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Can you build it here? 66 districts, answered.

Zoning codes answer two different questions and most tools only ask the second one. May I build this use at all? comes before how big may I build it? — and an envelope computed on a district where the use is prohibited is a confident wrong answer. These pages answer both, from the ordinance of record, with the section cited beside every verdict.

Jurisdictions

unincorporated Maricopa County AZ

21 base districts · 4 uses · self-storage allowed in 5

Maricopa County AZ (unincorporated). Transcribed from the ordinance of record with a provenance record: source document, adoption and retrieval dates, file hash and an uncertainty log.

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City of Mesa AZ

45 base districts · 6 uses · self-storage allowed in 7

City of Mesa AZ. Transcribed from the ordinance of record with a provenance record: source document, adoption and retrieval dates, file hash and an uncertainty log.

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What is deliberately not here

Lyra bundles headline zoning approximations for several large metros so the desktop app's “type a zone, get an envelope” flow works out of the box. Those tables are hand-seeded approximations that omit overlays, contextual rules and height districts, and they answer no use question at all. Publishing them as search answers would assert something the data does not support, so they are not published here:

  • chicago
  • los-angeles
  • nyc
  • san-francisco

A metro appears above only when it carries a transcribed use-permissions.csv and a PROVENANCE.md.

How to read these pages

  • Base district only. No page here checks overlay geometry, recorded plan conditions, rezoning stipulations or parcel shape. Each metro's page quotes its own overlay caveat, and in both jurisdictions published here an overlay can invert an answer outright.
  • A missing row is unknown, not a no. Where the transcription carries no row for a district and use, the page says so.
  • Conditional is not a yes. Where a use needs a Plan of Development or a Council Use Permit, the page names the body that grants it — that is a schedule and a political risk, not a formality.
  • Confidence is published. Every verdict carries the transcription confidence recorded when it was read out of the code.
  • None of this is a Zoning Verification Letter. Verify with the planning department before you spend money.