PLAN FACTORY
Modules / Permit Factory / City Planning Studio
● DISABLED — FOUNDER APPROVAL REQUIRED
GOVERNED PLANNING OPERATIONS

Permit Factory

Plan Factory’s city planning studio for parcel intelligence, entitlement coordination, review routing, environmental drafts, hearings, conditions, and records.

Draft-only, fail-closed workspace. Rule-pack blueprints are catalogued for City of Sacramento, Sacramento County, and California. All remain disabled pending source extraction, authorized legal/planning validation, launch testing, and Founder approval. UI actions are never agency actions.

Activation control

Disabled
Controlled by Founder approval through governed backend feature flags.
UI authority: noneBlackBox receipts required

Jurisdiction intelligence

0
Published rule packs available
Source geometry preservedNo fabricated facts

Review posture

Fail closed
Unverified parcel data and rule packs remain unresolved—not inferred.
Staff review required

Permit Engine

Backend service · inactive until activation

Jurisdiction rule-pack evaluator

The backend evaluates only published, versioned rule packs against supplied source-backed facts. Every result carries its ordinance source, rule-pack version, effective date, calculated and required values, confidence, unresolved data, and exception pathway.
Published packs onlyJurisdiction match requiredSource cited resultsDraft comparison only

Permit Agent Triad

Backend-owned drafts only · inactive until activation

01 · Parcel Scout

Collects source-backed parcel, GIS, plan, geometry, and document context. Preserves source geometry and makes missing data visible.
No fact fabricationNo boundary changes

02 · Entitlement Navigator

Prepares configured rule-pack comparisons, likely pathways, standards checks, and exception routes as reviewable drafts.
No determinationsRule packs required

03 · Record Steward

Coordinates review packets, comments, hearing materials, conditions drafts, and BlackBox receipts for staff review.
No filing or noticesReceipts required

City Planning Studio workspaces

Permission-scoped once activated

Lifecycle coordination

01
Applicant portalOnboarding, parcel lookup, document checklist, resubmittals, notices, and case status.
DRAFT
02
Planner & reviewer workspaceCompleteness, referrals, comments, plan comparison, staff-report and findings drafts.
DRAFT
03
Commission & public portalAgendas, public documents, comments, speakers, motions, votes, and decision records.
CONTROLLED
04
Environmental, conditions & handoffCEQA/NEPA draft workflows, mitigation tracking, appeals, inspection handoff, and records.
DRAFT

Parcel & GIS canvas

No parcel selected · GIS provider not connected
  • Layers: zoning, overlays, flood, hazards, utilities, transit, historic, aerials
  • Tools: measure, buffer, setbacks, adjacent parcels, annotations, 2D / 3D
  • Rule results: source ordinance, version, date, value, confidence, exception pathway