WORKFLOW 01 · CIVIL

Finding what can physically work

What can this site actually support?

REPRESENTATIVE WORKFLOW

A parcel boundary is only the beginning. A useful feasibility map brings together the physical and legal constraints that reduce a site to its genuinely workable area.

Civil decisions depend on relationships between layers—not on any single dataset. The workflow is about resolving those relationships clearly enough that the next person can make a defensible decision.

THE INFORMATION THAT MATTERS

Layers become useful
in relationship.

  1. 01Contours and terrain
  2. 02Drainage and flood information
  3. 03Utilities and easements
  4. 04Setbacks and parcel limits
  5. 05Net developable area

THE WORKFLOW

01

Establish the site

Confirm the parcel, coordinate system, source dates, and the question the map needs to answer.

02

Assemble constraints

Gather terrain, drainage, utilities, easements, setbacks, access, and other controlling information.

03

Normalize the evidence

Reproject, clip, document, and compare sources so that unlike datasets can be evaluated together.

04

Resolve relationships

Identify overlaps, gaps, conflicts, and the portions of the site that remain realistically usable.

05

Communicate the result

Build a map that shows both the conclusion and the evidence needed to understand it.

WHAT THE MAP COMMUNICATES

Where development appears feasible, which constraints control the answer, and what still requires confirmation.

OTHER APPLICATIONS

The same pattern.
Different questions.

TOOLS + METHODS

ArcGIS ProSpatial analysisGeodatabasesLiDARCartographic design

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