About this site

An independent explainer about how metropolitan transportation and land use planning works, written for residents rather than practitioners.

Looking across a city from a high vantage point

This site is not operated by any government agency and has no role in any official process. It exists because the primary documents are public but almost unreadable without context, and the context is rarely written down anywhere a resident would find it.

How material here is prepared

Descriptions of process follow published plans and adopted procedures.
Where practice differs from procedure, that is said plainly rather than smoothed over.
Numbers are not quoted unless the source and the date are known.
Nothing here is legal, engineering or financial advice.

Corrections

Planning procedures change, and pages here can fall out of date between revisions. Where a page conflicts with a current adopted document, the adopted document is correct and the page is wrong.