"Urban Zonar is a smart and portable urban planning tool developed as the ultimate on-line system that provides —in real time— the accurate analysis that is needed to begin the design process of a building project (and its feasibility studies) in a specific lot.
Urban Zonar is perfect for developers, real estate agents, municipalities, investors and architects, among other professionals."

Savings

Urban Zonar saves you a considerable amount of time and money since it does by itself —and in a few seconds— the same lenghty calculations and manual drafting that usually take many professionals and hundred of hours of work to get done.

Smart Solutions

Urban Zonar will provide solutions and alternatives if the construction project that you have in mind does not take in consideration the city's regulations. For instance, if you want to plan a building with a number of stories that exceeds the skyline limit of the zone, the app will suggest many options regarding space distribution.

Accuracy

All of the calculations are based in generic or specific calibrated zoning guidelines allowing you to obtain actual figures —according to each zone within a city (or proposed guidelines for a new development) — with an insignificant margin of error.

Flexibility

You can obtain an approximate number of the residential units, parking capacity, office areas and green areas that can be held in your building project. The system uses a form-base zoning code. Therefore it allows for unlimited mixed-use scenarios (residential, commercial, lodging).

General Advantages

Pocket studio
You can access this app from any computer, tablet or smartphone (with any operating system). This allows you to make the calculations instantly, not only in your studio but also on site.

Smart App
The system tells you what data you need to input in order to calculate lot dimensions, density allocation, density incentives, public transit benefit, and proposed mixture of uses among the most important ones.

Live tool
It’s a fully interactive tool that can give you live feedback of the different scenarios you are exploring.

The tool is available as a simple pre-calibrated version (lobby), also it can be manually calibrated by the user (mezzanine), or in a custom calibrated version for a specific municipality (penthouse).

Environment friendly
Urban Zonar considers preservation requirements within a property from the outset and as proposed by the form-base code used as guideline. This feature makes it possible to plan projects which are environmentally friendly from the very beginning of the planning process.

Real time
Results are provided immediately, in real-time after you input the different parameters which are required for the desired calculation.

Enter the Lobby

This is the basic version of Urban
Zonar and it’s easy to use.

 

It’s like using a software to write a letter: everything is set, so you only have to input the necessary information, to get density allocation, density incentives and proposed mixture of uses. Lobby performs calculations and regulation compliance analyses based on a pre-calibrated set of generic guidelines. The information provided is based on “best practices” data and building methods.

 

If you're a real estate agent you don't sell just a piece of land. You sell the possibility to build commercial spaces, a park, a housing complex, a building complex or —why not— an entire city. Urban Zonar's Lobby makes it possible, instantly and on site.

Piece of cake
Designers, planners and architects can quickly and graphically display different alternatives of lot dimensions and building capacity during design sessions.

Get your results
Once the user has determined the property dimensions and specifics, the system allows for endless mixtures of uses and parking requirements.

You can export every analysis made by the system in PDF format.

Boost your expertise
A real estate agent using Urban Zonar is able to provide his clients with a vast amount of additional information about the property that they intend to buy. For investors, the app is perfect, since they can visualize —on site— if the property that they are evaluating suits their building projects.

DIY
If you are not a designer, don’t worry. You won’t have to hire a professional to analize every possibility on the lot. Urban Zonar is the "do it yourself" power tool for feasibility studies and building potential.

Move Up to the

Mezzanine

If you know how to use the system, Mezzanine is for you.

 

This version of Urban Zonar is the perfect tool for planners, architects, engineers, and other design professionals. Mezzanine performs interpretations of municipal codes and allows the user to manipulate the “background” database (lot dimensions, setbacks, height limits, etc.), which allows testing of those standards. In other words: You can make your own templates!

It’s your call
Designers, planners and architects can display, quickly and graphically, different alternatives of lot dimensions and building capacity. These new calibrations can be saved or exported for use in future sessions by any Lobby or Mezzanine system users.

Fast lane
The system runs on the web, so it does not require a complicated installation and it does not clog your computer or tablet with yet another heavy software.

Presentation card
In this version you can input project name, location, and client to generate professional looking analysis sheets. These sheets can be exported in PDF format for easy sharing or client delivery.

Personal city
You can modify some components of the guidelines to match realities of existing zoning codes but you can also calibrate new ones.

Spread the knowledge
Mezzanine allows the users to share the calibrated databases with other users, in this version or in the Lobby version.

Last Floor the Penthouse

Advanced Calibrated Version

 

The advanced version of Urban Zonar contains the same features of Lobby and Mezzanine versions, but it’s a specific tool for any municipality which wants to have their own “customized” version.

Urban Zonar will work with any municipality interested in a custom calibrated version of the software to create the specific guidelines and parameters from their form-based code.

So, if you are a developer, and your project exists within a municipality with a penthouse version of urban zonar, this is a very useful tool, because it mirrors the likely evaluation techniques a municipality will apply to development proposals.

Custom calibrated system
There are several tools and plugins available to customize the system for all regulations, incentives, and standards of a specific municipality.

Live storage
Because all users of the custom system will access the same on-line database from any device, they can always count that urban zonar has the latest updates.

World information
As more penthouse systems are calibrated, they will all be accessible from the main website. This will allow investors to investigate development potential in multiple cities anywhere in the world.

Transform “days” in “seconds”
Penthouse does the code interpretation which might be required for a specific lot in seconds, rather than in days by a trained design professional.

Fast check
Penthouse allows to use the system in the normal method, or as a reverse study. You can input specific building and lot information and run a building code compliance check. This will save substantial amount of time for the developer and the municipal agents.

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