Iban

founder @MotionCounts | 1K+ cities and counties | land use, bond underwriters, manufacturers and distributors || prev: swe @interpressec, math + stats @ucsc

[Iban @ibansadowski]

@hthieblot municipal intelligence, alternative data. there's alpha in publicly posted documents that used to be prohibitively expensive to parse but that's trivial now. city and county decisions affect zoning (lawyers), bonds (underwriters), sewers (manufacturers)

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Updates to work exempt from permits, standard plans, unfinished buildings, specific hazard areas, signs, food establishments, security provisions, and permit expiration times.

Source: LA City Council, CF 25-1217. @MotionCounts

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LA adopted the 2025 California Building Standards Code by urgency ordinance to meet the January 1, 2026 effective date.

That means the changes are in effect now.

The code you were permitting under last year is not the code you're permitting under this month.

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@helloitsaustin @itsolelehmann beastmode

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The auditor recommends updated field sampling by late 2027.
2,278 miles of sewer. 50-year-old assumptions.

If you do condition assessment, flow monitoring, or sewer system evaluation, this is one of the largest untapped inspection opportunities on the West Coast

@MotionCounts

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18 lift stations are in land acquisition for rehab and reconstruction.

Consent decree work is legally mandated and cannot be deferred when budgets tighten or leadership turns over.

This is one city. We track these signals across 154. At @MotionCounts

[Iban @ibansadowski]

For those of you asking, "What IS @MotionCounts?", "How does it work?", "Where's the functionality?", this demo video is for you.
It shows all of our features, free and paid, and walks you through what you can expect to see while using it.

[Iban @ibansadowski]

Cross-jurisdiction practitioners know the struggle.

Take a look at what we're building: @MotionCounts

[Iban @ibansadowski]

Market concentration doesn't just occur in news media and search engines. It's at the heart of how cities function.

Municipal agenda software looks fragmented. It's actually a duopoly.

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We parse the patchwork of PDFs, HTML, and paper scans into a unified API so you don't have to.

If you've ever tried to follow a zoning case across city lines, or just wanted to know what your council voted on last week, this is for you.

[Iban @ibansadowski]

I sourced all of this using my platform, @MotionCounts -- a municipal intelligence tool that lets land use lawyers track zoning disputes, appeals, and votes across every committee in every city in their state

[Iban @ibansadowski]

San Antonio just told a developer that their 40-year-old vested rights are blocking them from SB 840 benefits.
Texas Senate Bill 840 is meant to unlock density. By-right multifamily on commercial. No Traffic Impact Analysis for conversions. Residential Proximity Slope waivers

[Iban @ibansadowski]

Meanwhile in Dallas, staff is recommending against MF-2(A) zoning specifically because 840's RPS waiver now comes bundled with it. They're using the density unlock as a compatibility argument against more density