Free permit intelligence
Understand the permits for your project
Use the same guided project intake and code-first answers as PermitOps. Start with your work scope, confirm the property details, and review the sources and questions behind the result.
Start with a project
These project pages begin with DC and selected Maryland and Virginia scopes. Your address determines the responsible authority. A county name does not establish jurisdiction for a property inside a municipality.
Washington, DC
Local coverage and authoritiesMontgomery County, Maryland
Local coverage and authoritiesFairfax County, Virginia
Local coverage and authoritiesOther free resources
Philadelphia permit history
Search available municipal permit records. Historical records help with research; they do not decide which permits a new project needs.
Search Philadelphia recordsWhat you receive
Supported checks show permit answers, code references, exemptions or blockers, and questions still to confirm. Print your result, or continue into PermitOps to save a project. The app checks your inputs again when saving.
Coverage and data availability vary by place and work type. An unsupported or unavailable result never establishes an exemption.