Equitable zoning / Equitable Zoning Scorecard
How equitable is your zoning code?
Upload your zoning code and ZoneCo's Equitable Zoning Scorecard will grade it on 15 features that shape housing choice, housing cost, and access to jobs, schools, and services. It's free.
How it works
Send us your code
Tell us who you are and which community the code belongs to, then upload the zoning code as a PDF or paste a link to it online.
We score it
The code is graded against ZoneCo's scorecard: density, lot size, unit size, heights, multi-unit housing, mixed use, ADUs, parking, and six bonus categories.
You get a report
We email you your results as a PDF, usually within five business days: an overall score, the biggest opportunities for improvement, and a finding for every category with the section of your code it is based on.
Get your scorecard
All fields marked * are required. Your results are sent only to you; ZoneCo never publishes a community's score.
Questions? Call (513) 235-3470.
What the scorecard measures
ZoneCo's Equitable Zoning Scorecard asks whether a code's rules tend to create scarcity, by raising the cost of land and housing or separating households from jobs, schools, and services, or abundance. Codes start at zero and gain or lose points in nine core categories, with up to three bonus points available.
- Residential density, lot area, and minimum unit size
- Height limits for multi-unit, commercial, and mixed-use buildings
- Where housing of three or more units is allowed, and how
- Mixed use within a building, and accessory dwelling units
- Off-street parking minimums
- Bonus: design review hearings, occupancy limits on unrelated people, home occupations, childcare, schools, and assisted living
Want more than a scorecard? A full zoning equity assessment or a zoning diagnostic maps where each rule applies and recommends specific amendments.