Sources that carry it

10 sources
Asheville-Buncombe Air Quality Agency
Asbestos and Demolition Permits

Public Accela Citizen Access search records for asbestos and demolition permits issued in Buncombe County, North Carolina. The portal history begins in 2021 and provides permit identifiers, dates, status, address, project text, and record-detail links; coverage is county-level, not statewide.

Free Subnational 5 fields
Los Angeles Department of Building an…
Building and Safety Certificate of Occupancy

Official City of Los Angeles open-data product exposing LADBS Certificate of Occupancy records through dataset 3f9m-afei, an anonymous SODA API, and downloadable full files. Rows carry CofO number, issue date, latest certificate status and status-effective date; assessor book/page/parcel, legal-description and street-address keys; the related PCIS permit; permit and building facts; and, where populated, an `occupancy` value explicitly defined as the approved use for the structure. Public metadata identifies LADBS, official provenance, CC0 1.0 dedication, a weekly committed refresh, and data updated 2026-08-17; the checked live data contained 128,551 rows with CofO issue dates from 2005-01-26 through 2026-08-14. This is a certificate-record dataset, not proof of present operations: 82.89% of checked rows have null occupancy, no separate certificate-type or successor identifier is emitted, and current interpretation must be pinned to `cofo_issue_date`, `status_date`, `latest_status`, and the dataset-level source vintage.

Free APIFull file Subnational 20 fields
Chicago Department of Public Health
CDPH Environmental Permits

Permits issued by the Department of Environment (DOE) from January 1993 to December 31, 2011 and by the Department of Public Health (CDPH) since January 1, 2012. This dataset also includes tank permits issued by CDPH on behalf of the Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshall (OSFM). On January 1, 2012, the DOE was disbanded and all its inspection, permitting, and enforcement authorities were transferred to the CDPH. The public Chicago Data Portal provides API access and downloadable exports, with daily updates.

Free APIFull file Subnational 6 fields
Chicago Department of Buildings
Chicago Building Permits

Official daily public dataset and SODA API of Chicago building permits issued from 2006 onward, including documented permit type and current status fields.

Free APIFull file Subnational 2 fields
New York City Department of Buildings
DOB Permit Issuance

Official daily public dataset and SODA API covering the lifecycle of New York City BIS permits, with a building identifier, permit status/type, and publication run date.

Free APIFull file Subnational 2 fields
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
Iowa Solid Waste Landfills

Iowa landfill and land-disposal inventory filtered from Iowa DNR's Solid Waste Facilities layer to Municipal Landfills and Other Landfills. It includes active and inactive or closed sites with facility identity, program and permit status, address, county, coordinates, and permit dates.

Free APIBatch enrichmentFull file Subnational 10 fields
Los Angeles Department of Building an…
LADBS Soft Story Permits

Official City of Los Angeles open-data product exposing soft-story-related permit and permit-application records through a dedicated Socrata catalog asset (nc44-6znn), API, and downloadable files. It contains parcel/address keys, permit identifiers, issue and status dates, permit status/type/category, work description, building attributes, and related permit-party fields. The product is limited to City of Los Angeles permit records selected into this soft-story view; it is not the mandatory programme's full building inventory. Metadata commits to weekly refresh, but the data was last updated 2023-05-22 and the latest row dates are 2023-05-19, so consumers must pin results to that source vintage. Permit issuance, `CofC Issued`, `Permit Finaled`, or absence of a record must not be interpreted as current structural safety, retrofit design adequacy, or complete ordinance compliance without an official status definition and newer authority evidence.

Free APIFull file Subnational 19 fields
Maryland Department of the Environment
Refuse Disposal Facilities

Refuse-disposal permit records from MDE’s Solid Waste Program permits dataset.

Free APIBatch enrichmentFull file Subnational 9 fields
Shovels
Shovels API v2

Commercial REST API for searching permits and address-level property permit histories across covered U.S. jurisdictions, including normalized permit status/type and canonical-tag recency rollups.

Free API National US 3 fields
Virginia Department of Environmental …
Virginia Solid Waste Landfills

Virginia landfill inventory comprising the sanitary, industrial, construction/demolition/debris, and inert landfill subset of VA DEQ's Solid Waste Permits ArcGIS layer. It covers permitted landfill units and includes active, inactive, closed, and post-closure records with permit, facility, status, waste, capacity-limit, and location attributes.

Free APIBatch enrichmentFull file Subnational 12 fields

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