diff --git a/google_permissions/ADDING_NEW_ROLE.md b/google_permissions/ADDING_NEW_ROLE.md
index af0bd3e4..8ebd3f83 100644
--- a/google_permissions/ADDING_NEW_ROLE.md
+++ b/google_permissions/ADDING_NEW_ROLE.md
@@ -6,67 +6,10 @@ For most things, it is assumed that you'll start with the [core resource set](./
 
 ### TL;DR
 
-- update local list matching your role `folder_additional_roles` or `project_additional_roles` in [variables.tf](./variables.tf)
-- add appropriate resource block to [other_roles.tf](./other_roles.tf)
+Add new role to `local.allowed_folder_roles`, `local.allowed_nonprod_roles`, and/or `local.allowed_prod_roles` in [other_roles.tf](./other_roles.tf) depending on the desired scope of the role.
 
-### Adding New Role
-
-You will work with two files in adding a resource: `variables.tf` and `other_roles.tf`.
-
-In [variables.tf](./variables.tf), you want to add your new role to one of the locals->*_additional_roles variable depending on the role type itself (folder or project):
-
-```hcl
-locals {
-  // This is a list of all the roles that we support in this module
-  // IN ADDITION to the roles added via the core rules in main.tf
-  // and that already have have existing supporting resource definitions.
-  folder_additional_roles = [
-    "roles/bigquery.jobUser",
-  ]
-  project_additional_roles = [
-    "roles/automl.editor",
-    "roles/cloudtranslate.editor",
-    "roles/storage.objectAdmin",
-    "roles/translationhub.admin",
-    "roles/storage.admin",
-    "roles/cloudsql.admin"
-  ]
-}
-```
-
-That's it for that file. We use this list to validate user input.
+### Implementation details
 
 The other thing to notice here is that three types of input lists are declared - folder, prod, and non_prod. This will allow the module user to set which role but also at which level of permissions. Why?
 
 This gets a little convoluted as they represent two different things -- folder level roles and project level roles (of two types: prod and non-prod -- or at least those are the two arbitrary types that we use.). However, the roles provided by Google Cloud fall into those same two distinctions: hierarchy where folders contain projects and roles are available at folder or project level. So, in setting them in our environments, we have to understand which are folder level and which are project level. Fortunately, as we define or update our other roles available in [the file](./other_roles.tf), we'll see this explicitly called out.
-
-We see the resource declared here as type `google_folder_iam_binding`, and we create this role by checking if it was in the input list `var.folder_roles`. We also have to use the appropriate folder_id.
-
-```hcl
-resource "google_folder_iam_binding" "bq_job_user" {
-  count  = contains(var.folder_roles, "roles/bigquery.jobUser") && !var.admin_only ? 1 : 0
-  folder = var.google_folder_id
-  role   = "roles/bigquery.jobUser"
-  members = setunion(
-    module.viewers_workgroup.members,
-    module.developers_workgroup.members
-  )
-}
-```
-
-Similarly, a project role is of type `google_project_iam_binding`. Additionally, this requires another piece of information - which environment. This then corresponds to which variable list to check it against. In the case below, we see we check the role name against the `var.nonprod_roles` list. Also, we apply it to the variable input named `var.google_nonprod_project_id`
-
-```hcl
-resource "google_project_iam_binding" "editor_nonprod" {
-  count   = contains(var.nonprod_roles, "roles/editor") && !var.admin_only && var.google_nonprod_project_id != "" ? 1 : 0
-  project = var.google_nonprod_project_id
-  role    = "roles/editor"
-  members = module.developers_workgroup.members
-}
-```
-
-
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/google_permissions/other_roles.tf b/google_permissions/other_roles.tf
index e5f40407..a374fb1e 100644
--- a/google_permissions/other_roles.tf
+++ b/google_permissions/other_roles.tf
@@ -6,6 +6,51 @@
 //
 */
 
+locals {
+  allowed_folder_roles = [
+    "roles/datastore.user",
+  ]
+  allowed_nonprod_roles = [
+    "roles/datastore.user",
+  ]
+  allowed_prod_roles = [
+    "roles/datastore.user",
+  ]
+}
+
+resource "google_folder_iam_binding" "developers_folder_roles" {
+  for_each = setintersection(
+    local.allowed_folder_roles,
+    [for role in var.folder_roles : role if !var.admin_only],
+  )
+
+  folder  = var.google_folder_id
+  role    = each.value
+  members = module.developers_workgroup.members
+}
+
+resource "google_project_iam_binding" "developers_nonprod_roles" {
+  for_each = setintersection(
+    local.allowed_nonprod_roles,
+    [for role in var.nonprod_roles : role if !var.admin_only && var.google_nonprod_project_id != ""],
+  )
+
+  project = var.google_nonprod_project_id
+  role    = each.value
+  members = module.developers_workgroup.members
+}
+
+resource "google_project_iam_binding" "developers_prod_roles" {
+  for_each = setintersection(
+    local.allowed_prod_roles,
+    [for role in var.prod_roles : role if !var.admin_only && var.google_prod_project_id != ""],
+  )
+
+  project = var.google_prod_project_id
+  role    = each.value
+  members = module.developers_workgroup.members
+}
+
 resource "google_folder_iam_binding" "bq_job_user" {
   //
   // NOTE: this uses bq_data_viewer as well as the next resource block so that those we grant data viewer
diff --git a/google_permissions/outputs.tf b/google_permissions/outputs.tf
index 8eaea88f..3fa915c5 100644
--- a/google_permissions/outputs.tf
+++ b/google_permissions/outputs.tf
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ output "validate_folder_roles" {
   value = null
   precondition {
     condition = alltrue([
-      for x in var.folder_roles : contains(local.folder_additional_roles, x)
+      for x in var.folder_roles : contains(local.folder_additional_roles, x) || contains(local.allowed_folder_roles, x)
     ])
     error_message = "You have specified an invalid folder role."
   }
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ output "validate_prod_roles" {
   value = null
   precondition {
     condition = alltrue([
-      for x in var.prod_roles : contains(local.project_additional_roles, x)
+      for x in var.prod_roles : contains(local.project_additional_roles, x) || contains(local.allowed_prod_roles, x)
     ])
     error_message = "You have specified an invalid prod role."
   }
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ output "validate_nonprod_roles" {
   value = null
   precondition {
     condition = alltrue([
-      for x in var.nonprod_roles : contains(local.project_additional_roles, x)
+      for x in var.nonprod_roles : contains(local.project_additional_roles, x) || contains(local.allowed_nonprod_roles, x)
     ])
     error_message = "You have specified an invalid nonprod role."
   }