- Conceived: 2026-07-27 in response to the public California AI Permitting Innovation Showcase announcement.
- Authorship context: personal project, personal equipment and accounts, begun after 2026-07-21. Original application code, rule encodings, explanation drafts, tests, and project prose were created for this repository.
- Public-source inputs: official California statutes; HCD handbooks, fact sheets, and enforcement or technical-assistance records; official municipal code and CEQA pages; California and federal open data; and official transit schedules. These materials are evidence inputs, not project-authored work.
- External design material: the interface adapts color tokens from the open-source California Design System. It does not use California branding or imply State endorsement.
- AI assistance: rule and readiness encoding, explanation, remedy and translation drafts, code, and prose have been machine-assisted. No current rule interpretation, checklist mapping, action draft, plain-language explanation, or Spanish translation is represented as jurisdiction-approved, counsel-approved, or human-reviewed unless its own record contains that exact review metadata.
- Relationship to prior work: no proprietary or non-public work product is
represented as imported. Public documents and datasets retained in
corpus/and generated source registries remain attributable to their publishers and are excluded from claims of original authorship.
Source URLs, retrieval dates, content hashes, and rule dependencies are
recorded in data/sources.json, rule citations, dataset metadata, and
corpus/ordinances/SOURCES.json. See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md for attribution
and licensing boundaries.
This file records project provenance. It does not make legal conclusions about copyright, public-record status, or permission to redistribute any specific source artifact.