Zoning Report video
Ask about one parcel in plain words; each answer quotes the code as it stood when the building was permitted and as it reads today, with the permits that decide it. 1:14
What the film shows
Answers what a site's zoning allows and whether it conforms, from code and permits, for counsel
Agents find the parcel's district and overlays, read the code sections that apply, rebuild the code as of each permit date, read every permit, certificate and variance, and answer counsel's questions with the code quoted then and now. Counsel accepts, edits or rejects each answer; accepted answers become the report, which counsel signs and a partner releases.
Transcript
- Zoning Report tells counsel what a site's zoning allows, and whether it conforms.
- A zoning report takes two to three weeks, and every town's code differs.
- Henrietta's client is buying a 1996 office building for a clinic.
- Agents read a 340-page code, fourteen permits and two variances in minutes.
- She asks if the parking is legal, and both versions of the code are quoted.
- Legally non-conforming: 112 spaces built under the 1996 code, 140 required today.
- The clinic needs a conditional use permit, and the agents list the criteria.
- An unpermitted generator pad is a plain violation for the seller to cure.
- Henrietta signs a cited report the same day, not in three weeks.
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The narration as written for the film. Captions are on the player.