Ratio.City

Ratio.City

Ratio.City is an easy-to-use, web-based platform for urban planning and development. It streamlines access to planning and policy data, improving team efficiency in the early planning stages, supporting informed decisions, and accelerates housing and growth.

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How can Ratio.City help you?

  • Municipal Planning Teams

    Streamline development application reviews and identify city-owned land for re-development. Access the data and analysis tools to prepare for pre-application consultations, community presentations, and general review of planning applications. 

    Why use GIS Tools

  • Private Developers

    Identify underutilized sites or maximize the development potential of sites you already have. Access planning policies and tools to conduct initial feasibility studies saving time, money, and reducing risk.

    Unlocking Development Potential

  • Urban and Regional Land Use Planners

    Focus on solving planning problems instead of spending time sourcing the data you need. Ratio.City puts planning and policy data at your fingertips and makes it easy for you to find what is relevant.

    Case Study: CAPREIT

  • Asset Managers

    Visualize your portfolio in context. The interactive map allows users to explore policy and data surrounding their site and share customizable reports with team members, partners, and investors.

    Case Study: CreateTO

  • Architects and Engineers

    Understand project feasibility with tools that allow you to visualize a massing in relation to policy data. Quickly generate initial feasibility and shadow studies, collaborate with team members, and export files for refinement in other 3D modelling software.

    Driving Housing Solutions

  • Acquisition Teams and more

    Leverage Ratio.City as a business development tool to scope out project feasibility, visualize your geospatial data on interactive maps, and share customizable reports with team members, partners, and investors.

    Case Study: Collecdev
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Essential Tools

For the early stages of Urban Development

Explore

  • Explore layers of aggregated data and policy information at municipal, provincial, and federal levels.
  • Visualize the data in context, alternating between 2D and 3D map views, with satellite, map, or terrain modes.
  • Customize and download PDF reports with key property information, policies, public assets in proximity, and surrounding development activity to easily share with your teams, clients or stakeholders.

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Locate

  • Locate sites or precedents through a powerful search engine that filters through parcels, policies, development activity, and public assets to find what you are looking for (i.e. Under-utilized sites or precedents to reference).  
  • Discover opportunities for redevelopment of city-owned sites. 
  • Export a CSV of your search results that match your search criteria. 
  • Upload your own data and run searches across your portfolio and Ratio.City’s data sets.  
  • Save and reload your search parameters.

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Develop

  • Develop any site by selecting parcels or drawing a custom site. Apply setbacks, stepbacks, height, angular planes, and constraint inputs to shape your massing.
  • Determine development potential with 3D models. Customize and download PDF reports gaining insight and stats into development potential.
  • Visualize shadows to understand development impact.
  • Create multiple scenarios for a site to evaluate density concepts and determine best use.

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Stories

  • Summarize and present data layers and development information.
  • Add sites, massings, annotations, and more to your story.
  • Host presentations where other users can comment, annotate, and interact live.

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Projects

  • Organize and manage your project related files in one location. 
  • Invite other team members (from within or outside your organization) to a project to easily share information and stay up to date with the most current versions of files.
  • Assign permissions to team members to ensure appropriate information is being shared. 
  • Save time in coordination and sending emails back and forth with our collaboration tools that allow a variety of users to have eyes on sites, massings, and stories. 

Teams

Invite others from within or outside of your organization to join your project 

  • Manage control over who sees what with the ability to assign different permissions to invited team members.
  • Teams sets a foundation for collaborative working. With one editor making changes at a time, other team members can watch as massings or stories change in real time
  • Track changes made to documents and revert to earlier versions if needed
  • Refer to the Activity log or Notifications hub to stay updated on what others are doing in the project 

Benefits of Key Features

  • Save Time and Improve Efficiency

    Ratio.City provides a wide range of municipal, provincial, and federal data for a variety of cities across Canada. Our growing data catalogue allows users to explore geospatial data in context, spending less time sourcing information.

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  • Securely Integrate Proprietary Data

    With the opportunity to securely host a proprietary dataset, Ratio.City is a great tool for asset management. With this information uploaded, users can reference private data layers against the existing information available on the platform.

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  • Streamline Collaboration

    Ratio.City offers tools that support team collaboration. The ability to share files with colleagues in different organizations, assign permissions, and receive notifications for updates happening within your project, makes project organization and management easier.

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Accelerating housing approvals

The Vision behind Ratio.City

Monika Jaroszonek and Erin Morrow, co-founders of Ratio.City, tackled challenges in Canada's housing industry, including fragmented data and limited tools. They created Ratio.City to aggregate planning policies and zoning data from 50 municipalities, covering 80% of the population. This platform streamlines housing site identification, evaluation, and approval navigation for developers and planners, aiming to expedite housing delivery and enhance collaboration.

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