City of Charleston

What Charleston’s boards have decided, read from the record.

Zoning appeals, planning commission recommendations, and city council’s final word on rezonings — machine-read from the ordinances, staff reports, and roll-call votes the city itself publishes, and tied to the parcel each one was about.

How we read the record Talk to us

99.51%Weighted · audited 2026‑07‑30

Of case records audited against their source documents, weighted to the corpus’s real composition, 99.51% agreed with the source — measured on the Charleston Board of Zoning Appeals corpus.

What that number measures, what it doesn’t, and why we won’t publish 100% →

Coverage

What we hold for the City of Charleston, and whether it can carry a rate.

Sources held and classified for this city

Can carry a published approval rate

Cannot — each row says why

Generated from the store, observed 2026-08-01. The same registry the full coverage page reads from, filtered to this city. Counts are floors — they describe what we have classified, not everything that exists. **Readable text** is the share of the documents that produce a board's cases which carry an extractable text layer, measured by fetching every catalogued document.
Jurisdiction	Body	Record kind	Readable text	Rate?	Why
City of Charleston	Board of Zoning Appeals	full_disposition	99.2%	Yes	The source records every outcome, including refusals.
City of Charleston	City Council	full_disposition	88.7%	No	Has readable text for 88.7% of its documents, below the 90% needed to divide by.
City of Charleston	Planning Commission	recommendation	70.1%	No	The body recommends; another body decides. A recommendation is advice, not a result.

Elsewhere in the county

Charleston is one of three places we hold so far.

↑ All of Charleston County Mount Pleasant → North Charleston →

Have a Charleston parcel already in mind?

Tell us the address or the TMS and we’ll tell you plainly whether the record covers it — including when it doesn’t.

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