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Jersey City, NJ — permit intelligence.

Phase 1 anchor. Planning Board, Zoning Board, Historic Preservation Commission, and CivicWeb resolution archive parsed. Tyler EnerGov portal observation enabled.

Cases catalogued
31,141
Correction comments
3,518
Board decisions
2,156
First-pass median
34d
n=1657
All-paths median
183d
n=4836

Live signals from the Jersey City corpus.

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Most frequent correction categories

3,518 total
  • parking_compliance1,028 (29.2%)
  • stormwater_grading633 (18.0%)
  • setback585 (16.6%)
  • occupancy_classification303 (8.6%)
  • application_completeness249 (7.1%)
  • historic_review125 (3.6%)
  • egress112 (3.2%)
  • lot_coverage112 (3.2%)
Source: pg_review_observations → Correction entities · materialized aggregation

Corrections by department

  • zoning1,892
  • engineering636
  • building416
  • admin320
  • fire152
  • mechanical56
  • plumbing29
  • electrical17
Department → ISSUED_CORRECTION → Correction (graph traversal)

Board outcomes

municipal council2,084 decisions
approval rate: 87.1%
approved: 1,816withdrawn: 115deferred: 45defeated: 42tabled: 21
planning61 decisions
approval rate: 91.8%
approved: 56denied: 4withdrawn: 1
zoning adjustment8 decisions
approval rate: 100.0%
approved: 8
historic preservation3 decisions
approval rate: 100.0%
approved: 3
Decision → REVIEWED_BY → Department + decision_outcome grouped

Common questions about Jersey City.

How does PermitGranted know what Jersey City reviewers will flag?

We parse the full public record for Jersey City: planning board decisions, zoning board rulings, NJ DCA UCC construction permits, and where available the correction comments reviewers actually write. Today the corpus holds 31,141 cases and 3,518 correction comments for Jersey City.

What is the median permit approval timeline in Jersey City?

For Jersey City, the clean first-pass median is 34 days (n=1657); the all-paths median (including carries and tabled hearings) is 183 days (n=4836). First-pass means approved or approved with conditions on the first hearing.

Where does the data for Jersey City come from?

Three primary feeds: (1) NJ DCA UCC statewide construction permits via data.nj.gov; (2) CivicWeb meeting + resolution archive when the municipality publishes there; (3) any municipality-specific public portal (Tyler EnerGov, SDL, fasttrackgov). Every fact links back to its raw document — we don't model behavior without evidence.

Is the Jersey City corpus updated in real time?

The crawler runs continuously. Status today: live. Counts on this page refresh every five minutes from the live API; the underlying corpus updates whenever the public source publishes new content.

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Counts reflect 31,141 parsed cases + 2,156 linked decisions. Sample size n=6493. · All jurisdictions