The national zoning reference
Standardized zoning. Nationwide.
Every jurisdiction writes its own code, in its own words, in a thousand-page PDF. zoneoptics reads them into one standardized database — every district, every dimensional standard, every citywide provision — cited to the exact section of the adopted code.
Four layers, one standard schema
Districts
1,944Every zoning district with its lot minimums, setbacks, height limits, density caps and permitted-use lists, side by side.
Open →Standards
170,998The individual requirements pulled out of the prose — sign areas, fence heights, buffer widths — each with the sentence it came from.
Open →Localities
17,523A nationwide roster of every zoning jurisdiction, showing exactly which ordinances have been read and which are still queued.
Open →State statutes
50The enabling statute behind each state's zoning power — the authority model, the citation and a plain summary.
Open →One legend for every jurisdiction
Every district is classified and coloured in the tradition of a printed zoning map — yellow residential, red commercial, violet industrial, green open space — so a page of search results reads like a zoning map rather than a spreadsheet.
Complete, jurisdiction by jurisdiction
235 of 17,523 localities on the national roster have had their ordinances read in full, across 2 states. The remaining 17,288 are identified and queued for extraction.
| State | Localities read | Districts | Chapters | On roster |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 167 | 1,563 | 2,636 | 253 |
| California | 68 | 381 | 1,295 | 530 |
Accurate to the sentence
Nothing here is estimated or inferred. Every district, standard and provision carries the ordinance section it was read from and the exact language of that clause, so any value can be checked against the adopted code before it is relied on.
How the database is built →