Professional boundaries, payment notes, and privacy basics
This page is a plain-English launch-stage note about how Civic Infill Works frames its advisory work. It should be reviewed by counsel as the business formalizes client agreements, booking, payment, and intake systems.
Advisory scope
Civic Infill Works provides fee-only ADU and small-infill feasibility and implementation advisory. The work is intended to help clients identify what to verify next, what may stop or change a project, and whether a project deserves deeper due diligence.
Civic Infill Works does not guarantee zoning approval, permit approval, financing approval, appraisal value, rent, construction cost, property value, project timeline, grant awards, subsidy eligibility, or legal outcome.
Professional boundaries
Civic Infill Works does not provide legal, lending, tax, appraisal, engineering, architectural, surveying, title, insurance, or permit-approval determinations. Those determinations must come from the appropriate licensed professional, public agency, lender, utility, title professional, or other authorized reviewer.
Construction estimating, materials pricing, and build support may be available through Alpine West Construction & Restoration. Any construction work is handled under a separate agreement with appropriately licensed professionals and trades.
No endorsement or affiliation
Civic Infill Works is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a service of any city, county, utility, state agency, publication, employer, lender, CDFI, foundation, school, health system, or Shelterforce unless a separate written agreement says otherwise.
Payments
Launch-stage payments are handled after Civic Infill Works reviews fit and confirms that a paid diagnostic is the right next step. Accepted clients receive payment instructions by email, typically through a secure payment link or invoice. Checks may be accepted by arrangement.
Clients should not include sensitive parcel, financing, legal, title, tax, or personal details in payment-app memo fields. The invoice, scope note, and written deliverable are the appropriate places for project detail.
Privacy and intake
Information submitted by email is used to respond to the inquiry, prepare for a potential feasibility conversation, and provide requested materials. Email is not a secure intake portal and should not be used for sensitive financial, legal, title, identity, or protected personal information.
Until a formal CRM, email-marketing platform, or booking system is connected, checklist requests and email inquiries do not create a completed paid engagement.
Image credits
The ADU-type diagram on this site is an original Civic Infill Works illustration. Example ADU photographs are used from Wikimedia Commons and credited where they appear. Sightline Institute missing-middle housing photographs are used under Creative Commons licenses as noted in the image captions.
Client relationship
A paid engagement begins only when Civic Infill Works and the client agree to a scope, fee, and payment process. Public website content, articles, checklist downloads, and email inquiries are general information, not parcel-specific approval, professional advice, or a guarantee that Civic Infill Works will accept an engagement.