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UrbanForm provides instant access to complex zoning data through a user-friendly platform and developer-friendly API. Their tools unlock clarity in local land use regulations, helping streamline development, promote housing equity, and support public-sector decision-making. | UrbanForm provides instant access to complex zoning data through a user-friendly platform and developer-friendly API. Their tools unlock clarity in local land use regulations, helping streamline development, promote housing equity, and support public-sector decision-making. | ||
Latest revision as of 23:54, June 12, 2025
- Members
UrbanForm is a civic tech company focused on making zoning information accessible, transparent, and actionable through a powerful data platform and API, empowering developers, cities, and advocates with instant land use intelligence.
Details
- Overview
UrbanForm provides instant access to complex zoning data through a user-friendly platform and developer-friendly API. Their tools unlock clarity in local land use regulations, helping streamline development, promote housing equity, and support public-sector decision-making.
- Value Proposition
- Accessibility: Translates dense zoning codes into visual, searchable, and interpretable data
- Clarity: Helps users understand what’s allowed, where, and why—down to individual parcels
- Confidence: Supports faster decisions by cities, architects, and developers with clean, reliable information
- Key Products
- UrbanForm Platform: Interactive zoning maps and datasets for city planners, developers, and advocates
- Zoning API: Enables software platforms to incorporate real-time zoning intelligence into permitting and planning tools
- Land Use Intelligence: Dynamic indicators on development potential, density, setbacks, parking, FAR, and more
- Target Users
- Housing developers evaluating site feasibility
- City agencies modernizing land use planning
- Advocacy groups promoting equitable housing policy
- Civic software vendors integrating zoning data into workflows
- Impact
- Simplifies zoning for over 60 million Americans through intuitive digital access
- Accelerates affordable housing development by removing early-stage uncertainty
- Supports public agencies with insights into how zoning affects housing production