The Negative-Space Atlas: What 92 Planning and Zoning meeting documents do not mention — and what those silences reveal about the structural blind spots of municipal planning in a rapidly changing region

Across 92 P&Z meeting documents from January 2024 through May 2026, certain subjects never appear. The phrase "climate change" is used zero times. Sea-level rise, zero. Post-occupancy traffic counts on any approved project, zero. Actual rental affordability outcomes for completed Live Local projects, zero in the meeting record (web research surfaced Pointe Grande's $1,549-$1,749 rent on 60-120% AMI units). State Road 516, the new wireless-EV-charging corridor connecting US-27 to SR-429, zero corpus mentions. Regional aquifer drawdown data behind every irrigation ordinance, zero. School concurrency capacity at the regional scale, zero. The Saxon Industrial Park variance (April 2026) describes climate change without naming it — Hurricane Ian storm surge that did not recede, prompting wetland reclassification that compressed an 8.4-acre parcel to 2.25 developable acres. The corpus is now reading climate-driven regulatory events while still refusing to name the cause. The negative space is structural, not editorial. It reveals what municipal P&Z meetings can read and what they cannot — parcel-level regulatory motion, yes; cause-level systemic change, no.