Entitlement intelligence · from first look to final approval
Navius knows your local government's codes, decisions, agendas, permits and procedures, and tells you what is allowed on your site, which boards you will face, what they have asked of similar projects, and how long it took them.
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Public warehousing: conditional in Business Park (BP), permitted in light and heavy industrial, not listed in General Business (GB).
2,825 Technical Review Committee letters held, August 2017 to September 2026.
372 decided hearings held, 2017 to 2026.
Can a warehouse go on a lot zoned General Business?
Not as zoned. Charleston's use table makes warehousing conditional in Business Park and permitted in light and heavy industrial, so the lot needs one of those districts.
Use table, Sec. 54-207
Examples from City of Charleston public records.
How it works
Every local government keeps a record of what it decides: its zoning code and maps, the agendas and minutes of its boards, staff reports, permits and the decisions on them. Navius gathers that record and reads it, so it can be searched and counted.
An address, a parcel, or the survey and drawings you already have. Navius ties them to the rules and the history that apply to that piece of land.
Which approvals the project needs and which boards decide them, how often requests like it have been approved and how long they took, and how much can really be built. Every finding links to the page of the record that says so, and where the record is silent, Navius says that too.
Why it matters
A condition nobody saw coming. A third round of review. A board you did not know you would face. Every month in review is a month of carrying costs, and the answers that would have avoided it were already on the record, buried in years of agendas, staff reports, review comments and decisions spread across a dozen boards and portals.
What you get
Zoning, overlays and the uses the code permits, read from the ordinance itself and tied to your parcel.
City of CharlestonPublic warehousing is a conditional use in the Business Park district, permitted in light and heavy industrial, and not listed in general business. Zoning ordinance, Table of Permitted Uses; §54-207
Which boards will review your project, in what order, and how long each step has actually taken for projects like it.
City of CharlestonWe hold the Technical Review Committee's 6,153 review rounds on 2,177 applications, 2013 to 2026. Technical Review Committee record, 2013–2026
The conditions, revisions and objections similar projects faced, so you can answer them before anyone asks.
City of CharlestonWe hold 2,825 site plan review letters from the Technical Review Committee, August 2017 to September 2026. Technical Review Committee letters, 2017–2026
A look inside
A Navius report brings the whole record for a site into one place: the rules that apply, the boards in the way, and what happened to the projects that went before. Nothing in it is a guess. Each finding links to the document and page that says so, and where the record is silent, the report says that too.
The full report runs to dozens of cited findings. Request a demo to see one for your site.
The alternative
A consultant or land-use attorney pulls the records by hand, site by site, over weeks, and still misses what is buried in scanned files and portals. Or you learn it in review, one round at a time.
The whole record for your site, read and cited, before you commit to the land, the design or the schedule.