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all right good day everybody Welcome to the giraffe prospecting session we will get started here any minute if you want to say good day drop a little comment in the

chat the chat is open H if you can administer the chat that would be really helpful y um I think chat might be closed I'm trying to figure out how to open it but Q&A is open oh great webinar chat Q&A whatever it is sounds good to me okay well let's get started um thanks everybody for making their time today we're going to be talking a little bit about uh prospecting and prospecting is a sort of a universal catchall word for folks who are trying to use GIS data to find things uh generally speaking sites uh obviously but there may be other um ways that you are looking to filter GIS data for things that you're looking for and what we're going to show today will actually be kind of a catchall for those uh types of Investigations uh my name is James I work here at giraffe uh Aaron and Holly are also on the call who work here at giraff we would love to talk to any of you who are looking for or a solution to help you navigate your site or if you're an existing customer and

you didn't even know this functionality was there reach out um we're also going to focus on the US today uh primarily because we've just released a data layer uh via regrid and onomics that's incredibly powerful for looking for sites whether you're on the city side or the private side it's a pretty darn powerful tool to help you sift through what's out there so we'll sort of we'll do a little bit of explaining on that data set and then we're going to explain the home screen and how you can focus the table onto certain workflows uh in order to accelerate and um ultimately drive your top of funnel um and we're going to play a bit of a role play I guess so that role play will probably focus on the property developer uh personality looking through sites it's a very challenging time to find deals that work and so we're all getting a little bit creative moving from our traditional modes of working which is highly relational uh brokerage type investigations of sites through to gosh

we need to find stuff that's off the Beaten Track stuff that doesn't quite uh come to us quickly and easily and obviously how do we do that that's what we're going to talk about today so before I dive in um just remember if you have any questions we want to hear them put them in the Q&A and we'll get to them as we go through much prer this to be a uh interactive type session okay so let's zoom out we're looking at my whole portfolio right now and you can see the portfolio is broken into really three um main ways of interacting with it one is our map here you can see all my projects listed out on the map and as I hover over my projects it's highlighting them on the table which is beautiful on the right hand side I have deal cards and these deal cards are basically Bally a snapshot of where the site is the site's boundary but if we click on one of these sites it's going to actually bring up the deal card um and I'll put a little pause here and say all of these metrics

here how we track components or features of a site that may may not be interesting to us these can all be controlled and managed by you or your administrator so if you are going through one of these types of processes definitely worth setting that up correctly in order to have some great intelligence as you're going through this process once you have set those up and and that's very easy and trivial to do but we'll cover that on an Administration class as opposed to this particular class let's look at um the table and just filtering our uh projects here by their status and status is just a field that we made up but as we're collaborating across multiple offices we have multiple people coming into our giraffe environment we want to be able to to cinch down on the information in our screen in order to make it more useful to us so let's go to the status column and let's add a filter I'm just going to say apply filter where the status is concept and you can see very

quickly there all of the other pieces of information update our deal cards filtered down to just the deals that are on in the concept stage and the map obviously shows us location of those deals so we can go from a lot of information to some useful information really quickly um and again anything that we're tracking we can use to create a filter on so you may be filtering by number of Apartments you may be filtering on uh zoning code or product type doesn't really matter whatever information you're tracking you can filter on so let's remove that filter and let's get into doing some prospecting uh I want to find site now and create it as a record in my portfolio like this and we're going to Tar It tracking just because we're going to we're going to track some sites here so I'll dive into Dallas you can see as I dive into Dallas I've already done some some due diligence on sites that we were interested in actually I didn't do these um my colleague Holly

did and she shared them with me which is just a wonderful experience so now I can see okay well here are some of the sites that Holly thinks are interesting and as I zoom in I'm going to get a lot more information than just the sites that Holly shared with me and that's because we've added data layers to our home space one of the data layers we've added is regd and regd is a nationwide parcel and Zoning index uh that they have put together and is available within the giraffe platform very very helpful as I click on sites I'm going to get not just the parcel outline but also the zoning information the ownership information the OWN add dress whether it's an opportunity Zone tons of helpful things but just like we were filtering on our projects I may want to filter the parcels in the same type of way particularly if we have an area that we're interested in and we're just looking for sites that meet a certain criteria so I'm quite into this West Dallas area I'm going to play the role

