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Getting the Special Treatment
Our Land Planning team provided site design, permitting, and construction observation services directly for Prologis, including in-house surveying, civil engineering, and landscape architecture. Our scope of work included leading the client through a complex permitting process, which involved working with multiple utility jurisdictions and local government agencies.
We also provided special treatment for screening the existing, adjacent, single-family home subdivision, including up to 22-foot-high sound walls, enhanced fencing, berm, and landscaping, as well as placing the retention ponds between the site and the residential backyards.
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Expediting the Design Through Technology
Our survey services included an ALTA survey as well as final plat, right-of-way, and easement documents for off-site public infrastructure, which included 1,500 linear feet of new public roadway extensions and a 2,600-linear-foot extension of public sanitary sewer lines across the site. We utilized LIDAR (light detection and ranging) technology to quickly gather topographic information on the 78-acre site, which accelerated our delivery of the survey, allowing the design to begin sooner.