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Findings and Recommendation

Use the evidence your group documented. You are contributing to a shared civic record—not writing New York City’s policy alone.

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1. Name three findings

Write one clear claim for each. List the evidence IDs behind it and mark your confidence as low, medium, or high.

2. Choose a direction

Keep the current rule, change it, test a bounded use, stop a use, or gather more evidence. Explain why in one or two sentences.

3. Make one recommendation

Name who should do what, and by when or under what condition. List the strongest supporting evidence.

4. Preserve the challenge

Record a tradeoff, dissenting view, uncertainty, missing voice, or evidence that could change your mind.

5. Prepare a public question

Give New York City or another public audience something specific it can understand, question, and answer.

Evidence before invitation

Submit this handout with the Evidence Contribution Record. A group must contribute documented evidence before it can be invited to a Civic Lab public demonstration. Demonstrations may be small and local or part of a larger citywide cycle.