UrbanForm is zoning de-coded.

Navigating the zoning code is costly, time-consuming, and error-prone.

UrbanForm manages the process of acquiring zoning information, giving you the information you need in seconds, not weeks.

It's technology for better buildings, cities, and environments.

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Uses AI to show you only the relevant regulations

Mobile or desktop with no software to download

Easy online map interface

Instant Detailed Reports

Our mission:
to support and empower the people trying to make better buildings, cities, and environments

UrbanForm was built by architects and engineers to provide instant, easy access to what was one of the most complex, confusing, and inaccessible aspects of building design and development—the zoning.

Skip the government websites, the map and document search, text interpretation, reference cross-checking, CAD-drafting, and phone calls to the building department. Just use UrbanForm and get your project started right away with all the info you need.

Focus on design, communication, and problem-solving, not on zoning research

Win projects by responding instantly and knowledgeably to client inquiries

Focus workon design thinking and problem-solving

Avoid errors and omissions that can jeopardize projects and client relationships

How UrbanForm works

UrbanForm manages the process of sourcing, parsing, calculating, and documenting the relevant zoning regulations and building information—replacing a hodgepodge of manual and analog processes with one digital process.

Automatically generated, clickable links to the source documents save hours of text searching and copy-pasting, allowing easy verification and deeper research.

Search by address or by interactive map

Accessible from any web browser

No software to download

Mobile friendly

Review the applied zoning

FAR

Height limits

Setbacks

Lot coverage

All adjustments from overlays, adjacencies, and other location-based dependencies applied

Resulting MaxBuild statistics

Download Reports instantly

PDF format

Vector site maps

Satellite imagery

All detailed zoning information

Useful for valuation, feasibility, coordination, and collaboration

Search, filter, and sort

Search, filter, and sort by:

zone designation

maximum gross square footage allowed

minimum height limits

allowable uses

lot dimensions

lot type (such as corner, thru, etc.)

many other parameters

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UrbanForm Portland

Portland

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UrbanForm Seattle

Seattle

(Q4 2022)

(coming soon)

UrbanForm San Diego

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Accurate zoning information, instantly available, to facilitate development, design, and construction work

Every single construction project in the US requires accurate zoning information: for project development and feasibility, architecture and design, and permitting and compliance.

Previously, this information required hours-to-weeks worth of document discovery, interpretation, reference-checks, and CAD drafting. Now, with UrbanForm, this same information can be obtained instantly.

This allows the people who build our buildings and cities to get started faster, manage their projects better, spend less time reading arcane documents, and think more creatively about the future of our built environment.