Built for every stage
of the development cycle

From residential yield studies and multifamily concepts to industrial site plans and subdivision platting, Lot Sketch fits the workflows of the professionals who plan and develop the built environment.

Real Estate Development

Speed up the front-end of your development process with rapid feasibility sketches that help you evaluate sites before committing to full entitlement costs.

  • Quick-turn feasibility layouts
  • Residential yield & unit-count studies
  • FAR, coverage & parking check before LOI
  • Flood & topo screening from the map
  • Parcel-from-map and investor deck visuals
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Residential & Multifamily

Test housing product fast — garden and infill apartments, wrapped and podium types, townhome rows, and single-family lotting — then read the unit count and parking before you invest in design.

  • Garden, infill & wrapped apartment massing
  • Townhome rows and single-family lot fill
  • Amenity space & rooftop deck programming
  • Unit count and parking-ratio yield checks
  • 2D floor editing plus client-ready 3D views
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Architecture & Design

Use Lot Sketch for early programming and massing studies before moving into full CAD or BIM. Show clients multiple site configurations in a single meeting.

  • Schematic site planning
  • Massing studies for zoning submittals
  • Client-facing concept diagrams
  • Alternate layout comparisons
  • Pre-schematic phase deliverables
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Civil Engineering

Produce fast conceptual site layouts for preliminary engineering studies, stormwater calculations, and traffic impact analyses — before full survey data is available.

  • Preliminary site layout for TIA
  • Topographic + floodplain overlay review
  • Stormwater impervious area estimation
  • Access road alignment sketches
  • Subdivision lotting & utility concepts
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Municipal Planning

Review and annotate development proposals with your own layouts. Quickly sketch alternative configurations to guide applicants toward compliant site design.

  • Zoning compliance review sketches
  • Parking minimum requirement checks
  • Conceptual streetscape planning
  • Public meeting presentation visuals
  • Land-use study block diagrams
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Industrial & Logistics

Plan warehouses, distribution centers, and cross-dock facilities with precise building dimensions, dock-door counts, trailer court depth, and truck turn radiuses.

  • Building and dock door configuration
  • Truck court depth and turn planning
  • Employee and trailer parking layouts
  • Multi-building campus siting
  • Lease outline diagram generation
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Commercial Development

Design retail strip centers, pad site arrangements, and mixed-use concepts with quick building placement, drive-through circulation, and parking field sizing.

  • Retail outparcel and end-cap siting
  • Drive-through lane layout
  • Shared parking agreement diagrams
  • Code-required parking ratio verification
  • Tenant stacking and lease exhibit prep
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Land Development & Subdivision

Turn raw acreage into a numbered plat in minutes. Generate lots automatically from area and frontage rules, or draw every lot line by hand, and screen the ground with flood and topographic overlays first.

  • Automatic & manual subdivision platting
  • Live per-lot SF and acreage labels
  • Auto parcel boundary pulled from the map
  • Exclusion zones for wetlands & easements
  • Single-family homes dropped onto every lot
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One canvas, from raw land to 3D

Pull the parcel, read the site, and hand a client a rendered concept — without leaving the browser.

Start From the Real Parcel

Click a property and the boundary loads straight from public GIS records.

Screen the Ground

Floodplain and topographic layers reveal the constraints before you design.

Hand Over a 3D Concept

Flip the finished plan into an orbiting 3D view for the client meeting.

Start planning your next site

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