Permit review
Check an application against the zoning by-law: use, setbacks, lot coverage, height, before the file is even opened.
Who it's for · Urban planning and inspection
Permits reviewed before they land on your desk.
Checking a permit application against the zoning by-law, drafting a minor variance notice, structuring a field inspection report, answering a resident on what is allowed: urban planning juggles the by-law and the field at once. We train your team to do this work with AI, and automate what can be automated.
Where it starts
What urban planning handles, file after file.
Decisions that touch zoning, the field and residents at once, with a by-law to follow to the letter and little room for improvisation.
Minor variances
Draft the notice, place the request against the by-law's criteria, prepare the recommendation for the committee.
Field inspections and reports
Visit, note, document: the report has to hold up if the file ends up in municipal court.
By-laws and residents
Find the right clause in a 200-page zoning by-law, then answer the resident in plain language.
What we train
Three sessions, each anchored in an urban planning file.
À la carte training follows this thread; team training repeats it on your own by-laws, inside your organization.
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The fundamentals
What generative AI does well, what it does poorly, and how to frame it for decisions that touch private property. Law 25, confidentiality, human validation.
- 2
AI in your day-to-day
Summarize a zoning by-law before a site visit, draft a minor variance notice, answer a resident on what is allowed on their lot.
- 3
Agents and automation
Chain Munia's assistants: from the permit application to the list of missing documents, from the field to a structured inspection report.
What we automate
When training is not enough, we build.
Two automations built on request for urban planning departments, on a bank of hours, integrated into your Munia.
Incomplete permits flagged before they reach a desk
The resident submits their documents, the system checks completeness against the zoning by-law and produces the list of what's missing. The inspector opens a file ready to work, not a pile to sort.
See Munia Sur MesureInspection reports dictated in the field
The inspector dictates and photographs on site; the structured report is generated, and the history builds up by address instead of getting lost in a binder.
See Munia Sur MesureMunia's assistants for urban planning
Permit review, variance notices, zoning by-law research: preconfigured assistants, in French, hosted in Quebec.
See the urban planning page on munia.aiWhat it delivers
Measured with clients, published on our Achievements page.
70 to 98%less drafting time, documented by a municipality under 3,000 residents
14 dayson average between signing and Munia going live, training included
140+client cities and organizations in Quebec
4.9 / 5on about 300 Google reviews
A first resolution produced with Munia during the week of rollout is what we see in most clerk's offices. For urban planning, we measure time before and after on your own files. The rest is up to you: that is why we train before we automate.
Questions from urban planning
What we get asked in demos.
Yours. The assistants are configured on your zoning by-law, your urban plan and your templates, not on a generic model. The result points to the articles of your by-law; the inspector checks before replying.
The same person as today: the inspector or the director of urban planning. The AI produces a draft analysis or notice; the responsible person reviews it, corrects it and signs it. Nothing goes to the resident or the committee without human validation.
They stay on servers in Quebec (OVH, Beauharnois), under Quebec and Canadian jurisdiction, organized by address to build the file's history. Inference runs under a zero-retention contract.
Let's talk
One demo. 20 minutes. No commitment.
Tell us about your municipality and one pain point you'd like to solve. We'll show you how Munia (and Carange around it) handles it. Reply within 48 hours.