Permit search + map
Supabase is queried when the page opens or a search is submitted. Activity groups permits by applied_date. The map is a clearly labeled current-month sample.
No mystery layer
Show the work.
Florida Signal is useful only if the chain of evidence is visible. These are the sources, joins, limits and editorial gates behind the product.
The refresh contract
Two clocks. No sleight of hand.
A government record can be old and arrive in a new batch. Florida Signal charts the event by its application or recording date, while separately showing when our system pulled and processed it.
Accela + Broward + Sunbiz
Permit intake runs nightly at 10:00 PM, the public mirror and detail lane every 30 minutes, enrichment every two hours, Broward at 9:30 AM and Sunbiz at 11:30 PM. Clerk charts use recording_date_iso; batch times describe freshness only.
NHC storm status
The official current-storm feed is refreshed briefly through Florida Signal. The official outlook image remains the source of truth; Storm Watch is a display mode, not an official alert.
Live official sourceMeeting + industry watch
The server reads Fort Lauderdale’s Legistar calendar every 15 minutes. The published DRC schedule and selected realtor/contractor listings are source-cited editorial snapshots—not a live association crawler.
Every row links to its sourceTax-lien geography
Clerk lien instruments are valuable, but area views stay unpublished until the lien-to-parcel resolver produces a defensible folio/address match. No neighborhood is inferred from a batch alone.
Not public yetEmail + watched ZIP
The site stores consented email, ZIP, source and timestamps privately, then upserts server-side to the Mailchimp Broward Audience using WATCHZIP when the API key is present. No credential or subscriber list is exposed.
Florida Desk CMS
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WirePacket → public siteDaily Intel Brief
Automated collection can nominate leads and signals. Narrative claims and newsletter selections remain a human editorial decision.
6:15 a.m. editionHow to read every number
A count travels with its clock.
- Window
- The first and last application, registration, recording or meeting date included.
- Sample
- The displayed record cap plus the actual date span inside that returned sample.
- Snapshot
- When a source was last successfully pulled or enriched.
- Cumulative
- A total through a named date—not a claim that every record happened that day.
01 · Collect
Named public sources.
The public site reads a deliberately narrow set of fields from the production Supabase mirror. The mirror is populated from government records; it is not a synthetic dataset.
- Fort Lauderdale AccelaPermits, applications, status, declared value, contractors, inspections and workflow.
- Broward BCPAParcel, assessed value, sale history, owner and flood-zone context.
- Florida SunbizPublic company records used to resolve entities behind filings.
- Broward ClerkDeeds, mortgages, liens, notices and other recorded instruments.
- City GISOfficial neighborhood boundaries and parcel-derived coordinates.
- Legistar + City meeting calendarUpcoming hearings, development meetings, agendas and official broadcast destinations.
- RWorld + CASFOfficial professional-event listings, separately labeled as industry rooms rather than public hearings.
- NOAA / NHCCurrent Atlantic storm status and official seven-day tropical outlook.
02 · Join
One address, several records.
Permit number, parcel/folio, normalized address, company name and recording identifiers connect the layers. Confidence and provenance matter: a resolved owner is stored with its source and a confidence field, and low-confidence joins do not get promoted as fact.
The map displays only records with usable coordinates. Neighborhood counts describe the current displayed sample and are never presented as a complete historical total.
03 · Gate
A signal is not automatically a story.
The Michigan Intel Desk donor architecture contributes the important rule: collection, analysis, editorial approval and publication are separate states. Raw signals can appear as sourced records. Narrative claims require evidence and human review before publication.
- Source gateNo source, no claim.
- Claims checkMaterial facts must map to a record or document.
- Managing editorAnalysis, headlines and context do not publish autonomously.
- Sponsor firewallUnderwriters may sponsor a module or edition; they cannot influence records, rankings, lead qualification, stories or corrections.
- Correction standardCorrections are visible, dated and linked to the affected item.
04 · Refresh
Freshness is part of the fact.
The methodology desk exposes the independent clocks behind each published data surface. A fresh mirror does not make an older courthouse or aggregate snapshot current. Each feed is labeled current, delayed, stale, unverified or unavailable from its own clock.
Application, registration, recording and meeting dates describe the market. Pull, first-seen, sync and enrichment times describe the system. If a job misses its expected window, Florida Signal preserves the older date instead of inventing freshness.
Questions or corrections: desk@thefloridasignal.com
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