The Tracker
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The statewide map, the hearing calendar, documents and parcel details as the county posts them, an email when a watched case moves, and a digest of new filings.
Subscribe, $99/moFlorida land-use filings · Orlando · Tampa · Jacksonville
Florida’s development pipeline, before it’s news.
Rezonings, comp plan amendments and Live Local approvals, read from the public record and mapped. Every product type: multifamily, retail, industrial, office, mixed-use and hospitality.
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Free · five minutes · every item links to the record
LIVE MAP
FROM THE PUBLIC RECORD
Loading 300 live Polk, Marion & Volusia counties cases from the
tracker. If the map does not appear, the full sample is at
dirtdocket.com/demo/.
Tap a dot. The case file opens here: what was filed, where it stands, and the paperwork.
Moving now
Approved
No recent activity
155,477
Cases tracked
123
Jurisdictions watched
65,717
Documents archived
Record
Every source, re-read
This sample is Polk, Marion & Volusia.
The free brief covers Orlando, Tampa Bay, and Jacksonville. Same record, your market, free. South Florida does not have a brief edition yet. What filed and what got approved. Free, five minutes to read, and every item links to its public record.
Recent filing write-ups.
The sample is the whole product. It just stops at three counties.
- The four markets the sample holds back: Orlando, Tampa Bay, Jacksonville and South Florida
- All 155,477 tracked cases, not the 300 in the sample
- The deal lens that ranks sites by why they are worth a call, across every market
- Land for sale, stormwater filings and press mentions layered on the same map
- The hearing calendar, an email when a watched case moves, documents and parcel details as the county posts them, and a digest of new filings
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The pipeline that never hits an agenda.
Live Local Act approvals are administrative. So are zoning determinations, master plan sign-offs, and a growing share of Florida’s multifamily entitlements. They bypass the planning commission and the county commission entirely, which means they never appear on a public agenda, never draw a news story, and never show up in a hearing calendar.
They do leave a paper trail. DirtDocket reads application portals, determination files, and staff records directly, so the approvals that skip every public meeting still land in the record. Every issue carries a Live Local Watch section, even when that section has nothing new, because knowing the channel is quiet is intelligence too.
The file behind each dot.
The filing
Case number, request type, acreage and units where the record states them, and the status in plain English.
The timeline
Every dated step from application to board vote to ordinance, plus what is scheduled next.
The owner
Name and mailing address off the county roll, what they paid, when they bought, and the assessed value.
The documents
Staff reports, site plans, minutes and ordinances, archived so they survive the portal that published them.
Permits
Building permits where the county publishes them, attached to the case they match.
Early signals
Stormwater permit applications, land listings and press mentions, often months ahead of a planning case.
Seven sections, five minutes.
- 01The LedeThe single most consequential filing or approval since the last issue, and why it matters.
- 02On the DocketNew filings: jurisdiction, request type, units and acreage where stated, one practitioner read each.
- 03Live Local WatchAdministrative and Live Local Act approvals that never reach a public agenda. Always present.
- 04The Hearing RoomWhat goes before P&Z and the commissions in the next 14 days, ordered by date.
- 05No recent activityEntitled sites with no dated event on the case in the last 24 months. A filing, hearing, permit, construction step, stormwater record, or Notice of Commencement counts when the date is a real date. A year is not a date. An approval known only by year is recently approved when January 1 of that year is on or after the start of the window, so the whole year is inside, and the label says Approved and that year. A year that starts before the window is Approved, and it is not recently approved. The year comes from the approval itself. The page never invents a month or a day. A duplicate year-only row does not count when a real approval date exists. An open case known only by year stays open, not Approved and not in review.
- 06The Flip FileRecently entitled sites likely to trade, with the entitlement summary.
- 07By the NumbersFilings, units in the pipeline, busiest jurisdictions. Computed from the tracker, basis stated.
Who it’s for
Land brokers, developers, land use attorneys, lenders, and landowners who make decisions before the market does.
Read an issue first.
Issue No. 001, the Orlando edition. Tampa Bay and Jacksonville issues are in the archive too.
Read the sample issue →
Questions, answered plainly.
Is it really free?
Yes. The brief is free and stays free. For the statewide map there is one paid plan: The Tracker, $99 a month.
Where does the data come from?
Public agendas, application portals, determination files, and staff reports, read at the source. Every item in every issue links to its public record.
What areas are covered?
The tracker covers Florida statewide: 123 jurisdictions, listed on the coverage page. The free brief covers Orlando, Tampa Bay, and Jacksonville. South Florida does not have a brief edition yet. The map on this page is a live sample from Polk, Marion, and Volusia.
How long is each issue?
About five minutes. When an issue runs heavy we cut items rather than compress the writing; the tracker holds everything else.