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Property answers for residents, every source shown.
Residents check an address and see every project at once, sourced line by line. Staff get a starting point, never a ruling.
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City of Riverbend
Planning & Zoning
What can I build on my property?
What can you build here?
Enter your address in Woods Cross. We answer every project at once, from the zoning code and official records.
Free answer for every project. The exact numbers for your lot are $99, yours to keep.
Informational only — not a permit, appraisal, or professional opinion. Verify with your local planning department. See Terms.
Fictional city · live answers from public records, scoped to Woods Cross, UT
- One line of code, or a link.
- English and Spanish.
- Locked to your own websites.
The 30-day staff evaluation
Twenty properties your staff already know.
- Before day 1
Agree the scope.
Two use cases and 20 properties your staff choose.
- Day 1
Staff accept a preview.
The 30 days start when staff accept a usable preview. Each finding is marked correct, wrong or missing.
- Days 1–30
We fix what matters.
Material errors are corrected or named as limits.
- Day 31
You decide.
Buy, extend or stop. If the City says no, nothing is charged.
Free. Nothing is charged automatically.
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For the staff report, in full
What it helps decide, what stays free, what the evaluation measures, and every question cities ask.
Three decisions, made earlier and with the record in hand.
Every answer is preliminary evidence from public records. The City still makes every determination.
- 01 · Which sites deserve a closer look
- Where to point a housing study, a consultant’s scope or an infrastructure question, before anyone has spent on it.
- 02 · Which constraints need resolving first
- Flood, slope, soil, access and zoning findings with their sources, and the questions nobody has answered yet, named as open.
- 03 · Which resident questions staff can answer faster
- Zoning, flood zone, “can I add an ADU here?” A resident arrives with a sourced starting point; staff confirm, correct or take it from there.
A screening result does not prove feasibility, produce a home or create tax revenue. It improves the first decision, including the decision to stop.
What an answer actually contains.
Each finding shows its source and the date it was read, and anything we could not read is named. If flood or terrain could not be read, the property is marked “Needs verification” rather than called ready.
Type your city on buildability.us to see what we can answer there today. Look at Austin first.
What stays free, and what a City pays for.
The free parts stay free whether or not the City buys. The paid service is scoped and quoted in writing; nothing below is sold before it exists.
| Free | Municipal service (quoted) | |
|---|---|---|
| Property lookup for residents and staff | Any address, no account, no per-question bill to the City | The same lookup, scoped to your boundary, embedded on your site in your colours |
| Your zoning code | Whatever we have already read, in every answer | Your full code read into cited standards, changes flagged, DRAFT until staff confirm |
| Section 104 inventory of land you own | Build, match, redact, export, memo and summary | Hosted public page, embed, ArcGIS layer, quarterly re-read |
| Screening across many parcels | Staff can score their own list in the app | An agreed boundary and parcel set, staff-reviewed candidates, CSV and GeoJSON exports |
| Support | A named contact, and fixes to findings your staff mark wrong |
Not built yet, so not sold: a monthly log of what residents asked. Citywide screening is quoted only after its boundary, parcel count, sources, refresh frequency and delivery cost are agreed. A resident who wants the full written report on their own lot can buy one from us for $99; the City pays nothing for that.
Resident report revenue · proposed, not offered yet
The staff-value case never depends on any of this, and nothing here changes checkout. Residents can already buy a written report on their own lot from us for $99. Below is a proposal for review: what a second tier would add and how a City-channel share could work. None of it is an offer, a forecast or a contract.
| Basic · $99 | Enhanced · $199 (proposed) | |
|---|---|---|
| Can a resident buy it today? | Yes, the current report | No. Preview only; not in checkout |
| Every free finding, with sources and open questions | Yes | Yes |
| Owner, APN and assessor record; value band and nearby sales | Yes | Yes |
| A proposed use checked against cited dimensional standards (for example an ADU) | No | Only where we have read the city’s code |
| A next-action checklist for that use | No | Proposed; not built |
| Human review, engineering, confirmed utility capacity, guaranteed feasibility | No | No |
| City’s share of one eligible sale (proposed) | $49.50 of $99 | $99.50 of $199 |
- Proposed share
- 50% of eligible receipts to the City.
- Eligible
- Sold through the City’s approved channel (its partner key on the embedded lookup), fulfilled and collected, net of tax and of refunds and chargebacks.
- Costs
- Buildability pays its own processing, data and delivery out of its half; nothing is deducted before the split.
- Not decided
- Payout schedule and statements, clawbacks on later refunds, cancellation, and how sales through a partner platform are treated. No partner commission is assumed on top.
- Accounting
- How any income is recorded is the City’s decision; we do not assume it is unrestricted.
