Before you make the offer, price the job, or draw a line — find out what the property will actually allow. Zoning and building code, for one specific address, each answer cited to the subsection it came from. In a few minutes, not a few weeks.
Jurisdiction, zoning district and adopted code editions are free for any address. The full report is $99 — no subscription, no account needed to buy.
Even an architect saves an hour a project. Everyone else skips paying one for the first read.
Whether to make the offer. What to tell the client. Whether the project is worth starting, and what it will really take. That’s what this is for.
The addition, the shop, the unit out back — the reason you want this particular property. Find out before earnest money whether the lot will actually take it, instead of discovering the answer after closing when it's no longer a choice.
“Zoned for it” is a shrug. A cited page showing what a buyer could add, and under which rules, is a reason to pay more — and it answers the objection before it's raised rather than after the showing.
Owner or professional, the front end of a project is where money leaks: weeks of research, a scheme drawn against assumptions, a redesign when the assumptions turn out wrong. Getting the constraints first is the cheapest hour in the whole job.
“I checked” and “here is the subsection” are different conversations, and only one of them ends the doubt. Most client hesitation is uncertainty wearing a budget costume.
All of them work, sort of. It’s worth being honest about what each one actually costs you — because the reason most people never get a straight answer isn’t that it’s secret. It’s that every route to it is slow, expensive, or quietly unreliable.
A real, considered answer from someone accountable for it. For a project that's going ahead, this is right and you'll want it eventually.
The catchYou're paying professional rates to find out whether the project is worth starting — at the one moment you don't yet know whether it's worth paying for. So most people put the question off, and decide without it.
The information is public. It is all, technically, there.
The catchYou have to know which code edition the town adopted, which of its local amendments override it, which district your parcel is in, and whether a recorded plan quietly replaces that district entirely. Missing any one of them doesn't feel like missing anything — that's the problem.
Fast, and genuinely fine for getting oriented.
The catchIt answers by blending many sources into one plausible paragraph — which is the wrong method when an authoritative source exists. What comes back is an average of several towns, several districts and several parcels, possibly none of them yours, with the local amendment that actually governs averaged away. It reads exactly as confident either way.
Zoning and building code are two different departments, with two sets of documents that don’t reference each other. Getting both means two enquiries, two waits, and knowing what to ask each of them. We answer both halves together, for one address, in the time it takes to read this.
We resolve the actual parcel, the authority that actually governs it, the district or recorded plan that actually applies, and the code edition and local amendments that authority actually adopted — then answer from those documents and cite the subsection for every line. Nothing is averaged, inferred from a similar town, or smoothed into a plausible paragraph.
Our limits, stated up front: we answer in full for the jurisdictions below and say so plainly when you’re outside them. Where we don’t hold something — a recorded plan we haven’t obtained, a topic we haven’t written yet — the report says exactly that and names the planning department to ask, rather than filling the gap with the nearest plausible number. It’s a fast, cited first read, not a stamped opinion.
The same cited read pays off differently depending on your seat — and it changes which package makes sense. Pick yours.
You live in jurisdiction code and zoning all day, across towns that each do it differently.
How it pays for itselfOne address, one first-pass read with the subsections cited — setbacks, height, coverage, adopted editions, and the overlay or planned-development plan that quietly governs instead of the base district. Replace the afternoon of pulling municipal PDFs across five jurisdictions.
You pull these constantly and bill them through. The 10-pack is the lowest per-report price we offer, and credits don't expire.
See how the pricing works →No accounts to reconcile, no municipal PDFs to hunt. Three steps.
Any address in a covered jurisdiction. No parcel numbers, no municipal-site spelunking. We resolve which authority actually governs it — town or county.
A few questions about the project — an addition, an ADU, a remodel, a new build, a tenant fit-out. The questions change based on your answers, so you're only asked what matters.
Zoning district and the standards that actually govern it, buildable envelope, allowable use, adopted editions, amendments, energy code — each answer with the subsection it came from, and a plain statement wherever we don't hold something.
The free lookup is a complete small answer, not a crippled report — it fully answers “what is this property, and who governs it?” What you pay for is every computed figure and the cited analysis behind it.
We’d rather answer fewer jurisdictions properly than blanket a map thinly. Depth is the whole point.
The service area is Denver north to Fort Collins — stopping at the mountains on the west and reaching a little east of I-25. That edge is deliberate. Mountain jurisdictions each amend the code their own way, and we would rather answer the corridor properly than draw a wide map we can’t stand behind.
Inside that area we answer for 14 of 19 authorities — towns and the unincorporated county land between them, which answers to the county rather than any town.
We only claim a jurisdiction once the depth is really there. Outside the list you can still get a first pass from the model codes, clearly marked as such — and if a report hits something we don’t hold, it says so plainly and names the planning department to ask, rather than guessing.
