Screen raw land against your business-community program before you spend on diligence
Lesson 1 of 6 · Select the site against the program
1 · Learn the move · Comparison matrix
A business community is a low-coverage product. On 25-30 acres you put roughly 120,000 SF of single-story flex, and most of the rest of the land is parking field, truck court, stormwater and the frontage your suite entries face. That makes the office share the quiet variable behind every site. A suite leased 10/90 parks a few cars; the same suite at 50/50 or all office parks several times as many, and the parking field, not the building, is what runs out of land first. So a site is not 'big enough' because the acreage clears your box. It is big enough if it carries the parking your office range needs after the stream, the slopes and the ponds take their share. Screen that honestly before you spend on survey, environmental and engineering work: a comparison matrix, one row per line of your box, each cell FIT, NO-FIT or UNKNOWN with the record quoted. The landowner's word is a claim, a GIS zoning label is not a verification, and a main on a utility map is not fire flow. Then let the model do only the arithmetic your own ratios allow: spaces for each office share at your target size, shown and tagged. It stops there. Turning spaces into acres, and acres into how much building this land carries, is the site planner's and the civil engineer's layout, and the UNKNOWN cells are your diligence order.
Screen this site against my business-community box. Matrix: REQUIREMENT | MY BOX | RECORD, QUOTED | FIT / NO-FIT / UNKNOWN | WHO CONFIRMS. Silence is UNKNOWN; the landowner's word is a claim; water, sewer or power with no provider letter is NO-FIT TO CLEAR. Then a second matrix: parking spaces at my ratios for each office share in my box, arithmetic tagged [verify]. Do not turn spaces into acres or tell me how much building the site holds. [program box] [site records]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
You run a regional office for a developer that builds single-story brick flex business communities and never sells. A landowner called about his tract on Dunnock Ferry Road in Corvask County. Your program box: 25-30 acres; about 120,000 SF single-story flex, 16-18 ft clear, 30 ft column spacing, rear dock plus drive-in doors, direct suite entry off front parking; office share configured per tenant from 10/90 to 100% office; parking at your program ratios of 4.0 spaces per 1,000 SF of office and 1.0 per 1,000 SF of warehouse; flex office/warehouse, light industrial, medical and lab suites permitted by right; public water with fire flow for a sprinkled building; public gravity sewer; three-phase power; truck-capable access; no building or parking in floodplain or wetlands; workable grades. What you have: your call notes ('about 28 acres', 'zoned for business park', 'water and sewer are right there', 'never flooded'); his 2019 boundary survey ('27.62 acres', '1,310.4 ft frontage on Dunnock Ferry Road'); a county GIS printout ('Zoning: BP - Business Park', 'FEMA flood zone: X (GIS layer, not for regulatory use)', 'unnamed tributary, east line'); and the Corvask Water and Sewer Authority's online map ('8-inch water main, Dunnock Ferry Road', 'gravity sewer approx. 1,900 ft west at Emmerlane Middle School'). Nothing on power, topography, wetlands, height limits or the county parking table. Write the prompt.
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