OpenHall turns everything your local government publishes into plain answers, a free lot report for any address, and a straight line to the right desk. Your residents walk in already knowing what they need.
Do I need a permit for a backyard fire right now?No. 214
No. Recreational fires are exempt from the open burning rules and are currently allowed 1. Category 2 and 3 open burning is still prohibited 2.
It has to be for cooking or heat, in a fire pit no larger than 24 inches across 1.
A real answer from the live Campbell River site, built entirely from the City’s published pages.
Everything you publish, in one place, answered the way people actually ask.
A plain answer in seconds, any hour, with your page linked under it, and the right phone number the first time.
Fewer repeat calls. Questions the records can’t answer arrive as written notes, already worked out, at the right desk.
A monthly report of what residents asked and where they got stuck. Which pages fail people, in numbers.
A free lot report for any address: zone, what can be built, setbacks, and flood, stream and farmland flags. Your community reads as easy to build in.
BC communities are already funded to speed up approvals and digitize permitting. OpenHall is that work, facing the public.
A guide people can’t trust is worse than none. So accuracy is the service, not a feature.
Faster approvals and clearer information have been funded for years. The front door is still missing.
Built entirely from the City’s published pages, with nothing sent by the City.
City pages loaded across taxes, utilities, garbage, permits, zoning, parks, safety and council.
department contacts, so every answer ends with the right number.
for a free lot report on any address in the city.
Nothing to install and no new system for staff to learn.
Your website, bylaws, schedules, fees and contacts. You don’t send us anything to start.
Anything we’ve read wrong, your reading wins, and it’s fixed everywhere.
At your own address, linked from your site, under your community’s name.
New bylaws, new rates, new schedules, picked up as you publish them.
It doesn’t replace anyone. In most communities there aren’t enough people at the counter to begin with. OpenHall gives the people you have their time back.
It doesn’t give legal advice or make decisions. It explains what your published records say, links the page, and hands anything else to your staff.
It doesn’t own your information. Your records stay yours. Residents’ notes go to your staff, and the question log is anonymous.
We’re setting up OpenHall with a small group of BC communities first. Founding communities shape what gets built and pay a founding rate.
One published price for everyone after that, set by population. No setup fee.