What we do with our coined PDA, standing for property, development, and analysis, is come up with the full game plan and strategy for your design team and you as a client looking at the abilities for a property with its future development potential

We found an important role advising project teams and clients on who might fit their criteria and needs the best. So we like to input our recommendations to clients on the best consultants to execute their project to the highest level.

If the process were simple we would not have the desire and need for the services that we currently command. However, it's not as though these processes are unnecessary there is a lot of very important oversight and review that goes into the permitting of a new project that goes into the zoning at the basic states but then it goes into the important details like the structural planned review to make sure that the building is stable, geotechnical for the ground stability, environmental with water and landscaping and energy that is utilized by the house, and it really just spans into so many different departments where it becomes this long process with many many layers but if you took any of them away there may be a lack of oversight and careful consideration needed to make sure the projects that are built in these cities are at the most well-executed level possibly.

Ideally we come in at the front end so that we can provide our property dev analysis so that when someone is looking to acquire or sell a property, they are either buying it with all knowledge or selling it for the maximum allowed value with the least amount of contingencies so that someone coming in to purchase the property can understand what it is that is being sold. However, we are not always fortunate enough to come in at the front end of a project. So in those cases, we can be brought on during the design phase, where we are working with the design team and co consulting on the allowances and code restrictions together to get the permits, or we are brought in after their project is submitted and people realize they've missed important and critical items that could have been solved earlier and we come in to solve those problems.

We are focused on land use and entitlements and pride ourselves as being the preeminent experts in the municipal codes spanning from Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and Malibu. We also have current projects standing outside to the LA basin, South towards Newport Beach and Orange County, North to Calabasas Ruth Santa Barbara, and are even doing some projects now with existing clients In the city of Austin, Texas. When working in the permitting industry, it's essential to have a deep knowledge of geography. This knowledge can prove useful in several different ways. For instance, every city and county can have its own set of building codes and regulations that your property will need to adhere to. Once you've identified where your property is going to be built, having knowledge of Southern California geography can facilitate a speedier permitting process.

I think it's really important to make a site visit one of the first actions to be taken when a new project comes into our office. The reason for that is there are so many small nuances and differences between properties even though you think you may understand typography or the site context. There's always something you're going to learn about the unique characteristics of the site by physically walking on the property And analyzing it completely.

What we do with our coined PDA, standing for property, development, and analysis, is come up with the full game plan and strategy for your design team and you as a client looking at the abilities for a property with its future development potential

I think you're always going to see increased construction trends in the most desirable neighborhood because that is the most limited amount of real estate with the most amount of desire. It's a simple supply and demand algorithm for determining where the most construction is going to be.