The earliest signal that a project is coming. Shovels Decisions turns city council agendas, planning commission meetings, and meeting minutes into structured records of rezonings, entitlements, and land use decisions.
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We track agendas and official meeting minutes from city councils and planning boards. Sourced directly from jurisdictions, not third-party aggregators.
Our language models turn long meeting documents into structured records: the decision, the vote, the parties, and the location.
Decisions link to permits, properties, and jurisdictions, so you can follow a project from first council mention to certificate of occupancy.
New decisions arrive with every twice-monthly update, and jurisdiction coverage grows each month toward our full permit footprint.
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By the time a permit is filed, building plans are likely locked. Decisions get you into the conversation while the project is still being planned.
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Rezonings and infrastructure approvals show where cities are growing, months before construction data catches up.
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Density changes, land entitlements, and plat approvals move land values before anything is built. See them the moment they're decided.
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Decisions connect to permits and jurisdictions, so one project can be tracked from first city council mention to final certificate of occupancy.
Explore, filter, and export permit, contractor, and decision data in our self-serve web app.
Build construction intelligence into your product, CRM, or internal tools with our REST API.
Get the full dataset as parquet files or table shares in Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery.
We source data from thousands of jurisdictions online and offline through public records. New jurisdictions are added continuously based on market trends & customer demand, with coverage spanning all major metros and expanding rural markets.
Decisions link across datasets, so you can follow a project from the first council mention through permits, properties, and the people involved.
They're the actions a city council or planning board takes before construction can start: rezonings, plat approvals, annexations, variances, and infrastructure decisions. Shovels extracts them from official agendas and meeting minutes and turns them into structured, searchable records.
Permits document construction that's already been decided. Decisions come first: the rezoning, the planning sign-off, the demolition approval. If you need to reach a project before ground breaks, decisions get you there months earlier.
Official agendas and meeting minutes published by city councils and planning boards. We create a record once the minutes are posted, so every decision reflects the official record. Shovels is a first-party provider: we collect, enrich, and offer the data without brokering it from third-party sources.
Category and subcategory, previous and new zoning designations, the parties involved (owner, applicant, developer, architect, engineer), project size and value, location, an AI-written summary of why it matters, and a link to the source document. Full list in the data dictionary.
Yes. When applicable, decisions are linked to properties, jurisdictions, and the permits that follow, so you can track a project from first council mention to certificate of occupancy.
Three ways: search and export in Shovels Online, integrate the Shovels API, or license the full dataset via Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery. The free trial includes decision search, no credit card required.
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