us.buildability/mcp · v2.0.0 · location-and-travel
Buildability is healthy: it completed an MCP handshake in 1544 ms and exposes 12 tools.
Source-cited, address-level answers on zoning, site constraints, permitting and what can be built.
Endpoint: https://buildability.us/api/mcp (streamable-http)
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| Handshake | Healthy |
| Auth needed | None |
| Tool count | 12 |
| Latency | 1544 ms |
| Last checked (UTC) | 2026-10-31T13:25:27.959Z |
| Checked (UTC) | Status | Latency | Error |
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| 2026-10-31T13:25:27.959Z | Healthy | 1544 |
what_can_i_build | Whether a project can be built on a US property — a backyard home (ADU), an addition, a garage or shed, a fence, a new home, or a lot split — from what the record says about its district: status (yes, yes with limits, no, depends, or unread where the deciding rules have not been read), a plain-words |
score_address | The Buildability Score for any US street address, from live federal data (FEMA flood, USGS seismic, USDA soil, EPA radon, USFS wildfire, OSM utilities): score, band, status and every factor the score reads, each with its status, sub-score (only when read), source, record and read date. capsApplied a |
envelope | What a lot can hold by right, from the letter of its zoning code applied to the real parcel outline: units, buildable floor area, height, floors, and setbacks. `sources` labels each number: "code" (its section, URL, read date and quote are in `citations`), "derived" (computed from a cited number), o |
outcomes | Permit outcomes on record for a zoning district (counts by outcome: built, permitted, denied, stalled, withdrawn) from the jurisdiction's open permit data. `time_to_issue` gives days from application to issue per kind of work, with the sample size and date range; it counts only permits that were iss |
flood_zone | The FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer zone at a US street address, read at the address point: zone, whether it is a Special Flood Hazard Area, zone subtype, floodway and base flood elevation where FEMA returns them, with the query URL and read date. Where FEMA has no polygon at the point, zone is nul |
zoning_district | The dimensional standards the Buildability Zoning Atlas has read for one zoning district (height, stories, dwelling units, lot size, width, depth and frontage, setbacks, floor-to-area ratio, coverage), each with its code section, source URL, read date and `source_text`: the ordinance quoted verbatim |
atlas_coverage | Which cities and zoning districts the Buildability Zoning Atlas has read and publishes, with each city's hub page, its districts and the newest read date. Pass `state` (two-letter code) to narrow it. Use zoning_district to read one district's cited standards. A city that is not listed has not been r |
site_briefing | Public records around a US street address: U.S. Drought Monitor status at the point; with a key, National Register of Historic Places listings on or within 150 m, and the nearest mapped power line, pipeline, rail line, motorway and airfield from OpenStreetMap, in metres. Each item carries its source |
cost_ranges | What new construction costs, from U.S. government series only. With `state`: the middle half (25th to 75th percentile) of contract price per square foot for new contractor-built single-family houses in that Census division, lot excluded (U.S. Census Bureau, Survey of Construction). With `sqFt` too: |
search | Searches Buildability's public pages: Zoning Atlas district pages (cited dimensional standards), city zoning source packs, the canonical product and methodology pages, and articles. Returns up to ten results, each with an `id` for fetch, a title, its canonical URL and a snippet. For a specific addre |
fetch | Returns one page found by search, by its `id`, as text with its canonical URL and `read_date`: the date on its record (when the code or sources were read, or the page last changed). Cite the URL. |
compare_addresses | One row per US street address, in the order given (never sorted by Score): Buildability Score, band, the landmine caps that bound it, FEMA flood zone at the address point, zoning district, and whether the district's dimensional standards are on record (yes/no), each with its source and read date, pl |