Get the insights you need to navigate potential zoning, design and development challenges for the entitlement of your commercial property with a comprehensive SITESTUDY.
SITESTUDY provides the insights you need to navigate potential zoning, design and development challenges for your project. We are expert Architects and planners that have developed a specialized set of deliverables to detemrine the development potential of your commercial property, allowing you to realize cost savings and schedule acceleration.
SITESTUDY is the fastest and most affordable site design and analysis service in the nation. The average turn around time for our design packages is 3-4 business days. And our pricing is far below the industry averages from other Architectural and Planning firms. Our focus is reliability.
The team at SITESTUDY includes expert licensed Architects and certified Planners accredited with the AIA, AICP, NCARB, and USGBC. Our depth of experience covers all project types in all regions of the country. Each planner has extensive experience working as city planners.
Our expert planners follow an effective 5-step process for determining the level of support for your project. This process has been developed through years of experience and direct engagement with planning departments on the most effective means of coordination and information gathering.
Our expert Architects create robust site development plans that go beyond the standard analysis. Our plans incorporate your specific parameters, along with elevation, topography, and flood zone information, sweep path analysis, zoning compliance tables, and preliminary building costs.
Our Architects and planners have the experience needed to effectively problem solve your most difficult site constraints. We know what design parameters work and how to effectively transition the city into problem solving these constraints more collaboratively.
Start by sharing essential details about your development project. This allows us to gather the foundational information needed for an in-depth analysis tailored to your project’s unique requirements.
Let’s discuss the specifics. This meeting ensures we’re aligned on your project goals, design parameters and any unique zoning or compliance needs – setting the framework for an effective SiteStudy.
Get a detailed, actionable site analysis that empowers you to make informed decisions, saving you time and money. SiteStudy determines the feasibility of your project for entitlement and beyond.
Step 1: Our expert planners review the local zoning codes to develop the zoning compliance tables to guide the project.
Step 2: Our expert Architects incorporate the tables into the design and optimization of the site development plans.
Step 3: Our planners review the SITESTUDY with the city to determine feasibility, leaving you with confidence to Go forward.
Our team at SiteStudy is made up of licensed professionals dedicated to unlocking the potential of your site. We are architects, engineers and planners committed to the value of SiteStudy and the benefits to an owner.
SiteStudy provides a baseline for informed decision making on the development potential of your site, saving you time and money.
Zoning compliance tables include compliance data, standards and definitions.
Compliance Data: includes information related to jurisdictions, zoning classifications, overlay zones, general and community plans, zoning entitlements, and development fees. We also include our compliance summary, which summarizes the zoning criteria for the project, highlights any potential challenges, and identifies any questions for the planning department specific to your project.
Compliance Standards: includes information related to zoning development standards, such as building height, lot requirements, floor to area ratio, site coverage, building setbacks, vehicular parking, and driveway requirements, along with bicycle, landscaping, storage, and waste enclosure design and square footage requirements, including any street vacation requirements, and more.
Compliance Definitions: includes definitions applicable to the zoning on your project, such as maximum height, lot area and width, floor area ratio, site coverage, setbacks, property lines, landscaping, etc.
Web links are provided in the compliance tables to connect highlighted sections of the development code, ensuring ease of access to critical information. SiteStudy planners ensure the owner has direct access to the most critical information on the entitlement of their project.
Design parameters generally include property and subdivision boundaries, adjacent streets and buildings, proposed buildings and/or additions, building use areas, standard, specialty, and ADA parking, short-term and long-term bicycle storage, curb cuts, entry, two-way and emergency vehicle drives, landscaped and hardscaped areas, ADA pathways, electrical transformers, waste enclosures, fencing, gates, monument signs, and more.
Additional parameters vary by project, but can include stormwater containment areas, retention walls, security fencing, operable gates, drive throughs, order confirmation boards, roll up doors, drop off/loading areas, loading docks, parking structures, and more.
Project data tables are also provided and include:
Sweep path analysis is a vehicular turn simulation through the site. It’s used as a tool to influence the site development plans, such as parking space locations, drive junctions and widths, location and sizing of curb returns, and drop-off/loading areas.
Vehicle path options include the selection of specific vehicle classification types, such as:
The intended site use of the site will determine the selection of vehicle classification types, such as:
Incorporating a sweep path analysis is a crucial step in understanding the functionality of your development plan.
Square foot cost estimating is included to provide preliminary pricing for new building construction portion of your project. Cost data is updated quarterly and based on the local market conditions of your site.
Understanding the impact of costs is a critical step at any point in your project. Additional Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) estimates can be provided by SiteStudy as a Phase 2 service and beyond.
The site development plans in your SiteStudy can be used as the basis of design for your architectural and engineering teams. We provide the CAD files to your design teams should you decide to move forward with the project after the completion of services.
Conventional site planning can make up anywhere from 7-10% of the design fees on a project and include multiple consultants for the owner to manage. SiteStudy provides the owner with a single source for all information, at a fraction of those fees. The service pays for itself multiple times over.
Our team at SiteStudy can manage any Phase 2 services needed for your project, including:
SiteStudy incorporates full-service architectural, engineering and planning teams to manage your project from start to finish, anywhere in the country.
