Tortoise Shell
More ways to engage with the public.
Surveys, maps, document comments and live sessions all run from one project page, so people take part the way that suits them, and the team reads every answer in the same workspace.
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The valley as it is today, with the wash corridor and the habitat blocks laid over the same drawing.
From an idea to public results.
Six stages from an empty project to published results, each one a thing a person does inside the workspace.
Built from modules.
Plan review, maps, surveys, polls, comments, events, updates and results. Switch one on and it appears on the project's public page.
5 of 8 enabled · the public page carries these
Six tools, one project.
Six tools on the same public page, with every answer landing in the same workspace. Open one to see it at work.
Comment on the page it concerns.
A resident reads the plan, picks the page, and leaves the comment on the drawing itself. Every note stays with that page, kept as written.
Draft page 47 of 118 · read only
Comments on page 47
2Marcus Reed
Biodiversity · page 50
Saddleback Road is where the wildlife movement map and the crash map overlap. That is the crossing to fix first.
Luis Ortega
Biodiversity · page 47
Keep the wash corridor open. It floods, and it is the only connected habitat left inside the planning area.
Every comment stays with the page it was made on. Originals are never replaced by a summary.
Where people would put it.
Project layers with public input placed on top: points, lines and areas, a photograph where one was attached, and the density read as where people wrote rather than as a vote.
Every question reported on its own.
Single choice, multiple choice, ranking, priority allocation, scale and open response. Each question totals its own answers, so nothing is buried in an average.
Which issues should receive the most attention as Creosote Valley grows?
Multiple Choice · every question optional · no account needed
The share each answer received is drawn behind the choice. Multiple selections are allowed, so the answers do not sum to the number of responses.
In the room, not only online.
A presentation the room joins on its own phones. The slide, the question, and the answer as it arrives, on every phone and on the screen at the front.
Live · slide 6 · poll
Open
Which route should the greenway take?
Tap an answer · answered on the room's phones
Illustrative · a session from the demonstration project
Everything stays on the record.
Documents keep their versions, files stay with the project, and what a person wrote is kept as they wrote it, so a decision can be read back years later.
- Draft Creosote Valley 2045 Area PlanDraft 4In Review
- Habitat & Wildlife Movement Assessment1.0Published
- Existing Conditions Report1.0Published
- Community Survey Summary, 20251.0Published
Meet Olive, your new assistant.
She drafts the reply to a comment, pulls the research behind it, and writes the project update. A person reads everything before it sends.
Comment · Creosote Valley, page 50
“The wash floods every monsoon. If the trail runs along it, where does the water go?”
Resident, via the public review
Olive
Draft reply“The plan keeps the wash itself as open space and sets the trail on the bench above it, so the water keeps its channel. Your note is filed under Habitat & Connectivity, alongside 684 others about the same crossing.”
Your planner reads it before it sends
From public input to insight.
Every comment, map point and answer is read together, so the themes and the action that follows are drawn from the record rather than from memory.
- Comments counted
- 2,539
- Residents took part
- 3,184
- Themes collected
- 5
05 · Proposed action
AI drafted · B-04Wildlife crossing structures on Saddleback Road
Results and metrics.
Participants, responses, map comments and document comments, each counted the same way every time. The same record leaves as a PDF or a spreadsheet, already laid out.
3,184
Participants
People who took part
2,447
Survey responses
Completed surveys
1,062
Map comments
Points, lines and areas
738
Document comments
Filed against a page
Participation is self-selected, so every figure reads as what was said and how often, never as a sample of the valley.
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