Map the People Before the Notice

The reframe: the people who can delay a permit are not always the people with signature authority. Authority is only one dimension Permitting teams often overfocus on formal approvers. That misses people who hold site knowledge, political influence, technical expertise, or lived experience of impacts. A stakeholder map keeps the team from treating all outside parties as late-stage commenters. Interests reveal the review path Stakeholders rarely care about the whole application. They care about concrete decision facts: water level, traffic timing, dust control, access, habitat boundary, emergency response, cultural resource protocol, or operating hours. Naming the fact lets the team…

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