You just went under contract on a mixed-use site in a submarket you haven’t worked before. The LOI is signed, the earnest money is wired, and now the due diligence clock is running. First question everyone asks: what can you actually build here? Zone classification, permitted uses, height limits, setbacks, parking ratios. The answers are buried across the municipal code, the zoning map, and whatever the city’s planning portal decided to publish online. You know where to find it. You’ve done it before. The problem is that pulling a clean, one-page zoning summary takes 30 minutes when you do it properly: cross-referencing the code, checking overlays, confirming parking requirements, and writing it up in a format your IC committee or lender can actually use. When you have three deals in diligence at once, that 30 minutes keeps getting bumped to tomorrow. That’s exactly what this task is built to fix. due diligence 5 min Draft Zoning Due Diligence Memo One-page zoning due diligence memo as Word doc or in-chat, covering zone classification, permitted uses, development controls, parking, and notable items, tailored to a proposed use if provided. Who It’s For CRE professionals who need a polished zoning memo for an IC package, lender submission, or deal screening. What You Get Back A one-page zoning due diligence memo covering zone classification, permitted uses, development controls, parking requirements, and notable items. Why It Matters Compresses 30 minutes of manual zoning research and memo writing into 5 minutes, so no deal moves forward without a proper zoning read. Task Inputs Property Address Required Full street address of the subject property (e.g., 1401 Brickell Ave, Miami, FL 33131) Output Format Required Choose how you'd like to receive the memo Proposed Use Optional If you have a specific use in mind (e.g., 200-unit multifamily, boutique hotel), enter it here. The memo will flag whether that use is permitted as-of-right or requires conditional approval. Leave blank for a general zoning overview. Skills Used Zoning Due Diligence Memo Word Document Style Guide v2 Tools Used Zoning Details Toolkit Precisely Property Details Research Assistant (Web Research) What This Task Does You give the task a property address and choose your output format: Word document or in-chat delivery. If you have a proposed use in mind (200-unit multifamily, boutique hotel, 50,000 SF office), you add that too. That’s the entire setup. From there, the Market Research Associate AI Coworker fires four data calls in parallel: zoning classification and development controls from the Zoning Details Toolkit, parking requirements from the same toolkit, parcel-level property attributes from Precisely, and web research on the specific site covering existing improvements, recent entitlements, overlays, and comparable developments on nearby parcels. It reconciles any conflicts across sources using a strict priority hierarchy, then drafts a one-page memo per the firm’s Zoning Due Diligence Memo skill. If you provided a proposed use, the entire memo is tailored to that use: whether it’s permitted as-of-right, conditional, or prohibited, and what constraints apply to your specific program. The whole process takes roughly 5 minutes of your time. The AI does the rest. Who This Task Is For Zoning is the first filter on every development and acquisition deal. If the use doesn’t work, nothing else matters. But writing a clean zoning summary that’s ready for a memo or a lender package takes real time, and it’s usually the deliverable that gets deprioritized when diligence gets busy. This task is built for: Acquisitions teams who need a zoning section for an IC memo or investment summary before the next committee meeting Development associates who are screening multiple sites and need a fast, consistent zoning read on each one before committing to deeper feasibility Brokers and advisors who want a zoning summary for a pitch deck, listing package, or client deliverable without spending half a morning in the municipal code Capital markets and lending teams who need a zoning overview for a loan package or borrower due diligence submission In short: if you already have a property address, this task gives you a polished zoning memo. Why It Matters Zoning is not optional due diligence. It’s the baseline. Every acquisition, every development feasibility, every lender package requires a clear answer to “what can be built here, and under what constraints?” The information is public, but assembling it into something usable requires reading the code, checking overlays, confirming parking ratios, and writing it up in a format that doesn’t require the reader to do their own research. You already know this. Every CRE professional who has ever typed a municipal code URL into a browser knows this. The problem is not that zoning research is hard. It’s that doing it