Corrections

• July 29, 2026Legal

  The Public Hearing Pack, Founder Edition v1.0, described several locally variable hearing practices too broadly. Speaking limits, sign-up and speaker-card procedures, address requirements, timer signals, record procedures, review deadlines, and participation rights vary by jurisdiction.

  Readers should verify the agenda, the clerk's instructions, governing rules, and the written decision. This procedural guidance is superseded while the replacement field workbook is prepared. The Founder Edition remains preserved as a historical edition, and its worksheets may still be useful.

• July 29, 2026Legal

  Two statements were withdrawn from the Public Hearing Handbook: that an hour with a land-use attorney is “almost always cheaper than the appeal itself,” and that such a review can tell a reader whether an appeal has a chance.

  The publication cannot know what a review will cost in a given jurisdiction, or how a reviewing body will treat a particular record. The replacement text says what a review can cover and directs the reader to ask about fees at the outset.

• July 29, 2026Substantive

  Both fictional worked examples — in the Public Hearing Handbook and in Research a Project — were rebuilt. The previous versions reported a tidy result and described a modified rezoning as the predictable result of the neighbors' written record.

  A fictional case that reports a win teaches readers to expect one. The rebuilt examples teach recordkeeping and name their own uncertainty, and each now carries a disclosure that a fictional case cannot predict an outcome.

• July 29, 2026Editorial

  The fictional parcel at 123 Example Road, Anytown was described as two different rezonings in two publications — C-2 in one, MX-3 in the other. The case now has one canonical identity: Parcel 14-22-008, Application RZ-2026-014, R-1 to MX-3.

  One teaching case cannot contradict itself between publications. Reconciled publications now read the case identity from a single source.

• July 29, 2026Substantive

  The glossary definitions for easement, right-of-way, by-right, and ex parte communication were made more precise about what varies by jurisdiction — distinguishing ownership from use rights, recognizing that easements vary in duration, explaining the two common meanings of right-of-way, and qualifying by-right review.

  Each of the previous definitions was short enough to be read as a universal rule. Land-use terms carry local meanings, and a definition that hides that is not usable in a real jurisdiction.

• June 30, 2026Editorial

  Field Reports gained two outcome classes: Pending (still ongoing) and Updated (a prior report revisited). Reports may now carry an Editorial Note added on revisit.

  An older case file without a revisit signal can unnoticeably become misleading. The classes and the note exist to prevent that.

• June 30, 2026Editorial

  TrustStamp gained an 'As corrected' badge that links a corrected publication to the relevant row here.

  Trust is earned by visible repair, not by an unmarked page that was changed without notice.

• June 30, 2026Editorial

  Corrections now carry a severity classification — Minor · Editorial · Substantive · Legal · Withdrawn.

  Different corrections warrant different reader attention; a typo and a legal clarification should not look identical.

• June 30, 2026Minor

  Membership renamed to 'Friends of the Record.'

  The PBS / Wikipedia register fits the publishing identity. 'Membership' implied gated access; no civic information will ever sit behind a paywall.

• June 25, 2026Editorial

  Field Reports directory shipped with six anonymized case files, including two losses.

  Day-one launch. Loss reports are non-negotiable per editorial policy.

• June 25, 2026Editorial

  Confidence Level and Trust Signals separated across publications.

  Confidence describes the claim; Trust Signals describe the editorial process. Collapsing them was misleading readers.

• June 25, 2026Substantive

  Evidence Bundles released as the only sharing mechanism.

  Server-side shared collections would have broken the local-only bylaw.

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