Checklist · Commercial Property & Leasing
Premises use and access questions (United States)
Questions on the tenant's intended use and on ADA access, separating a public accommodation from a commercial facility and recording that zoning is still to be read.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- United States
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the authority it cites, for United States.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when a commercial lease or letter of intent states a use, or when the premises may serve the public. Do not use it to say that a zoning ordinance allows the use.
Used for these tasks
- Extract planning and zoning constraints that affect the intended use
- Review a received lease and produce a tenant or landlord advice table
- Summarise a commercial lease into a key-terms sheet
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
A tool may list the use in the client's words and the barriers described in a survey or a photograph the lawyer has added to the file.
AI may
- Copy the permitted-use sentence from the draft
- List barriers a report already describes, under the priority headings in the primer
- Flag the zoning row when no ordinance excerpt is in the file
AI must not
- Must not state that the use is permitted
- Must not decide that barrier removal is readily achievable
- Must not assign the work to landlord or tenant
- Must not treat the 1991 safe harbor as met without the lawyer identifying the element and the standard it met
The lawyer checks
- The public-accommodation or commercial-facility label is the lawyer's
- Readily achievable is stated with the primer's definition and is decided from the business's size and resources, which the lawyer records
- Safe-harbor claims name the element and the 1991 work
- Zoning is recorded as unread until an ordinance excerpt is in the file
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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- add it to your firm’s knowledge base, so colleagues can find it;
- let the AI tools you connect read it from that knowledge base.
The summary, the law it rests on and the AI-use guidance above stay public. Privacy.
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