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These are example research requests: questions you hand to Ploti to answer from start to finish from official county and city records, collecting any data it lacks. Copy one, add the place, and change the thresholds and intended use to fit your work. Each is a single research request. The follow-up questions underneath are ones you can ask the map agent, the AI assistant built into the Ploti app, once the results are in.

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Land and sites

Find vacant parcels where the same owner controls 3 or more adjacent parcels totaling over 20 acres.
Follow up: “Which of these owners haven’t sold in 10 years?”
Find vacant parcels over 5 acres that are not in a FEMA flood zone and have no wetlands on the property.
Follow up: “How much of this parcel is covered by wetlands?”
Find vacant residential lots between 0.25 and 1 acre inside the urban service area with water and wastewater service available.
Find vacant parcels over 10 acres zoned for residential and calculate the potential lot count from each zoning district’s minimum lot size.

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Ownership

Find vacant parcels over 5 acres owned by LLCs where the owner’s mailing address is out of state.
Find vacant parcels over 2 acres with an assessed value under $100,000 that haven’t changed hands in 15 years.

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Value and redevelopment

Find vacant land sales from the last 2 years over 2 acres. Calculate the price per acre, remove outliers, and show parcels that sold well below the median price per acre for their city.
Find commercial parcels over 1 acre where the improvement value is less than 25% of the land value.
Find parcels over 1 acre where the future land use is commercial but the current zoning is residential.

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Industrial

Find sites for a 500,000 square foot distribution center: at least 40 acres, industrial zoning, outside flood zones, and minimal wetlands. Include assemblages of adjacent parcels if there aren’t enough 40-acre parcels.
Follow up: “What about agricultural parcels with an industrial future land use?”
Find smaller industrial sites (1 to 5 acres) close to residential population centers for last-mile delivery.
Find sites for a manufacturing facility: at least 15 acres with heavy industrial zoning that allows manufacturing, with public water, sewer and power. Show which utility provider serves each site.

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Retail and commercial

Find pad site opportunities near Walmart, Target or grocery stores: vacant commercial lots under 2 acres that could take a drive-through restaurant.
Follow up: “Which of these have the highest traffic counts on adjacent roads?”
Which roads have the highest traffic in this area? Show commercial sites on the busiest corridors and rank them by daily traffic count.
I’m looking for a corporate campus site of at least 15 acres for a 150,000 square foot office building with structured parking, outside flood zones and without significant wetlands. Office or mixed-use zoning preferred.

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Ordinances

Where can I build a car wash in this city, and what does the code require for stacking lanes and setbacks? Cite the sections.
I have a 3-acre site in a mixed-use district. What’s the largest office building I can fit given the parking requirements, with surface parking only?
Name the place and say what a useful answer looks like: a map, a ranked table, a short memo, or a cited ordinance answer. Ask Ploti to keep missing values and to say what it assumed.