PALM BAY, FL (The Palm Bayer) — What is going up on the empty lot at the end of your street? As of today, you can answer that yourself in about ten seconds. The Palm Bayer is launching an interactive Development Map: Palm Bay's active development permits, plotted on a 90-day window and updated daily. It is live now at news.thepalmbayer.com/development-map/, and in the top-level menu under Development Map, between News and Community.

Here is how to use it. Search by address, permit number, or subdivision to find specific permits on the map, or zoom in on your neighborhood or any other location in the city.

The launch build plots 2,075 permits across 1,923 properties. A routine-residential toggle filters out everyday single-family permits so you can see the bigger projects. Completed permits are tracked but left unchecked by default, so the map opens on what is active. The data refreshes every night, and readers pick up the new data within the hour.

Now the part we want you to hold us to. Every marker on this map is pinned to a real property on the county's parcel map. We matched each permit to an actual piece of land, one by one. When we could not match a permit to a property, we left it off the map instead of guessing. That happened 212 times. Our match rate is 90.7 percent, and we publish it right next to the data. A map that hides its misses is a map you cannot trust. We would rather show you the number.

Why does this matter? Because the development pipeline sits underneath so many of the stories we cover. A permit you can find on a map is a permit you can hold someone to. That is the whole idea.

The permit data comes from the city's public records, and the property shapes come from the county. The map ran in a review-only preview starting October 5. The old preview links now go to the live page.

Go look up your street.

This story is also published at The Palm Bayer.