LOT FILE · NASHVILLE AND AUSTIN · $29
What you can build on one lot, read from the city's records and cited line by line. $29.
Type one address in Nashville and Davidson County or the City of Austin. Our research agent reads the zoning code, the ordinances, the open cases and the permits for that exact lot, and you get a file where every line names the public record it came from. Not a zoning letter.
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- Usually ready within an hour, as a page and a PDF.
- Refund if a line is wrong. Write within 30 days and say which line; we refund the $29 and correct the file.
What the file contains
The exact list depends on the lot's zoning. The next page shows the list for your lot before you pay.
Nashville and Davidson County
- Height, setbacks, lot size and coverage for this zoning from the Metro Code's bulk tables, cited to the table and note.
- The 100 ft rule measured parcel line to parcel line, and the one-permit-per-lot and duplex rules worked out for this lot.
- Council bills, Planning cases and Zoning Appeals cases still moving that name the lot, its plan, its street or its district.
- Building permits issued on the lot, and rental permit density around it.
- The plan's drawings and ordinance read for height, setbacks, unit and floor-area caps, uses and the rental sentence, each quoted with its page.
City of Austin
- Height, setbacks, lot size, building and impervious cover and floor-area ratio for this zoning from the Land Development Code's site development table (25-2-492), cited to the row.
- How many homes this lot can hold under HOME (25-2-773) or the small-lot rules (25-2-779), worked out from the appraisal district's lot area, with the McMansion floor-area caps where they apply.
- How much of the lot lies in a regulated floodplain (25-7-92), and whether a short-term rental license is possible on it today.
- Zoning, Board of Adjustment, site plan and subdivision cases in review on the lot or nearby, and building permits issued on it.
Questions people ask
- Can I build an ADU or a second home on my lot?
- In Austin the file works out how many homes the lot can hold under HOME (25-2-773) or the small-lot rules (25-2-779), from the appraisal district's lot area. In Nashville it works out the one-permit-per-lot and duplex rules for the lot.
- Is this a zoning letter?
- No. It is research from the city's public records with every line cited, so you or your architect can check each one. If a line in this file is wrong, write to hello@darkvectorcognition.ai within 30 days and say which line. We refund the $29 and correct the file.
- What does the free map already tell me?
- The zoning at any spot in plain words, the property tax estimate and flood risk, free and with no account: Nashville land map · Austin land map. The Lot File adds the lot-specific reading above.
- My address is in another city.
- The $29 Lot File covers Nashville and Davidson County and the City of Austin only. Type any other US address, with its city and state, in the box above for the free answer: the zoning district and the parcel from the jurisdiction's own map layers where MapLedger's registry has them, each line with its source. The free land maps cover more cities: see the city list.