Our Mission
Land Use Labs aims to provide policymakers, companies, real estate professionals, property owners, and researchers with industry-leading zoning data that informs policy, development, and research.
What Drives Us
Land Use Labs is a mission-driven social enterprise built to leverage the most authoritative zoning dataset in the country to ensure the long-term viability of a public zoning resource that is current, free, and available to all.
We are the team behind the National Zoning Atlas (NZA): an interactive map and database digitizing, demystifying, and democratizing zoning information across the country’s 33,000 jurisdictions. It has powered groundbreaking zoning advocacy, analysis, and research across the nation.
By licensing our data, you support that valuable public resource.
Since its founding in 2020, the NZA was built on philanthropic support. But sustaining a living dataset — one that keeps pace with zoning code changes across thousands of jurisdictions — demands a more durable model.
Land Use Labs is that model.
We're now making NZA zoning data — widely regarded as the best in the business — available to outside partners. This will expand and maintain the NZA as a free public resource for years to come.
