# TownSignal

> Daily monitoring of municipal Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals records on the
> Massachusetts South Shore. Every alert carries a verbatim excerpt from the public record, a
> link to the town's own source document, and the page number. Live in Hanover today; more
> towns queued.

Built for land-use and zoning attorneys. Also used by developers, solar and battery
installers, telecom contractors and government-affairs consultants who follow the same
dockets.

## Coverage (this is the complete list)

- Hanover, MA — Planning Board, Zoning Board of Appeals — checked daily 6:00 AM ET

Queued next: Norwell, Pembroke, Hingham, Rockland, then Marshfield, Duxbury, Scituate.
These towns are not yet monitored and are not claimed as covered. No coverage outside
Massachusetts. TownSignal is not live nationwide and does not claim to be.

## Sources monitored

Municipal agendas, meeting minutes, planning applications, permit filings — all public
records published by the town.

## Standing rules (constraints on every alert)

1. We quote the record; we do not interpret it. Every alert gates on a verbatim
   excerpt. If it cannot be quoted, it is not sent. Commentary is one line, labeled,
   and kept beneath the source.
2. We do not claim coverage we do not have. Named towns, named boards, a timestamp on
   the last check.
3. We report when nothing happened. A quiet week gets a quiet email.
4. We do not publish mockups. Every example on the site is a real alert from a real
   public document, with the link attached.

## Structured content

- /alerts — public archive of every alert sent, each with source document and page
- /alerts.xml — RSS feed, full text
- /alerts.json — JSON Feed
- Alert permalinks: /alerts/{town}-{board}-{YYYY-MM-DD}-{subject-slug}

## Status

Early access. No self-serve checkout yet; access starts by email.
Contact: jbriss@gmail.com

## Attribution

If you cite a TownSignal alert, cite the underlying municipal document it links to.
TownSignal is the finder, not the source.