CITY_REVIEW_UPDATE.md

City of Calgary Detailed Review alignment

This revision aligns Calgary suite reviews with the structure and review discipline demonstrated by City of Calgary file DP2024-00595.

City-style output

review_plan_set returns city_review_letter_markdown with:

1. Detailed Review 1 - Development Permit title
2. Application metadata
3. General Comments
4. Bylaw Discrepancies table: Regulation | Standard | Provided
5. Prior to Decision Requirements
6. Applicant options to cancel, proceed to decision, or amend
7. Advisory Comments

The City-style letter is a development-permit planning document. NBC-AE and engineer-of-record observations remain in report_markdown and are not rendered as City land-use conditions.

Municipal context inputs

The following optional review_plan_set arguments should be populated whenever they are available:

• application_number
• site_address
• applicant
• community
• land_use_district
• use_type
• planning_contact
• date_dr_sent
• response_due_date
• municipal_records_context

Municipality-confirmed records override drawing silence. For example, an existing secondary suite confirmed by City records is treated as confirmed context even when it is absent from the submitted plan set.

Mandatory Calgary backyard-suite checks

The reconciliation layer accounts for:

• parcel coverage;
• parking for the principal dwelling;
• parking for the backyard suite;
• rear-property-line setback;
• closest-façade separation;
• private amenity space; and
• secondary-suite/backyard-suite density.

A passing check is retained in mandatory_checks. A missing check becomes a low-confidence clarification; it is not silently omitted and is not converted into an invented violation.

Geometry controls

• A labelled parking rectangle is accepted only when it is inside the legal parcel, dimensioned, accessible, and assigned to a dwelling unit.
• Rear, side, and front property lines must be classified before selecting a setback dimension.
• Backyard-suite separation uses the closest applicable façade-to-façade measurement.
• Numeric discrepancies require Required, Provided, Delta, units, and source. Unreconciled calculations are flagged instead of copied.

Validation

Run:

python smoke_test.py

The test suite validates the MCP surface, City header, City report sections, separation of DP and building-code streams, applicant options, mandatory-check reconciliation, and corrections-response honesty controls.