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We’re exploring how to make local decisions easier to follow.
Local government, made clearer
Local decisions.A clearer picture.
Get to know the choices shaping your community. We’re building a clearer way to follow local decisions and their sources.
Your municipality is the place to start.
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Why we’re building CivicBuddy
Your community
Local communities
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Read the original wordsClear attribution keeps information in context.
Understand the detailsPlain language makes local issues easier to follow.
Check the sourceDates, context and links sit beside the evidence.
The gap CivicBuddy is solving
Local government publishes a lot.
Local government publishes a lot.
It isn’t always easy to follow.
Council agendas, reports and public notices can be scattered across many sources. The hard part is discovering what matters, understanding it quickly and seeing it before the decision is already made.
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Too much source material
Agendas, staff reports, minutes, and notices add up quickly.
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Little context
The title of an agenda item rarely tells you how a decision might affect daily life.
Rezoning
Traffic
Public hearing
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Easy to hear about it too late
A discussion can reach you only after the meeting, hearing or opportunity to participate has passed.
Notice
Meeting
You hear about it
How it works
From public sources to a clearer picture.
We’re exploring ways to make local civic information easier to understand. Here is the approach we are developing.
Start with public sources
Start with council agendas, minutes, public notices and official reports. Keep the source links, dates and attribution.
Understand the details
Explain local decisions on growth, roads and spending in plain language. Keep original excerpts, summaries and unresolved questions distinct.
Let you check the evidence
Our aim is to link explanations to original records so you can check the context. Information would be checked against its sources before publication.
Looking ahead · Broader civic coverage
Your community. Your everyday questions.
Local decisions touch housing, roads, parks, development, business, taxes, transit and everyday neighbourhood life. The broader CivicBuddy vision is to help residents follow those practical questions throughout the year. Council-meeting summaries, neighbourhood updates and personalised alerts are future concepts, not available features.
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Development & housing
Rezoning, construction and neighbourhood plans
Roads & transit
Projects, traffic changes and mobility
Parks & community
Facilities, trails and public spaces
Budgets & taxes
Spending priorities and property taxes
Future concept · Not a live service
A local brief, without the information overload.
Our longer-term idea is to turn council meetings, agendas, minutes and public notices into useful updates about what may change, why it matters and what happens next.
Illustration only. The housing, transit and parks stories below are fictional examples. This is not a live feed, verified civic reporting or an interactive product.
Fictional example
A future local brief
Example community
For you
Housing
Transit
Parks
Housing
Council agenda
312-home proposal moves toward public hearing
A mixed-use development in an example neighbourhood would add apartments, townhomes and street-level retail.
Why it matters
Housing + neighbourhood change
More homes and retail are proposed alongside changes to traffic access and the local area plan.
Public hearing upcoming
Illustrative summary
Transit
Example update
Bus-priority upgrades advance
Two corridors move into detailed design.
Parks
Example update
New trail connection funded
Planning begins for the next phase.
Relevant, not overwhelming
The aim: updates for places and topics you care about.
Traceable to the source
The aim: links back to original material.
Our product principles
Useful civic information should feel calm, clear and trustworthy.
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Source first
Summaries should point back to the official records they came from.
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Explain, don't inflame
The product should clarify local decisions rather than manufacture outrage.
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Relevance over volume
Residents should be able to follow what matters without drowning in everything else.
FAQ
Still early.
Still early.
Intentionally.
We’re exploring how to make local government easier to follow.
What can I explore now?
You can explore our approach and illustrative product concepts, and sign up for optional product updates.
Is CivicBuddy a news site?
CivicBuddy is an early civic-information project. A local brief based on council agendas, minutes and public notices is one of the concepts we’re exploring.
How would CivicBuddy keep information trustworthy?
Our approach is to make original sources easy to find, distinguish facts from interpretation and explain gaps clearly.
Which cities will be supported?
We haven’t announced municipality coverage or launch dates. You can tell us your community when signing up for optional updates.
Do I need an account or a subscription?
You can read this website without an account, app download or subscription. Product-update emails are optional; plans for future services are still being explored.
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