Isabel Castilla
Landscape architecture member, Landscape Architecture, New York Public Design CommissionWe identified Castilla’s voice at one meeting.
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“I think the location generally makes sense because of sightlines. But not knowing if it’s going to impact trees that are extremely old is very important. Not knowing if there can be a ramp that’s needed is really important because the ramp will occupy space that then impacts other sites. So in the general vicinity, the location is fine.”
Every meeting where we identified Castilla’s voice
- May 18, 2026Public Design Commission12.8 min10:45
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged
A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Castilla was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Isabel Castilla’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Castilla said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Castilla or of New York alone.