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Zoning approval rates by county

How often local boards approve, deny, or continue land-use requests, measured from the decisions on the public record. Covering July 2024 to July 2026.

82 counties, 6,040 decided decisions. Updated daily. Every county below clears a floor of 20 decided decisions.

Highest approval rates

  1. 1Huntsville, AL100%
  2. 2Livonia, MI100%
  3. 3Seattle, WA100%
  4. 4San Diego County, CA100%
  5. 5Westchester County, NY100%

Highest denial rates

  1. 1Albuquerque, NM40%
  2. 2Los Angeles, CA25%
  3. 3Memphis, TN22%
  4. 4Hanover County, VA19%
  5. 5Salt Lake City, UT16%

Most active counties

  1. 1San Antonio, TX390
  2. 2Boston, MA308
  3. 3Nashville-Davidson County, TN267
  4. 4Tulsa, OK242
  5. 5Houston, TX237

Every covered county

Sort by any column. Percentages are shares of decided decisions from July 2024 to July 2026. Use Copy stat to grab a ready-to-cite sentence with the county, the number, and the date range.

Cross-county land-use approval, denial, and continuance rates, sortable by column
CountyDecisions (n) ↓ApprovedDeniedContinued
San Antonio, TX39074%8%18%
Boston, MA30892%3%6%
Nashville-Davidson County, TN26777%5%18%
Tulsa, OK24287%4%10%
Houston, TX23777%2%21%
Louisville, KY22686%4%9%
Clark County, NV20583%11%6%
Las Vegas, NV18882%7%11%
Chicago, IL18097%0%3%
Orange County, FL16290%6%5%
San Francisco, CA15981%9%11%
Jacksonville, FL15792%2%6%
Bismarck, ND15193%5%2%
Columbus, OH13990%2%8%
Cobb County, GA12159%9%32%
Jersey City, NJ11467%9%25%
San Jose, CA9292%3%4%
Hawaii County, HI8786%1%13%
Atlanta, GA7962%8%30%
Norwalk, CT7864%4%32%
Lancaster County, SC7881%13%6%
Stafford County, VA7687%4%9%
Milwaukee, WI7597%0%3%
Polk County, FL7392%7%1%
Chesterfield County, VA6882%7%10%
Springfield, MO6787%7%6%
Mobile, AL6679%6%15%
Hillsborough County, FL6583%5%12%
Los Angeles, CA6367%25%8%
Charlotte, NC6093%5%2%
Fort Worth, TX6067%12%22%
St. Lucie County, FL5560%4%36%
Austin, TX5463%4%33%
Denver, CO5485%2%13%
Hanover County, VA5364%19%17%
Fairfax County, VA5290%0%10%
Miami, FL5190%2%8%
Maricopa County, AZ4885%4%10%
Allentown, PA4871%10%19%
Loudoun County, VA4680%2%17%
Long Beach, CA4495%2%2%
Santa Clara, CA4384%5%12%
Lake County, FL4283%10%7%
Miami-Dade County, FL4065%5%30%
Huntsville, AL40100%0%0%
Franklin, TN3889%5%5%
St. Joseph County, IN3889%3%8%
Douglas County, CO3789%3%8%
Leander, TX3795%3%3%
Green Bay, WI3792%5%3%
Prince George's County, MD3681%8%11%
Broward County, FL3580%6%14%
Overland Park, KS3594%0%6%
Spotsylvania County, VA3471%9%21%
Riverside County, CA3397%0%3%
Dallas, TX3272%13%16%
Colleyville, TX3288%6%6%
Salt Lake City, UT3177%16%6%
Laramie County, WY3080%0%20%
Prince William County, VA2990%3%7%
Maui County, HI2871%0%29%
Mansfield, TX2882%14%4%
Mesa, AZ2796%0%4%
Missoula County, MT2793%0%7%
Baltimore, MD2692%0%8%
Livonia, MI26100%0%0%
Seattle, WA26100%0%0%
Coweta County, GA2584%8%8%
Martin County, FL2492%4%4%
San Diego, CA2496%4%0%
College Station, TX2496%4%0%
Pinellas County, FL2396%4%0%
Memphis, TN2378%22%0%
New Albany, OH2374%0%26%
San Diego County, CA22100%0%0%
Fontana, CA2291%9%0%
Napa County, CA2277%0%23%
Pueblo County, CO2291%0%9%
Minnehaha County, SD2195%0%5%
Albuquerque, NM2055%40%5%
Westchester County, NY20100%0%0%
Greenville, SC2090%5%5%
Download all counties (CSV)Per county: append ?county=slug to the CSV link.

How we count

Every rate comes from the official record. We capture public city council, county commission, and planning board meetings, transcribe the audio, and pull the land-use decisions and their outcomes. Each decision links back to the meeting it came from, so you can check it against the source.

A decision counts once, in one of three buckets: approved (including approvals with conditions), denied, or continued (tabled, deferred, or continued to a later date). Approval rate is approvals divided by all three. Withdrawn items are left out, since pulling a request is not a board decision on the merits. General board business that is not land use, such as proclamations, grants, and contracts, is excluded.

The window runs July 2024 to July 2026. A county appears only after it reaches 20 decided decisions in that window, so a thin sample never turns into a headline rate. The full data is available as CSV above, and the same numbers feed each county page and our machine-readable summary.

Counties below the 20-decision floor (57)

We track these counties but hold their rate until the sample is large enough to report honestly: Archuleta County, CO; Bexar County, TX; Box Elder County, UT; Brazoria County, TX; Butte County, CA; Caddo Parish, LA; Charleston, WV; Citrus County, FL; Conway, AR; Cook County, IL; Dakota County, MN; Deschutes County, OR; Eagle Mountain, UT; Fresno, CA; Fulton County, GA; Gulfport, MS; Hennepin County, MN; Hillsborough Township, NJ; Jacksonville, NC; Juneau, AK; King County, WA; Kuna, ID; Lewiston, ME; Los Angeles County, CA; Loveland, CO; Mecklenburg County, NC; Morgantown, WV; Mount Pleasant, WI; New Castle County, DE; Newton County, GA; Nottingham, NH; Oakland, CA; Oakland County, MI; Pasco County, FL; Phoenix, AZ; Port Washington, WI; Portland, OR; Portland Metro, OR; Providence, RI; Ramsey County, MN; Rancho Cordova, CA; Sacramento, CA; Saint Paul, MN; Salt Lake County, UT; San Mateo County, CA; Santa Cruz County, AZ; Sarpy County, NE; Snohomish County, WA; South Burlington, VT; Storey County, NV; Sugar Land, TX; Tarrant County, TX; Tulsa County, OK; Washtenaw County, MI; West Des Moines, IA; Willmar, MN; Wyandotte County, KS.