of a pseudo industrial developer here and I'm going to pop up to our uh live over here and what I want to do is focus the table onto the regrid data set as opposed to my portfolio so I'm just going to open the three dots here hit open lens and now the table is focused on Parcels as opposed to my projects extremely helpful I have all the same controls but now instead of filtering on my own data I'm filtering on a global data set or you know in this case a national data set so let's just spend a second talking about this data because it's an incredible data set and it's a partnership between two companies regrid and zonics and one of the reasons we love working with regrid zics is because they're both Masters At what they do and they've done it at a national scale regrid focus on the parcel information so existing land use the ownership data the tax roll information the parcel boundary uh whether it's occupied or not a um opportunity Zone does it have a

flood zone all the things that are very helpful and can be tracked at a parcel level you can see as I just move across the um table of fields that are available to us and then zonics are a nationwide zoning database and they've gone and done the hard work of not just finding the zoning code that that is in the particular parcel but they've normalized those zoning codes uh to give us some helpful clues that cross Regional boundaries one of the if you've done this before with County GIS systems you'll appreciate how complex zoning codes can be and when you cross zoning boundaries you've got to log out of one system log into another system figure out what their zoning code means and regrid is a helpful way to help us a regrid zone onics is a helpful way to normalize that data so that we can have one user experience between those different places um Holly I think it would be worth also linking to parcel schema um premium parcel schema on that um in the chat as well if you get a

chance so let's do some filtering and some investigating um first thing I may do is say let's filter for a size of site and if you've ever used a parcel uh database you'll know that the county doesn't always track the size very frustrating uh but rrid does regrid has calculated um the acreages of every parcel and makes it available to us as a field to use so I'm going to say let's add a filter to the regr calculated parcel Acres field and it's a numerical field so I'll say show me Parcels that are greater than 2 acres and when I do that giraffe is going to filter out all the sites that are not greater than 2 Acres so you see all those single family sites are now gone very very helpful now there's tons of other data we can filter on and I may do that in a second but before we get too carried away there and I want to show you the zoning code links as well let's just spend a few seconds talking about the other data sets that we have here and where they come

from so this particular space has uh some national GIS data sets that we want to lay over the top um part of the reason that we've done this exercise of bringing in data that is over and above just the parcel boundaries is because every location has nuances every location whether it's in the United States in Europe in Australia it doesn't matter there's always something that's local that a national perspective can't fully satisfy so part of draft's architecture allows you to go and add in bespoke G data sets to Overlay like kind of uh Trace paper over your prospecting view to get a fully comprehensive picture into what it is that you're looking at so if we just take a few seconds to talk through these data layers here we've got the regrid parcel data that has the normalized zoning code the parcel acreage uh the ownership information uh the land use tons of other stuff then we have uh coming from FEMA these flood zones you can see all of these industrial Parcels are actually in um a

a flood zone but it's a Zone X and so if you're into flood zones we can talk about that offline but very interesting data set to Overlay and then we have the the fish and wildlife data set coming in with the wetlands data and you can see these Wetlands corridors running through the flood plane it makes total sense but they also run through the non-f flood plane and wetlands can be a nightmare when you're doing a cplan and particularly when they run through the majority of your site like they do over here um whilst it's less relevant in my home state of Florida uh but very relevant uh across the board is Contours data we also have threefoot Contours and again this comes from the US Geological Survey just via a GIS layout so if there's something else you want to add in you can just hit create your own dat layer added in one I found really recently that is extremely helpful is the transmission lines data for power utilities if you're doing data centers

or industrial facilities the distance to a um node can often be or a Transformer can often be a very pricey um uh thing to add into your site so we've been running that and then also for regular um uh sort of multif family commercial if you have a power line running through the middle of your low density site that could kill your whole project so all of these things which certainly not uh our view here is certainly not fully encompassing everything you might want to look at but hopefully you can see just from adding in those data lays we now have an incredibly informed view of what we're looking at all right so let's go one step further and dive into the zoning data now and again if there are questions whilst we're doing this please uh please pop them into the um into the chat and I'm just clicking around here now on the um parcel map and I'll Focus the table on on uh on this again just so we can see how we did it I just hit the three dots Focus the table

