

The questions it answers

The sections that earn their keep

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.
What was reported and approved on the blockPolice incident reports, 311 service requests and development approvals issued within the radius, by year and category, each against what an average San Diego area of the same size records. The city publishes these as files, so each count says the day its copy was taken.
The last 90 daysWhat this block has been like lately, against its own usual.
Licensed for entertainment nearbyWhich places around the address hold a live permit to put on amplified sound, and under which class. You cannot hear a nine o'clock bar at a Tuesday afternoon viewing, and the listing will not mention it.
Work permitted in the street outsideStreet-use permits in force nearby, grouped by job, with the window each runs for — whether the street is being dug up for the six months after you move in.
Before you sign, freeThe building’s card — the fire hazard severity zone, the ground under it, what the county assesses it at and the community plan it sits in — free at /check, shareable with a roommate before anyone pays for anything.

Written for you

Two registers San Diego keeps that most cities do notWho is trading on the block, and how much of the street is let by the night.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.

See it on a real address

Run any San Diego address and the report reads that city's portal live, at the moment you ask. Plans start at $49 a month, billed monthly or annually, and re-reading a report you have run is always free.

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