Tracking the Zoning Board of Adjustment's docket.
Every ZBA case since 2020 — what's on the docket, what the board decided, and how long it took. Free and public. See what's coming up → Follow permits to construction →
6,742
Cases tracked
719
Pending
6,123
Variances
608
Special exceptions
190
Median days to decision
Case volume
Cases filed per year
Outcomes
Terminal decisions by year the case was decided. Colors distinguish outcomes; none is coded as good or bad.
How long it takes
Median days from filing to decision, by filing year (right-censored for the current year)
How we read these numbers
- Scope: appeal numbers starting "ZP-", filed 2020 or later. Earlier ZBA cases (2007–2020) are identifiable in the City's data by board but aren't loaded yet; adding them is planned.
- An outcome counts as terminal (Approved, Denied, Withdrawn, or Dismissed) only once the board has issued a decision; Continued/Held/Moot dispositions are procedural, not terminal, and aren't included in the outcome chart above.
- Proposed unit counts are parsed from appeal-grounds text, not a filed field — treat them as an estimate.
- "Housing only" means a filing that adds homes (net-new units stated in the appeal grounds, including new dwellings and accessory dwelling units) or is a multi-family project. It is a rule-based reading of the filing text, so a roof deck or rear addition on an existing house doesn't count.
- Council district is the district L&I records on the appeal itself; where that is missing we use the parcel's location.
- Every case here links back to its filing — browse the full docket in the case list.