A continuously captured, structured extraction of every Dallas

A continuously captured, structured extraction of every Dallas–Fort Worth Planning & Zoning agenda packet: 3,862 zoning cases across 99 municipalities with 152 live cases currently moving through agendas. Each case is parsed out of 200-page municipal PDFs into location, acreage, current and requested zoning, petitioner or owner, hearing date and staff recommendation, covering rezonings, specific-use permits, plats, variances and planned-development amendments. Two properties make this qualitatively different from permit feeds: capture happens hours after a packet posts and days before the hearing, so the record exists pre-decision; and the pipeline tracks a case through continuances and council movement, producing a full lifecycle trajectory rather than a single event. Purpose-built adapters exist per municipal platform (Legistar, CivicClerk, Granicus, Municode, CivicPlus, PrimeGov, DestinyHosted) plus source-status tracking recording when each city portal was last read. Delivered as JSON over an API and an MCP server exposing search_cases, get_petitioner_history, get_case and list_municipalities.

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Industry: Real Estate ServicesFinancial Exchanges & Data
Instruments: equities
Categories: AlternativeGeospatialSentiment
Regions: US
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Type: not stated
Format: Multimodal — source municipal agenda PDFs captured as documents, plus structured JSON records over REST and an MCP server, a private tokenized RSS feed, Slack and Zapier delivery; petitioner history is queryable as a first-class object
Volume: 3,862 structured zoning cases across 99 DFW cities, plus 152 live cases in progress, plus every captured source packet retained as a linked PDF. A second metro (Raleigh) is live on its own subdomain, so the multi-metro archive is growing by full-market increments. Zoning cases are far lower volume than permits by nature — this is a case-level not transaction-level corpus — but each case carries a full document plus structured extraction plus a tracked outcome, so bytes and label value per record are both high. Annual DFW case flow plausibly in the low thousands, bounded by agenda frequency across 99 municipalities.
Users: ~30-300 subscribers (inferred: $599 per month per metro and a $999 per month Corporate plan covering all metros for up to 10 users, sold into a defined professional audience of CRE developers, land brokers and acquisition managers, with no published user count; the price point excludes a mass market and bounds the base in the low hundreds)
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Growth: Active — coverage expanded from 96 to 99 DFW cities between the indexed description and the live dashboard, a second metro is live on raleigh.zoningfirehose.com, walkthrough media is dated September 2026, and adding a requested city is described as a quick configuration change rather than an engineering project, which makes expansion cheap and fast
Launched: ~2024-2026 (inferred; no founding date or copyright year appears on the fetched pages). Bounded by association and format: the privacy page identifies the operator as the same person behind WARN Firehose, indicating a second product from an existing one-person operation, and the September 2026 dated walkthrough plus a mature 96-city adapter estate suggest a launch in roughly 2025 or early 2026 rather than earlier.
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