Zoning Review in 70 Seconds.

Zone Genie automates zoning and permit compliance review for municipal planning departments — cutting weeks of manual staff time to minutes per application. Every finding cited. Every judgment call flagged for a human.

311+
Real permit applications benchmarked against the Genie pipeline
<70s
Median time per compliance review
7×
Code-section citations per review, on average

How it works

Everything a planner checks, done automatically.

Zone Genie reads the application, pulls the parcel, references your zoning code, and returns a complete review in under 70 seconds. The output is structured for staff — not a raw code dump.

01

Built for the queue

Fits the workflow your department already has. Applicants submit through your portal. Genie runs the review. Staff review structured output — not a raw code dump.

02

Validated, not vibes

Every finding is traceable to a specific code section. Genie cites its source. Staff can verify in seconds — and residents get answers that hold up at appeal.

03

Trustworthy by design

Genie flags what it cannot determine. No hallucinated approvals. When something requires human judgment — variance requests, edge cases — it says so clearly.

The time math

What happens to the hours your staff used to spend.

A standard zoning review — pulling the parcel, reading the district code, checking setbacks, flagging use compliance — takes a skilled planner 1 to 1.5 hours per application. Zone Genie does the same work in under 70 seconds.

Review step breakdown
StepManualGenie
Parcel & zoning lookup~5 min<5 sec
District code retrieval~15 minAutomatic
Setback & dimensional check~5 minAutomatic
Use compliance review15–40 minAutomatic
Findings writeup~25 minAutomatic
Total per application1–1.5 hours<70 seconds

What planners see

A complete review. Cited. Ready in under a minute.

This is what your staff opens after Genie runs. Each finding traces to a code section. The one judgment call — a 3-foot rear setback shortfall — is surfaced with adjacent-parcel precedent.

zone-genie.app / permits / PA-2026-0481
PA-2026-0481

847 Maple Ave

Single-family addition · Henderson Construction
Reviewed in 64s
Lot coverage§ 21-204.3
28.4% of lot · max 35%
Front setback§ 21-204.5(a)
25′ actual · 20′ required
Side setbacks§ 21-204.5(b)
8′ / 9′ · 5′ required
Rear setback§ 21-204.5(c)
12′ actual · 15′ required — variance request needed
Use compliance§ 21-102
Single-family residential — permitted
Height§ 21-204.7
24′ actual · 35′ max

Where it fits

Built for the work your department actually does.

Residential additions & ADUs

The bread-and-butter of a planning queue. Setbacks, lot coverage, height, use compliance — checked against your code in seconds, every time, identical standards across every reviewer.

Fence & accessory structure permits

The high-volume permits that swamp staff time. Genie handles the routine reviews so your planners stay on the work that needs judgment.

Commercial signs & small projects

Sign ordinance, dimensional checks, district overlays — all the rules that exist only in the code books, applied consistently across applicants.

Pre-application screening

Drop a sketch and an address; Genie tells the applicant what the code says before they submit. Fewer rejected packets. Fewer angry residents.

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See it on your city's data.

We'll walk through a live review using your zoning code and real permit applications from your queue — so you can see exactly what your staff gets back. No pitch deck. Just the product.

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