Neighborhood intelligence
Vanguard monitors every municipal GIS and permit portal within your radius. When a zoning variance or commercial development is filed within 2,000 feet of your home, you get an SMS. Instantly.
How it works
Enter your address. Vanguard pins your parcel and monitors every filing within your configured radius — down to the block. Zoning variances, conditional use permits, commercial build-outs. All of it.
Parses municipal permit portals in real time — no manual data entry.
Configurable radius — 500ft, 1,000ft, or 2,000ft. Per subscriber.
Text message, not email. Not a newsletter. The moment it drops.
What an alert looks like
ALERT: Zoning variance filed
Commercial addition permit submitted — 1,840 ft from your property. Address: 412 Elm St. Variance requests setback exception from R-3 zone requirements.
Log in to review full filing and object before the hearing date.
"The most consequential decisions about your neighborhood are made in permit offices — and homeowners find out about them after the decision is already final."
Local governments publish zoning filings publicly. But nobody reads them — until a 200-unit apartment complex breaks ground two blocks away and it's too late to object.
Vanguard exists to change that balance. We believe homeowners have a right to know, in real time, what is being filed in their own backyards. Not after the hearing notice runs in a newspaper nobody reads. Not after the variance is approved. The moment it lands.
Your home is probably the most expensive thing you own. And right now, someone could be filing a variance 1,500 feet from your door — and you'd never know until it's approved.
Vanguard is built for the homeowner who takes that seriously.