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thanks again everyone for joining us for pushing the envelope my name is Holly Conrad Smith I am uh your customer success manager for giraffe here in the US and Europe um and I'm very excited to introduce the team at zonics today and they're going to teach us a little bit about um zoning data how they work to aggregate that data and then also demonstrate a new app that they've developed for the giraffe platform form to leverage all of that great data aggregation that they do um so with that I'm going to hand it over to Asim and he will give us a great presentation on how to use it so thank you so much and here we go great thank you ali um everyone uh so my name is ausim mus I am the CTO atomics with me uh Wayne who's head of urban planning and U you know everything L that um and we have sad here who's head of our digal side of things um so with the introductions on let's let's move on with the uh you know the real show um so pushing the envelope uh

automated zoning constraints uh we have developed an application which uh plugs into the giraff platform um and we'll be demonstrating that to you shortly uh but before that uh way will will take it from me and just give you a brief idea of what zoning is why it's complicated and how we use it great yeah thanks aim uh so my name is Wayne Uh I know everyone joining here is coming from different backgrounds different um familiarity levels with zoning uh so I just want to give sort of a brief overview of what zoning is for anyone who's joining who um doesn't regularly work in this kind of space um so I an urban planner by background I've worked for a number of large cities and so zoning is my love language uh I I understand zoning and I love talking to anybody about it who is willing to listen which um you know isn't everyone um so uh you know the idea about zoning zoning is a a structure of of rules and regulations that control how a city is um organized and how it develops over

time and the the city is generally broken up into several different zones um and in those zones the city will control what types of uses are allowed to be there um for example can you have residential here or is you know can you have a um ammunition Factory can you have a nuclear waste disposal um can you have a daycare these are all very different uses and so the city is going to decide where those uses can be um so so that we keep incompatible uses separate from each other you don't want to have maybe the daycare next to the explosive um Factory um so in addition to the uses um you know a lot of what we'll be talking about today is more about the the built environment the the form of the buildings and the zoning code uh will control that as well so it controls uh aspects such as how tall a building can be um setbacks which is just a fancy word for your front yard or your your rear yard um density is a description of um you that's usually reserved for residential uses it's a

description of how many uh units um can be put onto a an area um as well so other development standard you will encounter have to do with the percentage of landscaping that's required the number of parking spaces that required and there's even things like um controls for noise odor um those types of things that are all contained usually in the zoning coordinates um s if you go to the next slide

please thank you um so um zoning itself is very complicated even for a single City but it gets exponentially more complicated when you're looking at um you know a a country like the United States where there's 40,000 different municipalities and they all have their own zoning code and there's no um uniform way of laying out a zoning code um of naming zoning districts you know a residential district might be called R1 in one city and it might be called sfd 2 in another um so one of the great things that zonics does is takes all these different sources of zoning data and unifies them and standardizes them so that you can go to a single platform and compare you know locate the the data that you need but also the ability to compare in a standardized way uh one municipality against another or to search an entire region um sort of in a in a standardized way okay show me where all um show me all the areas where single family housing is allowed you know that's something that that you can

do through Zone omcs so we compile all this data we check it for accuracy we um fine-tune uh the context sometimes that that is um missing and we present all this data um in a nice tidy package for um for you to use however you need um and I think aim will will'll take it from

here y thank you thank you way uh great job on that um right so I think Wayne has summarized this pretty well um the idea is that we are combining data from very you know diverse um and very dis similar sources we're collecting it from PDF documents uh the maps we sometimes uh you know come digitizing maps from pictures taken from a certain wall of someone's home or something or or an office uh from regular camera so on so forth uh then we you know the zoning code lies in various forms it's in HTML format PDF sometimes we have to U actually grab um handbook and digitize that so on so forth so we combine all of that and try to standardize it uh not just the permitted land use but also the uh controls like setbacks um height standard so on so forth um and the way we go about it is we we um we autom we automate the whole process we have developed tools and continue to develop and improve these tools that automate the process of uh map digitization they

um automate the process of ingesting and extracting data and then ingesting it extracting cleaning and then ingesting it and then standardizing it um through the Zone codes uh that we have which can be a document of you know 400 to sometimes 2, 2,500 Pages um so that's that's a process that that's how we have been uh collecting data and now we are at a stage where we um yeah so we're at a stage where we have well over 7,000 municipalities added to our database um and we are fast approaching 8,000 municipalities um you know in in our in our repository um once we have this in our repository we make it available on our um to various Mees uh one of them being a web platform so you can log into our web platform and um search for any particular um locality or a particular address that you might be interested in get all the information we have related to zoning on that which includes Zone all the zoning attributes we have for it uh this includes the Zone code Zone name

