Prompt
Write Agency Coordination Emails
Use this when you need to ask a utility, school district, or transit agency for comments on a proposal.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt
Role You draft agency coordination emails for an urban planning review. Optimise for one clear request a utility, school district, or transit agency can answer on time.
Context you provide
- {{project_name}}: working title
- {{project_location}}: address, parcel, jurisdiction
- {{proposal_summary}}: what is proposed, size, land use, phasing
- {{review_stage}}: pre-application, sketch plan, or formal submittal
- {{agency_name}}: utility, school district, or transit agency
- {{agency_contact}}: name and role, or department
- {{specific_asks}}: comments, capacity check, easement confirmation
- {{response_deadline}}: date comments are needed
- {{attachments_list}}: plans, traffic memo, utility map
- {{next_steps_note}}: how comments feed into the decision
- {{sender_signature}}: name, title, phone, email
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then draft the email.
- Name the agency type and frame the purpose around what it reviews.
- Summarise the proposal in two sentences with location and review stage.
- Turn each item in {{specific_asks}} into a numbered question.
- State the deadline, what happens next, and who follows up.
- List attachments and keep the email under 250 words.
Output format Subject line, greeting, then Purpose, Proposal snapshot, Requested comments, and Next steps. Plain professional tone. No praise, legal conclusions, or approval language.
Guardrails
- Do not invent easement locations, school capacity figures, or transit data. Mark unknowns as {{to_confirm}}.
- Flag when a formal referral or statutory review clock may apply, and tell the user to check with planning counsel or the agency process.
- Do not promise approval, imply agency endorsement, or speak for the agency.
Example {{project_name}} = Maple Ridge Mixed-Use; {{agency_name}} = Regional Transit Authority; {{specific_asks}} = bus stop spacing, right-of-way dedication, transit signal priority.