Plain-language answers from a city’s adopted code, fee schedule, plans and parcel records — with the section or table they came from.
Yes, a duplex is permitted with conditions in the MD-17 district.
| Standard | MD-17 |
|---|---|
| Max density | 17 units / acre |
Site-plan review runs $250 + $20 per 1,000 sq ft of floor area.
Generic AI guesses. Spoonbill cites. Every answer is drawn only from the city’s adopted code, fee schedule, and plans — traceable to the section and the date it took effect.
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Every planner on staff asks in plain language and gets the section, the table and the effective date — the same answer, every time, defensible in the public record.
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Plain-language answers with the section, table or plan they came from, kept current as the code changes.
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Every answer is built only from the city's adopted documents, and each one links straight to the source: the exact section, and the effective date of the document it comes from, so you can confirm it in a click. Spoonbill doesn't draw on the open web or outside knowledge; if the answer isn't in the documents, it tells you rather than filling the gap. You're never taking its word for it, because you're taken to the passage it came from.
Two groups who ask the same questions of the same documents. Developers, brokers and their consultants use it to know what a site allows before they commit to it. Planning departments use it to answer counter questions in seconds with a citation they can defend. Both read the same adopted code, so a developer gets the answer the city itself would give.
Automated watchers monitor each city's published sources for changes. When an ordinance, fee, or plan is updated, Spoonbill wipes the old index and rebuilds it from the current documents, so what you search always mirrors what's actually adopted, with no superseded language left behind. The refresh runs on its own; there's nothing to re-upload or maintain.
Keyword search finds documents that contain a word and leaves you to read them. Spoonbill answers the actual question across all of them at once, following cross-references, pulling the right number out of a fee table, and citing the specific section. You get the answer and its source, not a stack of PDFs to comb through.
No. Your questions, the sites you look at, and your account information are never sold and never used to train shared or third-party models. Spoonbill only searches the adopted public documents to answer your questions.
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