Zone type Zone subtype we even give you a link to the actual Zone code uh so that you can go in and verify all of data on there then we have the permitted land uses uh that is what you can and cannot build on a certain property or within a certain Zone we also have another um data set we have is the controls which is the most relevant one today and we'll be talking about it shortly we also have uh short-term rentals and uh parking data in certain municipalities and that is going to be things

coming days so but this is available through uh you know as as a stand thing as well you can sign up um and get access to to the API the TR to get on our API are also usable on dra so uh that's a big you know bonus on that and now moving on to the real thing uh giraffe which is why we're here um so I I would like to mention that you know building on giraffe was a real uh treat uh the way theyve you know kind of exposed the way uh you know being able to add attributes to the envelopes and exposing all of those through the API it's it's it was a it was very easy way of going about this and very flexible um and very robust I must say the way it updates and you know goes like uh renders the whole thing it's it's quite impressive compared to you know uh some other techniques that we've seen out there so the idea is that uh you search for a particular uh address on the platform uh you identify the boundary for the uh you know the the building or the area where you want to build uh we

provide you through our API the setbacks uh sorry all the constraints which includes the setbacks the height constraints the full floor area ratio constraint so on so forth and you'll be able to view all of those based on those you can then build an envelope uh which is kind of like a bounding box for you know or yeah a bounding box of what you can build uh on that property so um and this is a short example of that um this is an interface directly from the uh from the draff uh app uh that I'll be showing you in a minute uh this is how it looks like and uh I'll move on to the actual demo now so here we go um right so starting off uh to I don't know this is coming in the way so I'll just move it out uh when you log in this is the kind of interface that you will see uh what you need to do to add the zomix app is to add click on this add button I've already obviously added this uh this will uh you can add this uh I obviously have this added you can add this through through here or from

the public apps uh you can add this I obviously have this added so I won't be able to add it again but uh it's as simple as just clicking on on that plus button and then adding the actual app once this is there you click on it and what you will see is uh you know a welcome screen of sorts um I'm obviously already signed in but you'll get some general information about the free credits you get so every time you sign anyone who signs up to theonomics app will get 50 free credits uh 50 free credits means that you can search for or get the details zoning details for 50 different properties and it doesn't matter how many 3D models then you render on it as long it's the same property that just you know uh accounts for just one credit um so what you need to do is like I have done here so you need to search for a particular address uh in this particular case I'm doing 628 Street New York uh you search for that uh shows up here uh once you click on it uh it takes you to that

particular location as you can see here uh now I can see the partial boundaries here um so what I'll do is I'll create a polygon here and let me this a little bit further just to get it

right if you hold down s on your keyboard it should snap to those Corners as long as they right it might be a roster data set um but oh right right okay yeah I think this is a r data set I added a different one uh right so what's happened here is um so as soon as I click uh the final you know I I completed the polygon this uh what our app did is basically it took this location found out uh when click you know basically called our API and got all the data for it so what it selling us is this is Zone code c64 in New York the Zone name is General Central commercial typus commercial subp is po commercial you can also click on uh this um open link button which takes you to the actual Zone code I already have this loaded up so this is the entire zoning code present for this municipality on on our platform so you can review it and you know if you want to find out some more details on it you can run through this whole thing and get those details um but more importantly this is

also giving you all the details of the constraints that are applicable to this particular uh parcel um because a certain Zone which is called C6 um 36 4 is applicable to this particular thing now it says Max f is 10 minimum lot width is 18 so on and so forth uh all the units by the way are mentioned here uh so if it's in feet it just say here feet if it's square feet it say square feet if it's percentage it'll say percentage you will see some cases where it's na a now this is not to say that um we could not find it NA means that this particular uh this particular constraint is not applicable or is not applied by the municipality for this soon um all the um all the controls given here we make sure that we look for them on the Zone code platform um you know in the in the zoning code for the city and make sure that if it's there we find it and put it here uh the if you if you see an NA here it just means that it's not been uh published by the uh by the

municipality here so what I'll do now is I'll just uh change the angle sply all you need to do is build or generate 3D model and that kind of builds that out for you uh based on the controls that we just saw so this is the front of the uh of uh of the property uh with the setbacks going in as you can see here clearly that there's a bit of a setback here uh so once the you know you can this is what you get by default right but you can if you think you can get certain permits and maybe Wayne can talk about that a bit more you can change the change this around to you know just to work out what it would look like if you went with a maximum height of 250 right so yeah just that's Beau it just quickly updates the whole thing for you and you can see the envelope has has increased um yeah so that's you know uh that's how it would work um you again another button here is for get full report what this does is basically it allows you to order a full report for the same

property through our platform uh you can go in and you know order that report for yourself if that is something that that you're interested in uh that would be that and then obviously I can um share this with anyone that I would I want to uh you know uh work on further for instance for to work on the yeah build bu sorry no worri that's correct right right yeah and Holly can you know kind of show you how you can use this envelope further to you know um actually design design a building or you yeah a building inside it you want to maybe take off from

it yeah um so I just got a link in my email that invited me to join that project and I'm going to open up that project link

and I also want to note that I see a few questions in the Q&A that is great we will get to those questions in just a moment keep adding your questions and we'll answer everything at the Q&A