The entitlement calendar, built backwards from a hearing

1 · Learn the move · Cognitive verifier

A rezoning lives or dies on dates you do not control, and the one date everyone fixes on - the hearing - is the one furthest from where the work starts. Build the calendar backwards from it. The cognitive verifier pattern keeps the counting honest: the model first breaks the job into questions (what must be true by the hearing, whose task each item is, what must happen before filing, what could move the hearing), then derives each date in the open from a quoted clause, then re-checks every date against its clause and its day count. Two traps sit in every procedure. Most do not say whether days are calendar or business days, and most do not say what happens when a deadline lands on a weekend. Both become labelled assumptions or open questions, never silent choices. And the hearing itself is a target: the planning office schedules it once the application is complete. The calendar never says it will be heard on that date, or approved at all.

Build my rezoning calendar backwards from the target hearing date. First list the questions the calendar must answer. Then derive each date from a quoted clause, arithmetic shown, tagged [COMPUTED - verify on a calendar]. Then re-check every date, flag the day-count convention and any weekend deadline. Anything the procedures do not state is UNKNOWN.