For Content Publishers
Bring your readers to the zoning record
ZoneWire reads land-use hearings across 160+ markets in 50 states and turns each one into a structured, permanent record: what the body decided, the vote, and the conditions. All of it is free to link, quote, and embed, so a blog, a newsletter, or a civic app can show its audience what happened without rewatching the hearing.
Why share the zoning record
Zoning decisions deserve an audience
Rezonings, variances, and site plans reshape a neighborhood, and most of them are decided in a room almost nobody watches. Every reader you point at the record is one more person who knows what their board actually did.
One link carries the whole decision
Each ZoneWire meeting page holds the item, the outcome, the vote, and any conditions, traceable to the official recording. You can write two sentences and let the link carry the rest.
Free to read, free to share
Meeting pages, decision records, and county feeds are open to everyone, with no account and no paywall. Whoever you send stays informed whether or not they ever sign up.
Free tools for publishers
Three ways to keep local zoning in front of your audience without adding work to your week. Each one is free and needs no account.
County RSS and JSON feeds
Subscribe to any county and get each new decision as a dated sentence that links back to the meeting record. Drop it straight into your site or your reading pipeline.
Feed directoryEmbeddable decisions widget
Put a live list of recent decisions for one county on your page. It refreshes on its own, and each row links readers to the full meeting page.
Embed toolsNewsletter digest
Generate a copy-paste digest for a county with inline links on every fact. Works in email, Substack, Ghost, and any rich-text editor.
Digest generatorHow to link
Link to the meeting page that carries the decision you are writing about. Every decision row has a copy-link button that drops your reader on the exact item, and the URL keeps working after the agenda rotates off the government site.
https://www.zonewire.co/meetings/<county>/<meeting-id>A plain inline link is enough, and no particular credit format is required. County hubs such as any market in the directory work the same way when you want to send readers to a whole jurisdiction rather than one item.
Built for anyone publishing local coverage
Formal or informal, registered outlet or one person with a mailing list. If you write about a place, the zoning record belongs in it.
- Hyperlocal newsletters recapping what the board did last night
- Community blogs and neighborhood association sites
- Civic technology apps that surface public decisions
- Housing and land-use advocacy publications
- Real estate news sites and market reports
Facts you can cite
Beyond individual decisions, ZoneWire publishes aggregates you can quote with a date window and a denominator: approval, denial, and continuance rates by county, and monthly zoning activity by market. Coverage and depth vary by jurisdiction, and every county page states what has been monitored.
Reporting a story rather than sharing one? ZoneWire for journalists covers the methodology, the update cadence, and how to attribute the record.
Need to go deeper than the public record?
Everything on ZoneWire is free to link, quote, and embed. If your reporting or your product calls for more, such as meeting audio clips, bulk exports, historical archives, or custom feeds across our 160+ markets, we license the underlying data. Tell us what you are working on at support@zonewire.co and we will find the right fit.
Want help setting up a feed or a widget?
We are glad to help publishers wire up county feeds, embed the decisions widget, or build a recurring digest for their market. Email support@zonewire.co.