--- title: "Review a permit application with AI · Munia use case" description: "Check an application against the zoning bylaw, section by section, and prepare the advisory committee file. What works, what we build, the limits we own." url: https://munia.ai/en/use-cases/review-a-permit-application/ lang: en-CA last_updated: 2026-09-23 --- [Urban planning](/en/for/urban-planning/)Planning · inspection and advisory committee # Check a permit application section by section A developer files an application. The inspector must check setbacks, green islands, parking spaces, snow storage, in a bylaw of several hundred pages, and the answer must hold if contested. Munia helps with search and structure; the planner decides. Book a demo See the recipe Observed use - Planning departments load their own bylaws into an agent to check an application section by section - Two permit compliance agents are under construction with a municipality in the Laurentians - A city had an agent built for work in wetland and water environments, tested on cases it had already handled Status: real use, uneven quality on zoning tables, compliance tool under construction. We say it because it is true. 01 Before, after ## The same task, before and with Munia. Today - Reread the zoning bylaw for each application - Check each standard by hand, without a table - Prepare the advisory committee file the day before - An answer that is hard to defend if contested With Munia - An agent loaded with your bylaws answers section by section - A table of applicable standards, checked at a glance - The answer cites the section, so it can be defended - The committee file is structured from the analysis 02 The recipe ## How it is done, step by step. 1. Load your bylaws into an in-house agent Zoning, subdivision, construction, site planning program. Once. 2. Upload the application Plans, form, project description. Ask for a section-by-section table: standard, requirement, what the project proposes, compliant or not. 3. Check the sensitive cells Setbacks, heights, parking, anything that comes from a grid: the AI still makes mistakes on zoning tables. 4. Prepare the committee file The Application review agent structures the recommendation from your verification. Support tip - A table to validate beats a paragraph: ask for it explicitly. - Always check the cited sections: in one client case, the agent cited non-existent sections. That is exactly why a person approves. - The permit compliance tool under construction automates this check; demonstration on request. 03 Agents involved ## What you find in Munia for this task. - Application review “Does this application comply with the by-law in force?” - Citizen reply “Answer this request about the zoning by-law.” - File synthesis “Summarize this 40-page file into a one-page note.” - Permit compliance analysis Add-on tool under construction with a client municipality. Demonstration on request. These agents are described with the others on the page [For urban planning](/en/for/urban-planning/). Glossary terms [Land use and development plan (SAD)](/en/glossary/#sad)[Zoning bylaw](/en/glossary/#reglement-de-zonage)[Use and standards grid](/en/glossary/#grille-des-usages)[Conditional use](/en/glossary/#usage-conditionnel)[Minor variance](/en/glossary/#derogation-mineure)[Site planning and architectural integration program (PIIA)](/en/glossary/#piia)[Planning advisory committee (CCU)](/en/glossary/#ccu)[Permit and certificate of authorization](/en/glossary/#permis-certificat)[Setbacks](/en/glossary/#marges-de-recul)[Hallucination](/en/glossary/#hallucination) People stay in control, start to finish The agent prepares, the employee approves. Nothing is adopted, published, sent or destroyed without a person who reread it. That is the rule on every page of this site and in every Munia agent. 04 FAQ ## Frequently asked questions ### Does Munia issue the permit? No. It reviews the application and prepares the reply or the file; the decision and issuance remain with the department and council. A connection to your permit software is built on request. ### Can it be trusted on zoning grids? Not without verification. Grids in table form are a weak point acknowledged by our product team. The agent saves the search and structure; checking the figures remains with the inspector. ### When will the compliance tool be available? It is being built with a client municipality. Book a demo to see it and discuss a pilot. ### And provincial acts? The legal agents by corpus, including the planning act, the environment quality act, REAFIE and RAMHHS, answer citing the section. ## Other use cases for urban planning [ \-95% · in time spent searching standards and regulations ### Find the section that applies, with its reference Planning act, Municipal Code, Cities and Towns Act, your bylaws: the answer comes with the section number, so it can be checked. A 95% reduction measured. ](/en/use-cases/find-a-rule-in-a-bylaw/) [All use cases](/en/use-cases/)