Hearing prep without predicting the vote

1 · Learn the move · Role-play

The hearing is the one live moment in entitlement, and most developers prepare for it by asking whoever is nearest how it will go. That question has no honest answer and a model will give a dishonest one. Role-play is the better use. The model plays the questioners - a commissioner reading the staff report, a neighbour who wrote in, a staff member defending a condition - and it builds every question only from the record: the report, the letters, the public comments, the conditions. You answer in your own words, and the model tells you where your answer stated a fact the record does not carry, promised something the conditions do not require, or claimed a capacity nobody has committed to. That is how you find the sentence that becomes a new condition before you say it into a microphone. The model never predicts a vote, never tells you which commissioner is persuadable, and never scores your chances. It rehearses the questions, and it checks your answers against the file. The strategy and anything you offer at the podium belong to land-use counsel.

Play three questioners at a planning-commission hearing: a commissioner, a neighbour who submitted a comment, and a staff planner. Build every question from the documents below only, and cite the document. Ask one at a time and wait for my answer. After each answer, flag any fact I stated that the record does not support, and any commitment I made that no condition requires. Never predict the vote. [staff report] [conditions] [public comments]