1. Property & Jurisdiction

• Confirm legal description, parcel number, ownership, and site boundaries.
• Identify the city, county, special district, and utility providers with jurisdiction.
• Confirm current use and whether it is legal, legal nonconforming, or unpermitted.
• Review easements, covenants, access rights, and recorded restrictions.

2. Zoning & Entitlements

• Verify zoning and future land-use designation.
• Confirm the proposed use is permitted, conditional, or prohibited.
• Check density, lot coverage, height, setbacks, parking, landscaping, and open-space standards.
• Identify subdivision, platting, rezoning, variance, conditional-use, or design-review requirements.
• Confirm public-hearing and appeal timelines.

3. Infrastructure & Access

• Confirm water and sewer availability, capacity, connection points, and fees.
• Identify frontage, road-improvement, sidewalk, curb, or right-of-way requirements.
• Review fire access, fire flow, hydrant spacing, and emergency access.
• Evaluate stormwater, drainage, retention, detention, and downstream constraints.
• Confirm legal and physical access to the site.

4. Physical & Environmental Constraints

• Review floodplain and floodway mapping.
• Check wetlands, critical areas, steep slopes, habitat, or shoreline regulations.
• Evaluate topography, soils, geotechnical conditions, and retaining-wall needs.
• Identify environmental contamination or prior uses that may warrant further study.

5. Cost, Schedule & Execution

• List all known permit, impact, utility, review, and development fees.
• Identify off-site improvements or mitigation that may be required.
• Build a realistic approval sequence and schedule.
• Identify which consultants are needed and when.
• Confirm financing assumptions can absorb approval delays and cost escalation.