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This Week in Permitting Tech July 6, 2026: Seattle Stands Up an AI Permitting Team

Seattle launched a citywide AI permitting reform initiative under a mayoral executive order, becoming the second major city to build its workflow around CivCheck, a product that changed corporate hands last year. HUD is offering $3 million for jurisdictions willing to deploy automated permitting systems, with applications due in one

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This Week in Permitting Tech April 13, 2026: CEQ Ships CE Explorer and CE Works

CEQ shipped actual software this week. That sentence alone is worth reading twice. CEQ launches CE Explorer and CE Works CEQ issued new categorical exclusion guidance on April 9, replacing the 2010 memo with a "CE-first" approach to NEPA reviews. More interesting than the guidance itself are