Online Site Plan Review
Upload a site plan and OpenCivic checks setbacks, height, use, and parking against your code — flagging the rear-setback conflict a planner would catch, before the file is opened.
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AI for City & County GovernmentStreamline local government.
Streamline local government.
Serve your community.
OpenCivic automates zoning, permitting, and code research across your departments — and answers your residents' questions in seconds, grounded in your jurisdiction's own ordinances.
Grounded in your codeAnswers in secondsBuilt for jurisdictions
Purpose-built for every department in county & city government — planning, building, permitting, and beyond
PlanningBuildingPermittingGIS & ParcelsZoningCode EnforcementEconomic DevelopmentPublic CounterResidentsPlanningBuildingPermittingGIS & ParcelsZoningCode EnforcementEconomic DevelopmentPublic CounterResidents
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What is OpenCivic?
OpenCivic (opencivic.net) is an AI platform for city and county government. It answers zoning, permitting, and code questions in seconds — every answer grounded in your jurisdiction's own ordinances, with a section citation behind it, and your staff the final authority.
A distinct commercial product — not the OpenCivics civic-design movement or the OpenCivic Drupal distribution.
See It In Action
From Parcel to Cited Answer
Real satellite imagery, real zoning rules, a real citation behind every answer.
Worked example on real, public Tulare County, CA GIS and zoning data — illustrative, not a live customer deployment.
What OpenCivic Delivers
Six Capabilities. One Platform.
Everything a modern city or county government team needs to serve residents faster and give staff their time back — evaluated and procured as a single solution.
Geospatial Analysis
Zoning, parcels, hazards, and permit history overlaid on one interactive map — GIS-grade insight without a GIS analyst on staff.
Streamlining Workflow
Automates the repetitive research and cross-referencing between systems, so staff move applications forward instead of chasing information.
Auto Site Plan Review
Checks setbacks, height, use, and parking against your code automatically — surfacing conflicts before a planner opens the file.
Answer Constituent Questions Online
Residents and developers get accurate, cited answers any time — fewer counter visits, fewer repeat calls to staff.
Saving Staff Time
Hours back every week on routine lookups and code interpretation — redirected to the judgment calls only your team can make.
Seamless Integrations
Layers on top of your existing permitting, GIS, and identity systems — no rip-and-replace, connected through their published APIs.
Designed with WCAG 2.1 AA, Section 508, and ADA Title II in mind on every public-facing screen — see our accessibility approach.
Vision & 3D Analysis
Sees your plans. Reasons in 3D.
OpenCivic doesn't just read your code — it reads a submitted site plan, checks it against your standards, and models what the parcel can actually hold in three dimensions. One real parcel, three lenses.
Application Assistant
Residents and applicants get a plain-language pre-check — the assistant reads the submitted plan, extracts what's there, and lists exactly what's missing, so staff receive complete applications.
See it live3D Buildable Envelope
Model what a parcel can actually hold — setback- and height-clipped buildable volume in three dimensions, so applicants and staff see the real envelope, not a flat number.
See it live2-WeekTime to deploy
24/7Public availability
100%Grounded in your code
The 2-week figure covers OpenCivic's own technical kickoff — total time to public launch also depends on your jurisdiction's procurement, legal, and security review.
Why OpenCivic
Grounded. Spatial. Explainable.
Plenty of tools chat about documents. Plenty of maps show parcels. Government work needs both at once — plus an answer you can defend at the counter, in an appeal, or at a hearing. OpenCivic is built on all three.
Grounded in your ordinance
Every answer cites the code section it came from, and your staff's verified answers override the model on the questions that matter most — the system defers to your planners, not the other way around.
Live, parcel-level spatial
Answers query your GIS at question time — the actual parcel, its zoning, overlays, hazards, and what surrounds it. Not a chatbot summarizing a PDF of your code from memory.
Work products, not just chat
One click turns research into the paperwork: parcel analysis reports and draft zoning-verification letters with the citations attached — ready for staff to review, edit, and sign.
The GovTech pioneer for city & county government
Big enough to transform,
small enough to deliver a specialized solution.
Enterprise-grade AI infrastructure with the focus of a specialist — every deployment is configured to one jurisdiction's code, data, and workflows. You get the rigor of a platform and the precision of a partner.
Bring OpenCivic to your jurisdiction
See a tailored walkthrough on your own code and data — live in about two weeks.