From planning for mega storms to streamlining zoning approvals, artificial intelligence tools are bringing efficiency and new modeling capabilities to local governments. Ira Gonzalez, Co-Managing Partner of the firm’s Miami Office, and former Chief of Operations for code enforcement at the city of Miami spoke with Law360 about how local governments and developers can benefit from AI. Ira said, “I think it all goes back to how most major cities are looking to be more innovative and build more sustainability and resiliency. Whether it’s housing, health, traffic or quality planning, all these information points in those various sectors come together to create a more informed decision as to what you want your city to look like.” He added, “With traffic forecasting, for example, you’re using all that big data to understand how it is that you can take these spatial distribution patterns, jobs and housing together into one center point of information. I think that’s what’s been lacking over the years, where AI really helps the process.”
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