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17,317 development cases, 722 upcoming public meetings and 95 open comment windows across 354 covered cities - all from official records. Enter your address to see what’s near you.
City scores weighted by the records behind each, from the 63 of 354 covered cities with a full record base. How it’s measured
Share of scored cities in each band - a distribution, not a ranking.
722 public meetings are on California calendars right now, across 354 covered cities - 2,586 were held or scheduled in the last 90 days.
10+ are coming up this week, 3 with a public hearing.
17,317 land-use and permit cases are on record across California's covered cities.
Each case names the government record it came from.
95 comment windows are open right now - projects and proposals still taking public input.
Every agenda and project page shows how to take part when the record says so.
354 cities are covered; 144 have enough records for a number - 25 Good, 119 Limited.
A city appears as soon as its meeting portal or permit records can be read.
City government finances summed across the 278 covered cities with Census finance data - not every government in the area, and county/state/school spending is not included. Read from the Census Bureau government-finance file.
Reported by 273 city police agencies to the FBI (NIBRS) and read from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Offenses reported to the FBI by the covered cities' own police agencies, summed - not sheriff or state patrol activity, and not every city reports every year; reporting practices differ between agencies.
The next one on the calendars is CANCELLED: Planning Commission Meeting (Millbrae) on Monday, September 7 - one of 722 meetings currently scheduled across California's covered cities. Each meeting page links to the city's own agenda.
Cities set their own rules - sign-up forms, comment periods and time limits differ - so every agenda page here shows that city's own participation instructions when the record includes them, and 95 written-comment windows are open right now.
17,317 land-use and permit cases are on record across California's covered cities, each mapped from official records and linked to the city page it belongs to. Enter an address to see what's within a mile of you.
Community safety varies across California's covered cities: 30 Good, 23 Fair, 32 Low of 85 scored cities, by reported crime against similar-size communities. In 2025, police agencies across California's covered cities reported 90,342 violent offenses (about 1 for every 239 residents) and 382,922 property offenses (about 1 for every 56 residents) to the FBI. Counts are what agencies reported; practices differ between agencies and years.
Violent offenses are up 12% since 2021 and property offenses are up 8% since 2021, by the rates the covered cities' police agencies reported to the FBI (population-adjusted, complete reporting years only).
In FY2022, California's covered cities spent $3,419 per resident. The biggest shares went to general government & administration (21%), roads, transit & parking (15%), police (14%). Figures are the Census Bureau's own survey of local government finances, summed across the covered cities.
In FY2022, California's covered cities raised $3,458 per resident, mostly from charges & fees (24%), sales & other taxes (24%), utility revenue (16%).
60 (Good) - city scores weighted by the records behind each, from the 63 cities with a full record base. It describes what official records show about responsiveness, safety and spending; it never ranks governments or predicts anything.
144 of 354 covered cities have enough official records for a number: 25 Good and 119 Limited. A Limited band means the records show gaps or there are not yet enough records to say - never a judgement.
From the governments themselves: city meeting portals and agenda documents, city and statewide land-use records, reported crime and government finance files. Every item names its official source, and pages refresh every 12 hours.
Bands describe what the records show; nothing here ranks a government. Computed Sep 4, 2026, 8:36 PM, refreshed every 12 hours. How it’s measured