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Source-cited, address-level answers on zoning, site constraints, permitting and what can be built.
Remote server: your requests and data go to buildability.us. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http buildability https://buildability.us/api/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
what_can_i_build — Whether a project can be built on a US property (a backyard home or ADU, an addition, a garage or shed, a fence, a new home, or a lot split)score_address — The Buildability Score for any US street address, from live federal data (FEMA flood, USGS seismic, USDA soil, EPA radon, USFS wildfire, OSMenvelope — What a lot can hold by right, from the letter of its zoning code applied to the real parcel outline: units, buildable floor area, height, floutcomes — Permit outcomes on record for a zoning district (counts by outcome: built, permitted, denied, stalled, withdrawn) from the jurisdiction's opflood_zone — The FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer zone at a US street address, read at the address point: zone, whether it is a Special Flood Hazard Areazoning_district — The dimensional standards the Buildability Zoning Atlas has read for one zoning district (height, stories, dwelling units, lot size, width, atlas_coverage — Which cities and zoning districts the Buildability Zoning Atlas has read and publishes, with each city's hub page, its districts and the newsite_briefing — Public records around a US street address: U.S. Drought Monitor status at the point; with a key, National Register of Historic Places listincost_ranges — What new construction costs, from U.S. government series only. With `state`: the middle half (25th to 75th percentile) of contract price persearch — Searches Buildability's public pages: Zoning Atlas district pages (cited dimensional standards), city zoning source packs, the canonical profetch — Returns one page found by search, by its `id`, as text with its canonical URL and `read_date`: the date on its record (when the code or sourcompare_addresses — One row per US street address, in the order given (never sorted by Score): Buildability Score, band, the landmine caps that bound it, FEMA fNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.