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For council members, planning staff, regulators

The official view. A complete record before, during, and after the vote.

A briefing pack readable in under twenty minutes. A complete record assembled automatically from the permit data. A Community Impact Brief that turns benefits, risks, utility questions, noise concerns, and open data questions into one public-facing story. Scenario modeling for the alternative paths. A constituent-facing dashboard that reduces the volume of generic calls hitting your office. Designed for officials with limited technical staff.

Read the officials brief

Government Portal

A government portal for council members and planning staff

A workspace organized around the entitlement decision rather than the technical filing. Active permits, scheduled hearings, outstanding questions from constituents, and the briefing pack for each project. The view is designed for officials with limited technical staff and limited time.

What this means for your office

  • See every active permit in your jurisdiction in one place
  • Drill from a project entry into the full briefing pack and analysis
  • Track scheduled hearings and outstanding decisions on a single calendar

Briefing Pack

Briefing pack generation for the pre-vote period

A regulator-grade briefing pack assembled from the permit record. Air emissions, water and energy load, generator fleet, zone-of-impact, social vulnerability overlap, and the explicit community-benefit commitments. Designed to be readable in under twenty minutes by an official with no environmental science staff.

What this means for your office

  • Read the full technical record without becoming an air quality engineer
  • Each section cites methodology so the briefing holds up at the public hearing
  • Export as PDF for the dais, or share the live link with constituents

Impact Brief

Community Impact Brief for public-facing decisions

A commission-ready, public-friendly project snapshot that turns the permit record into a clear story for the dais: known benefits, health and safety context, utility questions, noise concerns, open data questions, and next steps. It is the front-door view before a deeper briefing pack or portal drilldown.

What this means for your office

  • See benefits, risks, open questions, and next steps in one screen
  • Separate known facts from areas awaiting inputs or optional additional study
  • Pair public-facing metrics with the community conversation forming around the project

Defensible Record

Complete record tooling for after the vote

A record-of-decision view that assembles the technical analysis, the public comment, and the alternative paths considered. Each entry is sourced and citation-backed. Designed so a referendum challenge or post-approval lawsuit cannot characterize the record as opaque or developer-only.

What this means for your office

  • A complete decision record assembled automatically from the permit data
  • Independent methodology citations on every input
  • A public archive of comments, conditions, and the council resolution

Scenarios

Scenario modeling for alternative permit conditions

Before the vote, run the alternative paths. What does the analysis look like with a smaller generator fleet? With a different water sourcing plan? With a hard cap on aggregate runtime hours? The Simulation Lab reruns the underlying modeling so the council can ask for specific conditions backed by specific math.

What this means for your office

  • Compare the as-filed application against alternative permit conditions
  • Quantify the cumulative emissions delta for each alternative
  • Bring numbers to the negotiation, not generic concerns

Cost of Delay

Cost-of-delay analysis for the timeline conversation

A view that quantifies the cost to the local economy of holding a project versus approving it with conditions. Construction jobs, tax base impact, infrastructure investment, ratepayer effects. Designed to keep the timeline conversation honest in either direction.

What this means for your office

  • Quantify the economic cost of the entitlement timeline
  • Compare across alternative conditions, not just yes versus no
  • Use the same numbers in your closed session and your public statement

Constituent View

A constituent-facing dashboard your office can point to

When a constituent calls about a project, your office can point to a public page with the same numbers you read. Live emissions, water and electricity use, monitoring compliance, and the tracked entitlement commitments. The dashboard reduces the volume of generic inquiries hitting your phones.

What this means for your office

  • Reduce the constituent-call volume your office handles per project
  • Direct callers to a public page that reflects the actual record
  • Stop translating between a technical filing and a constituent letter

Commitments

Post-approval commitment monitoring

Track the entitlement conditions and community-benefit commitments after the vote. Reported delivery against the original promise. The view feeds the constituent dashboard so the public sees the same status. Designed for the multi-year horizon a single permit covers.

What this means for your office

  • Monitor entitlement conditions and benefit commitments on a public timeline
  • Catch slip on infrastructure or community-benefit milestones early
  • Audit the project record going into the next renewal or amendment

Sentiment

Sentiment analysis to surface what is rising before the public hearing

A view of the questions and concerns trending in public sources for a specific project. Designed so your office sees what is rising before the hearing room is full. Not a substitute for public comment; a supplement that helps the briefing pack address the right questions.

What this means for your office

  • See which concerns are rising fastest in your jurisdiction
  • Address the most-asked questions in the staff report, not after
  • Cross-check whether the developer is engaging or ignoring the concerns

Citable Record

A citable public record your office can point to

Every published project on LSARS includes a Sources tab that names the methodology behind the numbers: EPA AirToxScreen and OEHHA for health risk, CDC SVI for demographics, the public forum archive for community discussion. When a constituent or a reporter asks where the numbers came from, your staff can point to a public, citable page rather than a closed internal memo.

What this means for your office

  • A defensible answer to "where did you get those numbers?"
  • Same methodology citations the briefing pack uses, in a public-facing tab
  • Shareable link that holds up at the dais and in a press response
A complete record by design

The applicant funds the analysis. The methods are public. The record is yours.

The methods are published EPA AirToxScreen and California OEHHA. The applicant cannot quietly alter the numbers. The community-facing dashboard reflects the same data your briefing pack uses. That posture is what holds up under referendum challenge or post-approval litigation.

See the other views.

Your council briefing is one of three coordinated views. The same data drives all three.

Community

What your constituents see

The public dashboard, project forum, and commitment tracker constituents will read.

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Developers

What the applicant workspace looks like

The full LSARS toolset for developers, applicants, and environmental consultants.

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Read the officials brief: questions, complete record, post-approval risk

Walk through a real council briefing pack.

Bring an active permit. We will load it and show you the briefing, the complete record, and the constituent dashboard end to end.