Screen Significance Before the Calendar Owns You

significance screening deserves more than a label in an appendix. The practitioner’s job is to show how the issue affected the choice in front of the agency or planning authority. Start by naming the decision question. Then identify the evidence already in the record and the uncertainty that still matters. Finally, state what the team will do: revise an alternative, add a condition, collect a missing fact, or explain why no change is warranted. The common trap is to confuse a complete file with a persuasive record. A file can contain hundreds of pages and still fail to answer the…

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