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For cities & partners
Cities publish their land and their code through Buildability; residents, builders and investors read it. A city account puts the checker on the city’s site, lets staff confirm how their code was read, and builds the land inventory federal programs ask for.
A city account
Sign up as a city or county
Choose the city or county account. A city email address is verified at once; otherwise we confirm by hand.
Install the checker
Copy the widget snippet, or link to your hosted page. See Widget.
Add your next steps
Set the links and the contact residents see after their answer: the permit portal, the zoning office, the pre-application meeting.
Invite staff
Add planners as members, and a publisher for what goes live.
The free evaluation is described for planning directors on Buildability for cities.
Your code, confirmed
A city can hand over its zoning code directly. The Atlas reads it under the same verbatim-quote rule as every other read, and the read stays a draft until your staff confirm it. Confirming records the date and never changes a number. Only then do residents see your standards marked “Per the City”. See Draft and confirmed reads.
Section 104 inventories
For CDBG grantees, Buildability assembles an inventory of publicly owned land: every parcel matched, scored and cited. Building and checking your inventory is free. Publishing it is an annual licence priced by your FY26 CDBG allocation, payable by card or by invoice (Net 30).
A published inventory is open to anyone who needs to read it:
| Surface | For |
|---|---|
/inventory/<slug> | The public inventory page |
/embed/inventory/<slug> | An embeddable map for the city’s own site, with theme=light|dark and accent |
/api/public/inventory/<slug>?format=… | Downloads as json, csv, xlsx or geojson |
/api/public/inventory/<slug>/FeatureServer/0 | An Esri-compatible feature service: add it to ArcGIS as a layer |
Start from the HUD grantee list at Section 104 inventories.
An inventory says what the record shows about each parcel. It does not rule on a grantee’s eligibility; low/mod-income area figures are context, and HUD’s rules decide.
Platforms
A company that serves many cities, such as a municipal software platform, joins the partner program by application. The Partner Console adds cities one at a time or as a pasted list, hands out each city’s snippet, manages members and shows statements. A city under a platform still owns its own account and verification.
City pages
Every US place has a page at /cities: what the record shows locally, with its sources. Places where the zoning source has been validated are indexed for search; the rest are available but not indexed until their sources are.
Didn’t find it? The Help Center answers account and billing questions, and Geo answers questions about a specific parcel inside the app.