Reports and monitoring
Every deal gets a Phase I, a survey and a title commitment before anyone signs off. The question that decides whether any of it matters, whether this board will approve what you want to build and on what terms, usually gets a phone call and a hunch. These reports read the public record instead, and cite every claim to a meeting and a date.
An earnest money deposit about to go non-refundable. Months of carry on a rezoning that was never going to clear. A site plan redrawn around conditions you could have read in last year's minutes.
If the record says walk, you want to hear it in week one, not month nine.
Every report checks that we hold enough of the record to answer your question before checkout. If the record is too thin, the page tells you so and you do not pay.
Monitoring · $20 and $50 tiers for more
Tell us the municipalities and the terms you care about. We watch every council, planning and board meeting and email you as soon as a matching action reaches our database. Each case is identified and summarised, so you know what moved and how it resolved without reading the minutes.
Know who you are talking to before Tuesday night
Pick a municipality and a council member. We build a profile from the public record: what they speak to, how they lean by topic, their activity on decided items, and what they have said on the record.
The conditions tell you what was approved. This tells you how it got there
Buying or building on an approved project? Enter the case and we reconstruct the backstory: the deliberation, the community concerns, and what staff and the board expected on the record but never wrote into a condition.
Know how the town votes on what you build
Pick a municipality and a use type. We screen its recent record for the political climate on that use: how the boards treated similar requests, approvals against denials, and the objections that keep coming up.
The precedent file for your rezoning narrative
Pick a use type and your comp set of municipalities. We pull every comparable rezoning and site plan decision over the lookback window: how each was decided, the vote counts, the conditions imposed, and the objections that recurred.
Which towns actually have momentum on your use
Pick a use type, such as EV charging, solar and storage, data centers, warehousing, truck fueling or cold storage, and a geography. We rank every covered municipality in scope by real political momentum: money and code activity, approvals against denials, and recurring hostility or moratorium risk.
If your use is permitted by right and the site plan is administrative, the board's politics will not decide your deal, and you do not need a report.
If the record comes back mixed, or you need a full diligence read with the zoning code, a recommendation you can take to your investment committee, or someone at the podium, that is YES, our consulting practice.
And if the question is not whether your own project clears but which projects are coming, that is a different list. The Development Application Tracker lists the new development applications published in the counties you choose.
A record-based profile of one elected official in one municipality: the land use topics they speak to, how they lean by topic, their activity on decided items, and notable statements. Every claim is cited to a meeting and a date. It costs $79.
The approval conditions say what a project was allowed to do. A Project Political History report explains how it got approved: the deliberation, the community concerns, and the expectations staff and the board raised on the record but never wrote into a condition. It costs $100.
Every report checks coverage for your question before checkout, so if the record is too thin to answer it, you find out before you pay. You can also ask us to add a municipality through the contact form.
No. KnowToYes reports reconstruct the public meeting record and cite it. They are not legal advice, a zoning opinion, or a prediction of any outcome. For a diligence read with the zoning code and a recommendation, work with YES.