Built for planning and zoning
What can be built on this parcel? Answered from the code.
Mesa is the research coworker for the planning department. It answers parcel questions from the zoning code and the state law above it, reads the whole title when the job calls for an inventory, and writes statutory timelines into working tools.
Mesa can read the zoning code and the state law above it together. The standards, the findings, and the timelines come back in one cited answer. Every conclusion is checkable at the source.
Use cases
How planning departments use Mesa
From zoning determinations to use inventories, the work comes back with the provisions cited.
Mesa can research a zoning question end to end and write the conclusion up as a report, every authority cited, ready to publish or send as written. Connected to the city's GIS, it starts from the parcel record itself, reading the standards that govern it against the state law above them.
Decisions that hold up
The decision has to survive the appeal.
A determination is answerable to the council and the courts, sometimes long after it was made. Mesa is built so the reasoning stays attached to the work.
See the full security postureDefensible on appeal
A determination or a finding carries the provisions it rests on, so the reasoning is still there when the decision is challenged.
Nothing is overwritten
Reports, datasets, and interactives keep their full revision history. What the department relied on last month is still there, as it was.
Access under the department's control
SSO, fine-grained roles, and the department's own workspaces decide who drafts and who signs.
Never used to train AI
Customer data is contractually prohibited from training any model, whether Caldera's or any AI vendor's.
See Mesa work a real application.
A thirty-minute demo, run on the city’s zoning code and a live application. We’ll show what Mesa does with them.