About OpenPlanning

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.

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.