Yard Rules Tools
A generic answer can tell you what a setback is. It cannot tell you what is left to build on after yours, whether your state statute guarantees your ADU, or what three projects at once do to your coverage allowance. These four tools work from the numbers you enter and end in questions to put to your department.
ADU Feasibility Calculator
Enter your ZIP and unit size to see whether a state statute guarantees approval, what protections apply, and what is still decided locally.
Open the adu feasibility calculator →Permit Threshold Screener
Enter your project dimensions to see whether a shed, fence, deck or pool usually sits inside a permit exemption, and what ends that exemption.
Open the permit threshold screener →Setback & Coverage Visualiser
Draw your buildable envelope from your own lot dimensions and setbacks, then run the lot coverage and impervious caps on your figures.
Open the setback & coverage visualiser →Multi-Project Checklist Builder
Select every project you are planning and get one merged, deduplicated and printable checklist ordered by stage.
Open the multi-project checklist builder →For the typical standards behind each tool, see the yard rules hub, the yard rules guides, or the yard rules checker.
ZoneFig provides general reference information, not legal advice. Yard and zoning rules are adopted locally, so the only binding answer for your address comes from your city, town or county planning and building department. Typical thresholds shown here describe patterns across many jurisdictions and are not the rule at any specific property.