Legal capacityNeeds policy

Complete the residential zone-rule verification set

The DADU artifact reports legal capacity as unknown for 62,474 included parcels because their zone-family rules have not completed the published verification path.

Scale
62,474
34% of 186,364
Geography
Seattle
citywide
Constraint codes
legal_zone_family_unverified

Missing capability

A reviewed, versioned rule mapping for every zone family represented in the included DADU universe.

Current routes

  • Parcel evidence card and joined development-rule record
  • Current Seattle land-use code review

Next required artifact

A zone-family rule verification matrix with code citations, effective dates, reviewer disposition, and regression fixtures.

Success: Every included parcel resolves legal capacity to passed or blocked under a reviewed rule version, with unknown retained only for genuinely missing inputs.

Source artifact: gap-atlas:backyard-cottage:v1

The count is an evidence-readiness result, not a count of parcels where DADUs are prohibited. The brief uses the artifact's citywide denominator and does not imply that all 62,474 parcels would pass later stages. The evidence claim identifier is a parcel-id template; each parcel manifest materializes its own claim.

Published 7/26/2026

How to use this

The counts here are pinned to artifact gap-dadu-v1.2+assumptions-2026-Q2+financial-v1+programs-2026-06-23. They do not change as the warehouse changes; when the underlying evaluation moves, this brief is republished with new numbers rather than edited in place, so a citation of this page stays meaningful.

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