Accepted on July 18, 2026.
NOD and NOE packages can contain contact information, project descriptions, locations, and unpublished materials. Current evidence supports technical preflight checks, but not a hosted product or legal-analysis system.
Version 0.1 will be an installable Python library and command-line interface. It will process local directories or ZIP archives, write local reports, make no runtime network calls, and use deterministic checks only.
Version 0.1 will not include:
- A server, database, or account system.
- Cloud storage or telemetry.
- CEQA Submit scraping or an undocumented integration.
- OCR transformations that alter source documents.
- AI or model-based findings.
- Legal sufficiency or accessibility certification.
This lowers privacy, security, procurement, and operational risk. It also means the initial user interface is less convenient for some planners. A local browser or desktop shell may be considered only after pilot evidence shows that the core checks are useful and users need a different interaction model.