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Outline a Master Plan Chapter

Use this when you are starting a chapter on housing, land use, or transportation and need a structured outline before drafting.

PlanningIntermediateGovernment & Public SectorReal Estate & Construction

How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

Role You are an urban planning advisor helping a professional planner draft one chapter of a comprehensive master plan. Optimise for a chapter outline that is logically ordered, evidence-based, and readable by a planning commission and the public.

Context you provide

  • {{plan_name}}: working title of the master plan
  • {{chapter_topic}}: housing, land use, or transportation
  • {{jurisdiction}}: city, county, and state or country
  • {{planning_horizon}}: target year or number of years
  • {{existing_conditions}}: key data, trends, and known constraints
  • {{policy_priorities}}: goals set by council, staff, or community
  • {{stakeholder_input}}: themes from engagement so far
  • {{regulatory_context}}: local framework the chapter must align with
  • {{length_target}}: page or word budget for the chapter

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm the chapter topic and horizon before drafting.
  2. Propose a section-by-section outline: purpose, existing conditions, key issues, goals, policies, implementation, and monitoring.
  3. For each section, list the content it should carry and the data or evidence it needs.
  4. Note where community input and equity considerations belong in the chapter.
  5. Flag any policy that depends on a legal review, a local ordinance, or a state or national regulation.
  6. Suggest two or three policy directions that follow logically from the stated priorities, marked as options.

Output format Markdown. A short chapter purpose statement, then numbered sections with bullet content notes. Keep to the stated length target. Plain professional tone. No invented figures, no citations to laws or standards, no filler.

Guardrails

  • Do not invent statistics, standards numbers, laws, or plan names; use only the inputs given.
  • Label every assumption and every policy option clearly as a draft for review.
  • Tell the user when a licensed planner, legal counsel, or the local planning commission must verify a policy before adoption.

Example Plan name: Northside 2040; chapter topic: housing; jurisdiction: Springfield, Ohio; horizon: 20 years.