The planning desk for Ontario development
From postal code to municipal requirements, templates, and AI-drafted planning rationale—one workspace built for real Ontario applications.
From postal code to municipal requirements, templates, and AI-drafted planning rationale—one workspace built for real Ontario applications.
Six steps from a blank form to a downloadable report.
Pick the Ontario municipality your application is filed in. Every one of Ontario's local municipalities is available in a searchable dropdown.
Add the subject property's postal code. The format is validated as you type (A1A 1A1) and helps confirm the city when names overlap.
Give the project a name, the municipal address, and a short brief describing the proposal and the variances being requested.
Select Government (municipal staff report tone) or Private (planning consultant tone). The AI matches the conventions of that sector.
Watch the progress bar as Urban Scribe checks the municipality's requirements, builds the template, and drafts each section.
The finished report appears inline. Download it as PDF, Word (.docx), or Markdown — the Word file opens cleanly in Word, Pages, and Google Docs.
When you run the pipeline, the progress bar walks through these stages. Each one is real work, not a placeholder animation.
The postal code and your inputs resolve to the correct Ontario municipality and its planning website.
Municipal planning sources are crawled and the report structure, checklist, and section requirements are extracted and cached.
Requirements are pinned to your project so the report reflects what the municipality asked for at the time of drafting.
Each section is written by the model under a style prompt chosen for the selected sector, then assembled into one report.
Reports follow Ontario Planning Act Section 45 minor variance analysis. You choose the voice; the structure stays consistent.
Reads like a municipal staff report. Objective and analytical, each test closing with a paragraph that begins “Staff are of the opinion that…” The tone reflects whether staff support or oppose the application.
Reads like a planning justification letter from a consultant. Supportive of the application, each test closing with “It is our opinion that…” and emphasizing positive planning rationale.
Each requested variance is analyzed in its own paragraph, language is kept practical rather than promotional, and the report avoids inventing site conditions that weren’t provided.
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