Codes and adopted editions change, and we track them closely — but you’re in these jurisdictions every day, and you’ll sometimes catch a change before we do. Every report has a one-tap way to flag something that looks out of date or wrong. We genuinely want to hear it: we look right away, and we tell you when we’ve fixed it.
We’d rather you tell us than find out the hard way. A tool about being right has to make it easy to say when it isn’t.
There is no subscription. A report is a fact about a place — you buy it once, it doesn’t expire, and you’re not renting access to something you already read. Buy more at a time if you use it often.
Two different questions. Most people start with the first and only some need the second — and if you buy the report first, it credits in full toward the workspace on that same property.
“What does this property allow?”
You have an address. You may not have a project yet, and you do not need one.
About a minute. No questions asked beyond the address.
“Will MY project work here, and what breaks when I change it?”
You are designing something on that property — an addition, an ADU, a scrape-and-rebuild — and the scheme is going to move several times before it is finished.
Answer as much as you know; run it again every time the design moves.
Because the answer is not where you would look for it, and the obvious answer is often the wrong one. Frederick was serving permitted uses out of an article of its own code it had already repealed. A quarter of Louisville's addresses take their setbacks from a recorded plan that is not in the municipal code at all. Superior keys its standards to a development name that its zoning map does not carry. Colorado's wildfire code reads voluntary in its own front matter — the mandate is in the statute that created it. Denver publishes setbacks by lot width, so the district alone does not answer the question. Each of those produces a confident, wrong answer if you stop at the obvious source, and every one of them is a real thing we hit and had to resolve.
Everything we hold for that address: zoning district and the standards that actually govern it, buildable envelope, allowable use, adopted code editions, local amendments, energy code, and the overlays or planned-development plans most people never find. Cited line by line.
For a project you're weighing across a few parcels, or a couple of months of client questions. Credits don't expire.
For anyone answering property questions week in, week out — listings, bids, feasibility calls. Credits don't expire.
One property, unlimited passes for 12 months. Test a design, change it, test it again — massing, setbacks, height, area, the code that bites. Iterating is the job, so it isn't metered.
Bought the $99 report first? It credits in full toward the workspace on that same property.
A licensed architect and general contractor reads your report or your design and writes back — what he'd worry about, what he'd check next, what the drawing set will need. Added to a report or a workspace, not bought instead of one.
No account needed to buy — pay, get the report, claim it afterwards if you want it kept. Payments handled by Stripe; we never see your card.
Still wondering something? Email joshua@addwell.design — a real person answers.
Everything we hold for that specific property: which authority governs it, its zoning district and whether a recorded planned-development plan or overlay governs instead, your buildable envelope and setbacks, height and coverage limits, allowable use and ADU eligibility, adopted building and energy code editions, local amendments, and the design criteria an engineer needs. Each answer carries the subsection it came from.
No. You buy a report for a property and it’s yours. If you use it often, packs bring the per-report price down and the credits don’t expire. We looked hard at a monthly plan and decided against it: a report is a fact about a place, and charging rent for a fact you already read is the wrong shape.
For any address in a covered jurisdiction: which town or county governs it, its zoning district, whether a planned development or overlay applies, the adopted code editions in force, and your lot drawn to shape. That is a complete answer to “what is this property?” — not a teaser with the numbers blurred out. The computed figures and the cited analysis are the paid product.
No. It’s a cited first-pass research tool that points you at the governing code and zoning fast. It’s meant to speed up your own judgment or your professional’s — not to replace a stamped opinion, a formal zoning determination, or plan review. Verify with the jurisdiction before you design, permit, build, buy or sell.
The northern Front Range — Denver up to Fort Collins, stopping at the mountains on the west. 15 jurisdictions are answered in full today, with 3 more held in part and marked as such, and the map above shows the outlines. We’re expanding through that corridor deliberately. Tell us the jurisdiction you need and it moves up the queue.
We track adoptions, amendments and ordinances that are passed but not yet codified. If something we told you about your property changes, we can tell you — the report regenerates from the same inputs, so we compare the actual answers rather than guessing from an amendment notice. What we can’t promise is to catch every change in every town the moment it happens, and we won’t claim otherwise.
Not to look something up, and not to buy. Pay, get the report, and claim it afterwards if you want it kept and watched.
We don’t sell it, we don’t train AI models on it, and we don’t share it with third parties. We store the addresses you look up so your reports work and so we can tell you if an answer changes; we use it only to run the service for you, and you can delete it. Payments are handled by Stripe — we never see or store your card.
A working architect and general contractor built it for their own Colorado design-build firm, out of real friction with jurisdiction research — then opened it up. It’s made by people who do this work, not a startup guessing at it.
Look one up free and see what comes back. Jurisdiction, district, adopted editions and your lot — no card, no account. The full report is there when you want it.