About OpenPlanning
Public planning records, made navigable. We index what municipalities publish and make it searchable by anyone.
Land-use decisions shape every neighborhood. The records of those decisions exist, but they are scattered across municipal websites, locked inside PDFs, and effectively invisible to the people they affect.
OpenPlanning makes those records navigable. We index public planning documents, structure them, and offer a search experience that works for residents, journalists, attorneys, and the planners themselves.
How we source data
Every record on OpenPlanning comes from public municipal sources: agendas, staff reports, meeting minutes, and code books that municipalities publish on their own websites. We do not scrape behind logins. We do not collect personal information. The original source URL is preserved on every record so you can verify it yourself.
Coverage
Each municipality on OpenPlanning carries a coverage tag that describes our relationship with the municipality and what to expect from the data.
| Tag | What it means |
|---|---|
| Official Partner | The municipality has formal participation with OpenPlanning. Data is curated and kept current with ongoing ingestion. |
| Public Records | We index publicly available agendas, documents, and code. We are not directly in contract with the municipality. Accuracy reflects the most recent ingestion. |
| Preview | Partial, best-effort coverage. A subset of meetings and documents are indexed while ingestion is being tuned. Not yet representative of the full historical record. |
| Evaluating | We are reviewing this municipality as a candidate for ingestion. No records are indexed yet. |
Municipalities
| Municipality | Location | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Sykesville | Carroll County, MD | Preview |
Why trust this
Methodology, limitations, and confidence indicators are documented in How it works. If a record is wrong, derived incorrectly, or missing context, the original source is one click away.