---
title: "Premises use and access questions (United States)"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/commercial-property-and-leasing/us-premises-use-and-access-questions"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a10-us-premises-use-and-access-questions"
area_id: "A10"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A10-T1-R5", "A10-T1-R7", "A10-B2-1"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# 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.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/commercial-property-and-leasing/us-premises-use-and-access-questions  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Commercial Property & Leasing](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/commercial-property-and-leasing.md)
- Jurisdictions: United States
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the authority it cites, for United States.

## 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](https://ailawframework.com/practice/commercial-property-and-leasing/extract-planning-and-zoning-constraints-that-affect-the-intended-use.md)
- [Review a received lease and produce a tenant or landlord advice table](https://ailawframework.com/practice/commercial-property-and-leasing/review-a-received-lease-and-produce-a-tenant-or-landlord-advice-table.md)
- [Summarise a commercial lease into a key-terms sheet](https://ailawframework.com/practice/commercial-property-and-leasing/summarise-a-commercial-lease-into-a-key-terms-sheet.md)

## 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

## Authorities

- [U.S. Department of Justice, ADA Title III primer for small businesses (public accommodations, commercial facilities, and barrier removal)](https://www.ada.gov/resources/title-iii-primer/)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/commercial-property-and-leasing/us-premises-use-and-access-questions and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*