No. Our virtual assistants provide factual land use research, code extraction, and administrative due diligence support—not formal legal advice. They pull published ordinances, highlight permitted and conditional use tables, extract setback formulas, and request public records from municipalities. Any formal legal determinations, zoning opinion letters for title insurance, or legal representation before city councils remain with your qualified land use attorney.

To conduct thorough research, you simply provide the property's physical street address or Assessor's Parcel Number (APN), the county and state jurisdiction, and your intended project concept (e.g., "30-unit multi-family apartment", "drive-thru QSR", or "light industrial warehouse"). If available, you can also share preliminary boundary surveys or site layout sketches.

Each property memorandum typically outlines: County/City Jurisdiction, Current Zoning District designation, Permitted vs Conditional Use status for your proposed use, Minimum Lot Size, Front/Side/Rear Setbacks, Maximum Building Height, Maximum Lot Coverage & Floor Area Ratio (FAR), Minimum Parking Stalls required, Environmental Overlays (FEMA Flood Zone and Wetlands checks), and links to relevant municipal code sections.

Yes. When municipal codes are ambiguous or contradictory, your assistant can contact municipal planning and zoning staff via email or phone to request clarification on specific code interpretations. They can also submit formal public records requests (FOIA) to pull prior building permits, certificates of occupancy, variance history, and active code violation records.

Your free dedicated Project Manager acts as your primary quality assurance supervisor. They spot-check parcel reports for numerical accuracy, verify that all municipal code links point to current ordinances, monitor task delivery turnaround times, track logged working hours with complete transparency, and serve as your single escalation contact for scaling diligence volume.