and as we select Parcels you can see on the right hand side I'm getting the full deal card uh I can understand the ownership information the zoning Etc now if I want to understand what the actual ordinance means then we actually have a link here that takes us directly to the Dallas zoning ordinance and I can see okay well this is an IM industrial manufacturing District so let's just search for IM and as we go through the document um we'll get you know our setbacks uh permitted land uses uh Max F Max of density it's all nicely formatted and laid out for us to interpret and importantly it has the actual verbage as often times the verbiage can be the thing that kills us okay so I is a code let's pretend that I is a code that I like in this region I'm then going to add a filter that says only show me sites where the zoning code is I am and again we're now looking at sites that are zoned IM that are greater than 2 ACR so there's a ton here that is now within my exact purview

zoned correctly so I don't have to go through entitlement it's big enough and we can see the kill the deal killers from the outset before we spend any time on it and I can see my existing work so that thing that happens invariably where we forget that we've looked at a site we get all excited share it with a colleague and they go I looked at that site it's flood down the middle of it don't worry about it that's gone we have retained now a global perspective on our on our data set now the other thing I might do here is just turn on the satellite and try and see where there are underutilized sites uh where maybe we've got an empty parcel or a parcel that is underutilized potentially like this one where we could fit one of our standard floor plates so I'm curious in your process what it would take to get to this level of investigation and then if you get to this level investigation what's the next step what's the next thing that happens from here well typically speaking we' then

pass this off to an architect assuming that we like it or a planner so let's take this little guy here I like this site it's underutilized it's very small and maybe this guy is underutilized actually right here let's just turn off the regrid for a second nope not underutilize at all massive cross talk but let or um front load but let's pretend it is utilize because I actually like this site a lot so I'm going to open up the lens again click on the site and you can see it's multi- tened which is why there's tons of records and what I want to do now is turn this into a project and holl you're going to have to correct me on how I do this because I've never done it before wow there it is down there cool add to new project amazing so we'll say um this is potential Industrial Development and again like we said at the start all of those fields that we care about when it comes to tracking sites are now available to us to uh change put in our records and we've got great data

validation going on here because we can see I've only I can't just type Atlanta and spell it wrong uh and then it's useless from us from a database point of view we've actually tightly controlled which markets we're operating in so we'll say great Dallas Yeah we actually going to do the concept on this and the project owner is me the client is a big box distributor uh the product type is an industrial uh Warehouse um we we're not going to score it just yet although I think it'll score quite High out of 10 um it's not in an opportunity Zone it's not in N to it's not eared by the city but it is close to a highway and it is close to a railroad railroad uh you could see on the satellite runs right next to the site and uh it's not in a flood zone there are a little bit of wetlands and there's no slope so it actually it's scoring pretty well you can see I've just set these metrics up for me to be to get a helpful sense when I'm then going back through all the sites that we're

tracking um to make sure we've checked off these different things okay so I'm now going to dive into that project and the last thing we're going to do before we spend a dollar on this site before we waste time calling somebody I want to check whether I can fit my prototypical uh front load Warehouse on this site obviously someone can you know with a champer edge on the back but we want to see if we can fit mine so I'm going to go to my design library and in my design Library I'm going to look for my industrial designs and uh in here maybe I've uploaded this or maybe um some one of my colleagues like Holly who's a design exp expert has built out our prototypical designs so I'm going to take the front load here and I'm just going to add it to the project now this is a crucial little step as you may or may not know with giraff when I bring in something from another project not only is it going to bring in the designs but it's asking me do I want to bring in all of the data

assumptions that underpin it which may include cost data so in this case I want to say absolutely bring it all in we want to leverage every single piece of our previous work and then when I hit okay BLS it on the site and we actually go jeez our little frontload situation here actually works extraordinarily well and potentially what we should do is build a few of them so I'm just going to copy them around the site and uh this this may not be the best in fact we may go for a cross St situation so let's go back to our design Library this kind of experimentation and thinking through how a site mayate work is exactly what draft is designed for so I'm going to just move this scker around and maybe we'll drag him out a little bit boom I love that okay see how much we can get here and then we're going to draw our road Network now I still am going to talk to an engineer or an architect because there's tons of things that I have no appreciation of that will want