Eliot Fisher / projects

A question, then a tool.

Practical tools and applied planning, built around the people who need to use them.

A question, then a tool

Built for a real problem.

Selected projects / 01—02

01 / Local rules · Public access

Built as a way to learn with AI during my summer practicum, informed by my experience in land-use planning.

Working tool

Atlas

The problem: For East Hampton residents, finding the rule that applies to a property can mean hours spent navigating town code. The information is public; making sense of it takes work.
The solution: A town code reader that organizes local rules around the questions people need to answer, making the source easier to find and understand.
Explore next: Explore the tool and follow a question back to the town code.

Explore Atlas

02 / Ocean observing · Collaborative research

Ocean Evidence Commons research platform

Developed during my summer practicum with the Center for Ocean Leadership, UCAR.

Working prototype

Ocean Evidence Commons

The problem: Researchers compiling economic evidence for ocean observing need to connect findings across publications without losing the sources and context behind each claim.
The solution: A shared research prototype for gathering economic evidence supporting the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), with findings connected to their sources.
Explore next: Explore the prototype and examine the evidence behind a finding.

Explore Ocean Evidence Commons

From planning to practice.

Site design · Water quality

Applied work connects the research to a place, a community, and a practical decision.

Site design · Water quality

Clearwater Beach Parking Lot

A proposed permeable-paving redesign to reduce stormwater runoff into Hog Creek, carried through to a funded grant application. Construction did not proceed because of zoning complications.

Grant awarded$63,446