APA Planning Webcast Series: Assistance for Planners – Consistency, Transparency, and Trust

Guest Host: APA Technology Division

This webinar showcases how two industry innovators are reshaping planning practice by fusing domain expertise with purpose-built technology. Rico will describe the cultural and procedural shifts that occur when environmental-effects reviews are transformed into a guided, form-based workflow: by translating expert logic into step-by-step prompts, the platform leads planners—regardless of experience—through contextual considerations, mandatory rules checks, effect assessments, and defensible justifications, creating consistent, machine-readable outputs that accelerate decision-making and improve AI validation. Complementing this perspective, Houseal Lavigne & Associates will discuss EuclidHL, a large-language-model assistant that taps directly into municipal plans, zoning codes, and GIS layers to deliver rapid, graphics-supported answers to questions from residents, developers, and staff, thereby enhancing transparency, shortening research cycles, and building public trust. 

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