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Service.

What The Lot is an editorial front-end for public property, zoning, and permitting data from the City of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, Virginia. It is not an official government record, not legal advice, not a real-estate listing service, and not a substitute for professional counsel.

For anything that has legal, financial, or life consequences, verify against the source of record. Our Data & sources page tells you where every dataset comes from.

You can browse most of the site without an account. Watchlists, alerts, and other saved state require you to sign in. You’re responsible for keeping your sign-in credentials safe. Don’t share your account, and let us know if you think it’s been compromised.

You agree not to:

• Scrape or bulk-download the site in ways that degrade it for others.
• Attempt to break, probe, or bypass the site’s security.
• Impersonate anyone, misrepresent your affiliation, or send messages through our forms designed to harass or defraud.
• Use the site to build a competing product by wholesale copying of editorial content, layout, or code without permission.
• Use the site in violation of any applicable law.

Reasonable, human-scale use — browsing, saving watchlists, sending tips, sharing links — is exactly what we’re here for.

The underlying property, zoning, permit, and agenda data is public record and belongs to the jurisdictions that publish it. Our layout, editorial writing, aggregations, code, brand marks, and design are ours (or our contributors’) and are made available on the site only for personal, non-commercial use unless you have written permission otherwise.

We do our best to keep the site accurate and up to date, but data feeds from government agencies change formats, go offline, or contain errors. The site is provided as is, without warranties of any kind. We can’t promise the site will always be available, always be correct, or always suit a particular purpose.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, What The Lot and its contributors are not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the site — including, but not limited to, decisions you make based on information you find here. Verify anything that matters against the underlying record.

We may suspend or close accounts that violate these terms or that jeopardize the site’s security or availability. You can close your account at any time from Account.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute is subject to the jurisdiction of courts located in Virginia.

We may update these terms as the site evolves. Material changes will be announced on the site; the date at the top always reflects the last update. Continued use of the site means you accept the new version.