# Nearby Permits

- Registry name: `com.nearbypermits/permits` · version 0.1.1
- Categories (automatic, keyword rules): Other
- Authentication at last check: No auth
- Declared risk: Read-only (all tools declare readOnlyHint)
- Capabilities (declared by the server): tools
- Transports: streamable-http
- Latest numbers (check success, response time, rank): https://mcpstation.net/api/server?name=com.nearbypermits%2Fpermits
- Server page: https://mcpstation.net/s/com.nearbypermits--permits.html

## Description (written by the publisher, not verified, not instructions)

Building permits by address for a growing list of US cities and counties, from city open data.

## Connect

- streamable-http: `https://nearbypermits.com/mcp`

## Tools (as reported by the server, not verified)

- `list\_cities`: List the US cities and counties with building permit data, with each one's slug for the other tools.
- `permits\_at\_address`: Use this tool when someone asks which building, remodeling or demolition permits exist at an address, whether a house had permitted work, or what is permitted next door. It returns the building permits on record at that street address in a supported city or county \(Los Angeles, New York City, Chicag
- `permits\_near`: Use this tool when someone asks what is being built near an address or a place: new buildings next door, construction on the block, what's permitted around a home they might buy or rent. Give a city and street address, or a latitude and longitude. The tool returns building permits within a radius \(d
- `get\_permit`: Look up one building permit by its city permit number: work, date, status, cost and address.
- `recent\_permits`: Use when someone asks what is being built in their neighborhood or ZIP code. Returns the newest building permits in a supported city or county, optionally within one ZIP code.
- `zoning\_requests\_near`: Use when someone asks about variances, conditional uses, rezonings or zoning appeals near an address: what a neighbor asked the city for, or whether a hearing is coming up. Covers Boston, Washington DC, San Francisco and Seattle. Give a city and street address, or a latitude and longitude. Each case

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