Tools for exploring zoning, comprehensive plans, housing policy, transportation planning, and community engagement — drawn from Stanford, UC Berkeley, UW Madison, and UNC curricula.
Understand what your city's zoning and comprehensive plans actually say: browse land classification plans, experiment with hypotheticals (what if duplexes were allowed?), connect housing policy and smart growth to official documents, and find the next participatory plan-making opportunity in your neighborhood.
Manage a neighborhood association's comprehensive plan engagement: create working groups by planning topic (housing policy, transportation planning, environmental impact assessment), track participation diversity, aggregate positions into a draft neighborhood document, and schedule speakers for council hearings.
Manage the intake and workflow for development applications: completeness check, department distribution, neighborhood notification, staff report drafting, and hearing scheduling — each case type following its own templated workflow with the institutional memory of comparable past decisions.
Lead a long-range regional transportation plan update: define scenarios (smart growth, urban growth management, trend continuation), evaluate projects for performance under each scenario, run sensitivity analysis on regional goals weights, and produce the plan document with full traceability from goals to project list.
Review local housing element updates for state compliance: evaluate site inventory, density sufficiency for affordable housing, environmental impact assessment adequacy, community engagement quality, and transportation planning consistency — every finding documented with statutory citation and defensible in litigation.
