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CUPERTINO, CA – The City of Cupertino has partnered with software applications company Gridics to bring simplicity, transparency, and efficiency to what can otherwise be a confusing and time-consuming development design process.

Residents who visit City Hall to discuss the redevelopment of their homes can now view their properties’ full building potential in an easily interpreted 3-D environment. The Gridics software tool takes into account the zoning codes for every property in Cupertino and creates a 3-D model of buildings using permitted property size, heights, and setbacks.

“While this tool isn’t capable of designing a home for our residents, it does allow our residents to walk away with a better visualization of what they can do with their property based on our City’s zoning code,” Mayor Steven Scharf said. “The City continues to try and simplify its processes, and this is a great step forward.”

The tool also benefits the City’s planning staff, who can instantaneously change the property’s building mass based on heights, setbacks, and inquiries from the property owner. Each step in the workflow has been minimized to seconds to create a more efficient plan review. Once the property has been evaluated, the City planner will be able to provide a report that summarizes the development while providing applicable code sections, visuals, and other pertinent information that they can then give to their architect.

“Taking the design process from pencil and paper to a 3-D world significantly improves communication and understanding between residents and staff,” said Associate Planner Erick Serrano.

The City worked with Gridics for months, integrating Cupertino’s GIS data, property records, and zoning code to ensure the best tool possible for residents.

“We’re excited to have partnered with Cupertino and assist them with building a more integrated Cupertino for the future,” said Jason Doyle CEO of Gridics. “Our team of software engineers, urban planners, and architects have been working side-by-side with the City of Cupertino to help them bridge the gap between text, map, and City staff in a single software platform; the first of its kind in the world.”

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NORTH MIAMI, FL, Dec. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The City of North Miami today announced a new partnership with Gridics, a South Florida based real estate technology company, to adopt its next generation municipal zoning technology platform. The Gridics platform will help the City attract new developers while driving transparency by making it easier for regular citizens to visualize and interpret how the zoning requirements in the Land Development Regulation (LDR) applies to their specific property. City planning staff will also have access to the pro version of the Gridics 3D zoning software to visually test proposed zoning changes to the LDR and expedite permit requests before final adoption.

The Gridics 3D zoning platform utilizes the requirements in the zoning text with property records, parcel shapes and modern mapping technology to allow cities to visualize and calculate development potential such as setbacks, allowable heights and other dimensional requirements at the parcel specific level. With this first-of-its-kind capability, Gridics with deliver North Miami a new and improved 3D zoning map, a platform to directly update and publish their LDR text in real time and a robust software for staff to streamline processes and better service citizens.

“Our partnership with Gridics is an example of the investments we are making to leverage innovative new technologies that improve services and increase efficiencies for our neighbors while driving more efficient and transparent processes,” said North Miami City Manager Larry M. Spring, Jr., CPA. “We are excited to partner with the Gridics team and to leverage their platform to drive smart development practices in support of making North Miami a better community.”

“We are excited to add the City of North Miami to our platform but more importantly we look forward to partnering with City staff to help create a stronger North Miami for all,” says Jason Doyle, CEO of Gridics. “At Gridics, our core mission is to do our part to make cities and communities better places to live, work and play. Zoning plays a foundational role in achieving that mission so we set out to make zoning easier to visualize and understand.”

About Gridics: Headquartered in Miami, FL, Gridics is a real estate technology company developing targeted software applications in the areas of real estate development, zoning and market analysis. For more information, visit www.gridics.com.

About North Miami, Florida: North Miami, Florida (pop. 60,000+) is a diverse community, located midway between Miami and Fort Lauderdale. As the sixth largest city in Miami-Dade County, North Miami is committed to growth in its business community, while also focusing on issues such as education, the arts, leisure activities, and sustainability to provide a viable future for its residents and to preserve the City’s rich history since incorporating in 1926. For more information, visit www.northmiamifl.gov.

Miami, FL – Gridics LLC announced an agreement with New York City’s Department of Planning to pilot its 3D zoning and planning software platform.  Under the terms of the pilot, the department’s urban design and technical review teams will use Gridics’ proprietary zoning engine to more quickly test and visualize both site-specific development allowances and proposed ordinance changes.

Today’s announcement is another example of how the Gridics suite of products is changing the way users acquire and interact with zoning data.  The platform’s patent-pending GIS and zoning rules engine uniquely unlocks the measurable data trapped within traditional text-based zoning codes and its solutions offer users breakthrough functionality.  For example, for the first time, users in NYC can now calculate and visualize, in 3D and in real time, how zoning regulations apply to a specific neighborhood, block, lot, or assemblage of lots.  Accounting for all zoning parameters and permutations (including competing and overriding layers), Gridics helps users better understand what is currently described in text form at an area level.

“Written zoning regulations play such a crucial role in how our physical communities are developed; yet trying to explain to citizens and elected officials what those words tangibly represent has never been possible in a real-time, point and click manner,” says Max Zabala, Urban Planner and Co-Founder of Gridics.  “From an urban design standpoint, city planners armed with our 3D zoning platform are now able to test whether their written code will drive the intended development patterns and outcomes.”

After years of development, Gridics is starting to roll out commercial products that take advantage of its digital zoning code engine.  By combining measurable zoning regulations with geo-spatial attributes and property records, Gridics is able to help city staff and real estate professionals calculate and visualize actual site-specific development potential as allowed by zoning.  Use-based development analysis has traditionally been a manual and cumbersome process that took an inordinate amount of time and cost thousands of dollars.  The Gridics engine turns written zoning values into math allowing for the real-time calculation and visualization of every property’s development potential on a map based interface.  The result is a bridge between the public sector and the private development community, communicating in a more efficient processes, with smarter regulations and developing better cities.

Founded in Miami, FL, Gridics secured early adoption of its platform by the Cities of Miami and Fort Lauderdale before announcing the integration of New York City’s zoning code this summer.  “New York City has one of the most complex codes out there, so we knew if our technology could account for all its attributes we would be strongly positioned to bring our zoning engine to any city in the world, large or small,” says Jason Doyle, Gridics CEO.  “We are thrilled that our platform has been embraced by the NYC Planning Dept and believe this is an early step towards truly improving how cities are planned, understood, and analyzed.”

To learn about the Gridics platform, please visit www.gridics.com  or www.zonar.city.

About Gridics: Headquartered in Miami, FL, Gridics is a real estate technology company developing targeted data, analytics and software applications for municipalities and real estate professionals in the areas of planning, zoning, development and commercial real estate.