For professionals
Built for the people who build the town.
If your work depends on knowing the side-yard setback, the last variance the Council granted, and what’s on the planning agenda next Tuesday — you have been handed an information problem the size of a town. Townline reads it for you and answers, with citations.
Three audiences, one tool
Architects & designers
Site-plan-ready answers.
Setbacks, FAR, height limits, design-review requirements. Cited to the code section, not pulled from a rumor or a five-year-old PDF.
- ›What is the side-yard setback for an R-1A lot?
- ›What does the ASCC require for exterior materials?
- ›What is the maximum FAR for a hillside parcel?
Builders & contractors
Permit history, decoded.
What’s been built, what was conditioned, what was denied. Searchable across every project on the property and across the town.
- ›What conditions were attached to the last variance on this street?
- ›Which permits were issued for 1450 Alpine Road since 2020?
- ›What grading-permit conditions are typical for sloped lots here?
Real estate agents
Disclose with confidence.
Pending applications, drainage easements, planning items in motion. The kind of thing that otherwise shows up at escrow.
- ›Is there an active planning application on this parcel?
- ›Has the Council discussed downzoning this neighborhood?
- ›Are there pending wildfire ordinances that affect this listing?
Why the status quo breaks
The information is public. Finding it isn’t.
Email the planner
Two-day wait, then "see page 47"
Cited section, full text, in-line
Skim a 200-page staff report
Miss the conditioned-use clause
Ask the question; the answer cites the paragraph
Call the town and leave a voicemail
Voicemail jail, callbacks days later
Same documents, 24/7, with sources you can verify
Trust word-of-mouth on what the council "usually" allows
Last year’s precedent quietly changed
The actual decision history, searchable
The non-negotiable
Every answer is cited.
We do not summarise into ambiguity. Every claim links to the source document — the section of the municipal code, the page of the staff report, the minute of the council meeting. If we cannot cite it, we will not say it. That is the rule the system runs on.
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No seat fees, no contracts, no per-firm pricing. If it works for one architect, it works for the firm — same price.