See a record: Brecksville (226) · Hudson (155) · Independence (94)
For cities
Your applicants show up ready.
Your portal takes the application. We prepare what goes in it. It costs the city nothing.
From one board’s minutes, this year:
- A case called with nobody present to speak for it.
- A fence built without approval because the owner “relied on his contractor.”
- Two requests denied, then re-filed and re-heard a month later.
- The board asking, again, for photos, drawings and neighbor letters.
Every one of those is a continuance, a re-hearing, or a call to the clerk.
What the city gets
A precedent index
Every decision your board has made, by project type, with the vote and the minutes. Staff, board and residents can all see it. Brecksville, Hudson and Independence are live.
A pre-application guide
Your deadlines, fees, drawing rules and meeting dates, in one place, in plain words, one click from your portal.
Complete applications
Residents who want help pay us $199. They file your form filled in, a scale sketch on an overhead of the lot, a practical-difficulty statement that cites your board’s own decisions, and show up with a one-pager.
What we ask
- A link on your Board of Zoning Appeals page.
- Twenty minutes with whoever fields the applications.
No contract, no fee, no software to install. Your records are already public; we read them, you keep them.
Questions
- Are you coaching people to beat the board?
- No. We show them what the board has already decided and what it asks for. A complete, honest application is easier to say yes or no to.
- Is the city endorsing a private service?
- The link goes to the index of your own public record. The paid packet is the resident’s choice, and the page says so.
- What does this cost the city?
- Nothing now. If staff want more later, such as search across all boards and years, we’ll talk then.
- Which cities?
- Any city whose board publishes its minutes online. Indexed so far: Brecksville, Ohio, 226 decisions since December 7, 2020 (205 approvals); Hudson, Ohio, 155 decisions since January 18, 2018 (137 approvals); Independence, Ohio, 94 decisions since January 18, 2024 (92 approvals). Others on request.