Zoning
Verified, cited zoning answers for a parcel, and an alert when the rules change. Built for architects, developers, lenders and land-use attorneys, starting with New Jersey's 564 municipalities.
Nationwide sizing, competitors, the Legora analog, New Jersey's three rulebooks, model, go-to-market and risks.
Open →Change monitorA sourced change log with what each change means for a site, a county map and a verification pipeline.
Open →CoveragePopulation and Fourth Round affordable-housing obligations for every town, with each town's logged changes.
Open →Parcel deskWhat a zoning read looks like: district, bulk table, overlays, likely relief and the citations behind it.
Open →DeckSeventeen slides: the problem, the market, the analog, the platform, the New Jersey beta and the plan.
Open →Method & sourcesThe seven source layers per town, how often each is checked, the zoning ontology and every source cited.
Open →The five most recent of 57 sourced entries across 31 towns and statewide.
The Township Committee gave final approval on October 20 after introducing the ordinance October 6. It amends zoning chapter 271 for every district.
For a site: Neither use can be approved anywhere in Maplewood.
Food & Water Watch's tally reached 112 towns on October 20 with Millburn, Lawrence and Linden voting that night. Hearings were listed for Mahwah and Edison (Oct 26), Stanhope (Oct 27), Hamburg (Nov 2), Bethlehem (Nov 5), Rahway (Nov 9) and Little Egg Harbor (Nov 12). The count is an advocacy figure.
For a site: Roughly one in five New Jersey towns now bars data centers; check the local ordinance before assuming an industrial zone allows one.
An aggregator summary says the council introduced an ordinance cutting the warehouse size threshold to 50,000 sq ft and requiring 500-foot separation from homes and sensitive uses, now referred to the planning board. The source could not be opened.
For a site: Warehouse proposals in Jackson above 50,000 sq ft or within 500 feet of homes would face new limits if adopted.
The council voted 7-0 on first reading to amend Chapter 37, adding data centers to the uses prohibited in every zone and removing 'experimental or computation centers' from two permitted-use lists. Facilities of 4 MW per acre or 20 MW overall count regardless of name. Final vote set for October 26.
For a site: Once adopted, no Edison zone will permit a data center, including the industrial corridors.
The council voted 5-0 to approve a settlement allowing a continuing care retirement community at 1155 Pleasant Valley Way: 163 independent living, 84 skilled nursing and 64 assisted living units, seven counted as affordable. A zoning ordinance will follow. A sixth suit over 410 Main Street settled in August.
For a site: The Pleasant Valley Way site will be rezoned for a five-story CCRC; four builder's remedy suits remain against the township.