Permit Check

See What Your Project Needs Before You Spend a Dollar

Describe the project and the property. GovCodex resolves the parcel, the governing authorities, the district standards, the overlays and the permit path — and labels the evidence behind every line.

State

Running a check is free and needs no account. Data-backed coverage today: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Maryland.

READYAWAITING INPUT
STREETBUILDABLE ENVELOPEFRONT SETBACK LINEEXISTING STRUCTURESIDE SETBACKILLUSTRATION · NOT YOUR PARCEL

Enter a project and an address, then run the check. Nothing is saved until you create a project.

What a Permit Check Resolves

01The parcel, not the pinYour address is matched to a county parcel record with geometry, area and frontage. Where no such record exists, the result says so instead of drawing a box around a geocode.
02Every authority in playZoning, building, sanitary and environmental review are often different offices. Each is resolved per regulatory function, not per city name.
03Rules met by geometryDistrict standards and overlays are measured against the footprint you described, so conflicts show up as distances rather than as warnings.
04A permit path you can checkPermits are ordered with the reviewing authority and the required documents, and each finding carries the evidence tier behind it — cited ordinance, catalog default, or gap.

Permit Check Questions

A permit check resolves an address to a parcel, identifies the governing authorities, applies the zoning district standards and overlays, measures your proposed structure against the buildable envelope, and returns the permits required in the order they are filed.