Authority-to-civic-workflow crosswalk

The authority records

DOJ Title II web and mobile accessibility rule

U.S. state and local government web content and mobile applications within the rule's scope · Final rule with a 2026 interim extension of compliance dates. The Title II rule establishes specific accessibility requirements for covered state and local government web content and mobile applications and identifies WCAG 2.1 Level AA as the technical standard subject to the rule's scope and exceptions.

WCAG 2.1

Web content and applications using the recommendation; legal adoption depends on the controlling authority · W3C Recommendation. WCAG 2.1 provides testable success criteria organized around perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust digital content.

2024 IBC

Jurisdictions that adopt the code, often with amendments and specific effective dates · Published model code. The IBC provides model provisions for buildings and structures, including administrative and technical content that jurisdictions may adopt and amend.

2024 IECC

Jurisdictions that adopt the code, often with amendments and distinct residential or commercial provisions · Published model code. The IECC provides model energy-efficiency provisions for buildings that jurisdictions may adopt and amend.

NFIP floodplain management record

Participating U.S. communities and development within applicable mapped flood-hazard areas, subject to controlling law and local ordinances · Current program guidance. FEMA explains that participating communities adopt and enforce floodplain management regulations and administer development permits in mapped hazard areas.

EPA 2022 CGP

Construction activity where EPA is the permitting authority and the permit's eligibility conditions are met · Final modified permit in effect in EPA-administered areas. EPA's CGP provides permit coverage and requirements for qualifying construction stormwater discharges in areas where EPA is the permitting authority.

U.S. Census Building Permits Survey

U.S. permit-issuing places and published residential construction authorization statistics · Current monthly and annual statistical program. The Building Permits Survey publishes monthly, year-to-date, and annual statistics on new privately owned residential construction authorized by building or zoning permits.

OGC API Features

Implementations exposing or consuming geospatial feature data · Published standard with multiple parts. OGC API Features specifies web API building blocks for discovering and querying geospatial features and collections.

FGDC-STD-016-2011

United States address data management and exchange contexts · FGDC-endorsed standard. The standard defines U.S. address elements, classification, quality, exchange, and address reference-system concepts.

NIST CSF 2.0

Organizations managing cybersecurity risk, including government and technology providers · Published framework. CSF 2.0 organizes cybersecurity outcomes under Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover.

NIST Privacy Framework

Organizations managing privacy risk in systems, products, and services · Published framework. The Privacy Framework supports identifying and managing privacy risk through organizational and system activities.

HUD PRO Housing

Eligible U.S. state and local governments, metropolitan planning organizations, and multijurisdictional entities under each funding notice · FY24 program award and activity record. PRO Housing funds eligible governments to identify and remove barriers to affordable housing production and preservation, including policy, land-use, infrastructure, process, and permitting barriers.

ISO 37120:2018

Cities, municipalities, and local governments measuring city services and quality of life · Published international standard; revision project noted. ISO 37120 defines methodologies for indicators used to measure city services and quality of life.

ISO 37122:2019

Cities and local governments measuring smart-city service development · Published and confirmed international standard. ISO 37122 defines indicator methodologies intended to complement ISO 37120 in measuring smart-city progress.

ISO 19115-1:2014

Geographic datasets, services, series, features, and related resource descriptions · Published standard with amendments and revision work. ISO 19115-1 defines metadata for identifying, describing, finding, assessing, accessing, and using geographic information and services.

GeoReport v2

Implementations exchanging location-based non-emergency service requests · Published open specification. GeoReport v2 describes API services and fields for discovering service types and creating, querying, and tracking location-based requests.

The operating-domain lens

Planning, zoning, and land-use entitlements

The governed path from parcel and policy context through application, notice, staff review, hearing, decision, conditions, appeal, and retained land-use record. The crosswalk links 7 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Building-permit intake and review

The controlled workflow from project scope and applicant identity through application, completeness, fee, technical review, correction, permit decision, conditions, and issuance. The crosswalk links 9 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Electronic plan review and version control

The document and decision system for receiving, validating, routing, marking, reconciling, resubmitting, approving, stamping, and retaining plan sets and related review records. The crosswalk links 7 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Inspection scheduling, fieldwork, and results

The accountable chain from requested inspection and prerequisites through assignment, route, site observation, evidence, result, correction, reinspection, and record closeout. The crosswalk links 8 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Code enforcement, complaints, and adjudication

The governed process for receiving information, establishing a case, investigating, documenting observations, issuing notices, managing correction, hearings, liens or penalties, appeals, and closure. The crosswalk links 10 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Business, contractor, and property licensing

The recurring regulatory workflow for application, identity, qualification, supporting evidence, fee, review, issuance, renewal, condition, inspection, suspension, and enforcement across distinct license programs. The crosswalk links 11 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Property, address, GIS, and jurisdiction

The maintained identity and spatial context linking addresses, parcels, structures, ownership references, districts, overlays, service areas, permit records, and authoritative source versions. The crosswalk links 8 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Fees, payments, refunds, and reconciliation

The financial control chain from adopted fee authority and calculation inputs through estimate, assessment, waiver, payment, settlement, refund, receivable, reconciliation, and audit. The crosswalk links 7 capabilities and 3 authority records.

Records, transparency, accessibility, and privacy

The governance system for public access, accessibility, notice, retention, legal hold, disclosure, redaction, confidentiality, correction, security, and historical reproducibility across civic records. The crosswalk links 9 capabilities and 4 authority records.

Implementation, migration, and operating change

The program for defining services, redesigning processes, configuring records and rules, cleaning and migrating data, integrating systems, preparing people, testing end to end, cutting over, stabilizing, and governing future change. The crosswalk links 8 capabilities and 3 authority records.

How to use the crosswalk

Determine applicability with qualified owners, identify affected records and workflows, map each expectation to an accountable decision and retained evidence, then use capability and organization pages to frame a technology evaluation. A mapping is editorial navigation—not a conformity or legal conclusion.

Methodology

1. Define the market boundary, exclusions, operating models, and capability taxonomy before classifying organizations.
2. Require an approved official source for organization inclusion and each documented capability.
3. Keep authority sources, provider claims, independent observations, editorial synthesis, and unknowns in separate evidence states.
4. Use one primary operating model per organization while retaining adjacent scope in the narrative record.
5. Preserve source URLs, review dates, material changes, limitations, and correction history.

Limitations

• The maintained population is substantial but not claimed to be a complete global market.
• Official public documentation may omit available capabilities or lag product and service changes.
• Documented positioning does not measure product depth, configured availability, independent performance, implementation effort, customer outcome, or commercial terms.
• Authority mappings are editorial research aids and do not establish buyer-specific applicability or product conformity.
• No organization may purchase inclusion, classification, finding, or correction outcome.

Reproducibility and updates

The report is reproduced from the provider registry, normalized facts and evidence, authority and domain records, and the publication taxonomy. A material change requires a dated source and editorial explanation. Historical values remain available through the change ledger rather than disappearing when the current record changes.