Welcome to PlanPhilly’s Mayoral Matchmaker: the voter guide for planners, designers, neighborhood advocates, and anyone else who reads this site and cares about how this election will impact nitty gritty planning issues.

We know researching candidates on your own can be time-consuming and laborious, so we created this Mayoral matchup tool we hope will help. In it we’ve distilled what we’ve learned about the candidates’ positions and priorities on a narrow set of 16 issues we think are important to our readers. Use the tool to browse the candidates’ views and opinions, and select the responses you most agree with to see which candidate might be your best match on planning issues next Tuesday.

If you want to learn more in general about the candidates – mayoral hopefuls and beyond – we encourage you to check out the NewsWorks election guide and the Committee of 70’s breakdown. You can also read our candidate Q&A series.