1,050 development cases, 105 upcoming public meetings and 0 open comment windows across 18 covered cities - all from official records. Enter your address to see what’s near you.
City scores weighted by the records behind each, from the 1 of 18 covered cities with a full record base. How it’s measured
Share of scored cities in each band - a distribution, not a ranking.
105 public meetings are on Arizona calendars right now, across 18 covered cities - 256 were held or scheduled in the last 90 days.
10+ are coming up this week, 3 with a public hearing.
1,050 land-use and permit cases are on record across Arizona's covered cities.
Each case names the government record it came from.
No comment windows are open right now in the covered records.
Every agenda and project page shows how to take part when the record says so.
18 cities are covered; 18 have enough records for a number - 1 Good, 17 Limited.
A city appears as soon as its meeting portal or permit records can be read.
City government finances summed across the 1 covered city with Census finance data - not every government in the area, and county/state/school spending is not included. Read from the Census Bureau government-finance file.
Reported by 1 city police agencies to the FBI (NIBRS) and read from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Offenses reported to the FBI by the covered cities' own police agencies, summed - not sheriff or state patrol activity, and not every city reports every year; reporting practices differ between agencies.
The next one on the calendars is Town Council Work Session (Fountain Hills) on Tuesday, September 8 - one of 105 meetings currently scheduled across Arizona's covered cities. Each meeting page links to the city's own agenda.
Cities set their own rules - sign-up forms, comment periods and time limits differ - so every agenda page here shows that city's own participation instructions when the record includes them.
1,050 land-use and permit cases are on record across Arizona's covered cities, each mapped from official records and linked to the city page it belongs to. Enter an address to see what's within a mile of you.
Community safety varies across Arizona's covered cities: 1 Fair of 1 scored cities, by reported crime against similar-size communities. In 2025, police agencies across Arizona's covered cities reported 11,755 violent offenses (about 1 for every 144 residents) and 34,547 property offenses (about 1 for every 49 residents) to the FBI. Counts are what agencies reported; practices differ between agencies and years.
Violent offenses are down 16% since 2022 and property offenses are down 30% since 2022, by the rates the covered cities' police agencies reported to the FBI (population-adjusted, complete reporting years only).
In FY2022, Arizona's covered cities spent $2,390 per resident. The biggest shares went to roads, transit & parking (35%), police (13%), sewer, water & waste (13%). Figures are the Census Bureau's own survey of local government finances, summed across the covered cities.
In FY2022, Arizona's covered cities raised $2,776 per resident, mostly from state & federal aid (29%), sales & other taxes (29%), charges & fees (20%).
68 (Good) - city scores weighted by the records behind each, from the 1 cities with a full record base. It describes what official records show about responsiveness, safety and spending; it never ranks governments or predicts anything.
18 of 18 covered cities have enough official records for a number: 1 Good and 17 Limited. A Limited band means the records show gaps or there are not yet enough records to say - never a judgement.
From the governments themselves: city meeting portals and agenda documents, city and statewide land-use records, reported crime and government finance files. Every item names its official source, and pages refresh every 12 hours.
Bands describe what the records show; nothing here ranks a government. Computed Sep 4, 2026, 6:39 PM, refreshed every 12 hours. How it’s measured