Sample answer
What an answer looks like
A real example: a buildability screen for a coastal parcel. Notice the cited sources behind every claim — and the planner one click away when judgment is needed.
What Parsull checked
Grays Harbor County Planning Dept.
Whether any of the lot is buildable around the floodway and wetland buffers is a discretionary call, so a planner should confirm it.
What to notice
A single question — “Can I build here, and are there flood or wetland issues?” — pulled together work that would normally mean opening four separate systems. It’s worth seeing how the answer is built, because that structure repeats on every parcel.
It commits to a verdict.“Yes, but tightly” is a real answer, not a hedge. The constraints that qualify it — a regulatory floodway where new structures are barred, a base-flood-elevation requirement, critical-area buffers up to 300 ft — are stated plainly, in the order that actually affects whether you can build.
Every claim is sourced.The flood finding traces to the flood map, the boundary to the county parcel record, the buffers to a specific section of the local critical-areas ordinance. You don’t take the answer on trust — you open the citation and confirm it.
It knows where its judgment ends.Whether any of the lot is buildable around the floodway and wetland buffers is a discretionary call, so the answer doesn’t fake one. Instead it surfaces the governing planning department and offers to draft the email — turning a dead end into a next step.