What the evaluation measures.
The fastest honest test is a lot where the right answer is already on someone’s desk.
The fine print of each step
- Before day 1. We confirm sources and coverage for each of the 20 properties.
- Day 1. The 30 days do not start while setup is still blocked.
- Days 1–30. Staff time is measured against a baseline, net of the review itself.
- Day 31. Nothing carries the City’s name without approval.
Three questions the evaluation answers, besides accuracy
- What decision did this information help someone make?
- What research, expense or delay did it change?
- What still required professional or City review?
Use cases to test (pick up to two)
- Resident property questions
- Which sites deserve deeper investigation
- Constraints to resolve before a project
- ADU and addition questions
- City-owned undeveloped land (Section 104)
In your email, say which two use cases, when staff would have time (this month, this quarter, later this year, or just exploring) and where your zoning map or code is published. No payment card. Nothing is charged at the end. We reply within two business days with a proposed scope: the two use cases, how the 20 properties get chosen, and what your staff would review. A written quote follows only if you want one. Request a 20-property evaluation.
Two worksheets for the budget conversation.
Your inputs stay in your browser. Print a summary for the meeting.
- City value estimate
- Net staff capacity from your own inquiry counts and hourly costs, with upkeep and setup subtracted. Negative results stay visible; capacity is not cash savings.
- CDBG funding planner
- Map quoted costs to the eligibility, cap and budget status your Finance team confirms. It records decisions; it does not make them.
Utah city? See which lots the 2026 detached-ADU law (S.B. 284) reaches in your city.
CDBG grantee? Publish the land you own.
Public Law 119-101 asks every CDBG grantee to keep a searchable public database of the undeveloped land it owns. We build it with you. Building and checking your inventory is free. Publishing it is an annual licence, priced by your FY26 CDBG allocation. If your grant comes through the county, this is their job, not yours.
What it does not do.
- It does not guess. Where a record is missing, it says so instead of inventing a number. Utility proximity is never presented as service or capacity.
- It does not decide anything. Every answer is labelled preliminary information from public records and points back to your counter. It issues no permits and makes no determinations.
What your IT person will ask.
Three answers. Everything else is written down in public, before anyone has to request it.
- Public data only
- The lookup reads public records and your published code. It holds no resident accounts and no personal data.
- Every answer cited
- Each line shows the dataset or code section it came from, with the date it was read.
- Nothing on your servers
- It is a link or one line of code on your site. Nothing installs, nothing connects to your systems.
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Questions cities ask.
The evaluation
Does this replace our planners?
No. It gives residents and staff a sourced starting point, so planners spend their time on the cases that need judgment.
Has another city launched this yet?
No. No city is live on it today, and we would rather tell you that than point you at a reference you cannot check. The 20-property evaluation exists so your own staff can judge it on lots they know.
What happens at day 31 if we say no?
Nothing is charged, because nothing was set up to charge. Anything carrying the City’s name comes down, and your staff keep their review notes.
Evidence and your code
Who is responsible if an answer is wrong?
Your jurisdiction stays the only authority. Every answer is labelled preliminary information from public records, shows its source and read date, and points back to your counter. Your attorney gets the disclaimer text and the contract before you sign anything.
What happens when evidence is missing?
The answer names every reading it could not make, and a missing reading is never shown as a zero or a clear result. If flood or terrain is missing, the property is marked “Needs verification” instead of being called ready.
What happens when our code changes?
For code we have read into our records, we re-read it and flag cited values that moved, with the old and new sentence. Nothing says “per the City” until your staff confirm it.
Do we have to give you data or connect our systems?
Only the 20 addresses your staff choose. Everything else is public records and the code you already publish; nothing installs on your servers.
Coverage
We’re a county. Does it work?
A county’s zoning usually covers its unincorporated land; towns and cities inside it keep their own codes. An evaluation for a county starts by naming which code governs each of the 20 properties.
You haven’t read our code. Can we still evaluate?
Yes. Reading it is part of the evaluation, so say where your code is published. Where a place has no zoning ordinance, parcel records and federal hazard layers work there today, and the evaluation starts from the lot rules instead.
Buying
How do we buy it?
We provide a written scope and quote. Your Purchasing team confirms the required process. The evaluation comes first, so nobody is asked to buy before staff have checked the answers.
What does the three-year price lock mean?
The first cities keep their first-year annual price for two renewals: if you renew in years two and three, the price does not go up. It is not a three-year contract; each renewal is your decision.
Start with 20 properties.
Your staff choose them, check every finding, and decide.
Request a 20-property evaluation
Or email team@buildability.us with your city and the one question your counter hears most.