Introduction
Whether you need a small piece of land or multiple parcels, acquiring the land you need can be a lengthy and challenging process. Managing numerous stakeholders and strict timelines can be cumbersome when using multiple or disjointed systems to track paperwork, required signatures, or negotiation status. Right of Way management requires extreme attention to detail and a high level of organization. Successful practitioners need the right tools to support them.
Aurigo Masterworks includes a Right of Way product to help cities, counties, states, and public agencies manage the end-to-end parcel acquisition process. Used by infrastructure and public works agencies across the U.S. and Canada, Masterworks’ Right of Way management product will help streamline land acquisition and equip you with data-driven tools to make critical decisions.
Streamline the process of acquiring land
Acquiring land through deeds, easements, and eminent domain is a complex process. With Masterworks’ Right of Way product, cities, counties, states, and public agencies can easily assign appraised value for each parcel of land needed to be acquired for each project.
With a ROW system, your agency can keep track of the multiple offers and counteroffers for each parcel of land and manage negotiations with landowners, with every detail stored within the system to ensure full legal compliance. This provides a full audit trail should any legal issues arise in the future.
Once a deal has been made to acquire land, your team can manage payments to owners and automate the financial tracking with integration to your existing financial and payment systems. Aurigo’s ROW product can manage relocation services using configurable templates, digital approvals and store all necessary signatures.
Everything you need for right of way and land management
A single source of truth
In how many places is your project data currently stored? How many pieces of paper and signatures are in various hands? Homegrown systems may seem to be working, but the information can quickly become outdated and take a lot of time and effort from the IT department to maintain. It can be a significant drain on resources and leave your IT department spread thin. In the long-term, homegrown and disjointed systems are incredibly costly to run.
Using a Right of Way management system, you’ll avoid complicated paper trails by leveraging Aurigo’s configurable templates to create leases and legal documents, and by digitally maintaining approvals and signatures with DocuSign.
You’ll be able to quickly gather information on the number of completed properties, outstanding agreements, and outstanding liabilities. Having the data stored in one place will allow you to quickly analyze the hold, lease, and improvement costs with real-time dashboards and reports. Taking a collaborative approach will help make critical decisions throughout the land acquisition process.
With a single, trusted data source, your team can easily access the information they need. Role-based permissions, workflows between business units, built-in corporate templates, and integration with your current business and financial systems ensure the information you need is readily available in real-time.
Aurigo’s Right of Way product will allow any team in the field to access information remotely through an easy-to-use mobile app. Say goodbye to paper forms for collecting survey and land appraisal data, including tracking details of any features on the land. If a paper copy is required, it can easily be created from the data collected using Masterworks’ mail merge features.
Seamless integration with your GIS system
Multiple systems used by different departments and stakeholders lead to inconsistency and, ultimately, costly errors. Eliminate the sharing of outdated information by integrating your current systems with Aurigo Masterworks Cloud. The system is set up to communicate seamlessly with programs like ESRI ArcGIS, Microsoft SharePoint, SunGard, JD Edwards, Laserfiche, Peoplesoft, Larson, Kronos, Workday, Primavera, AASHTOWARE, and document management systems.
The Right of Way product in Masterworks seamlessly integrates with your ESRI ArcGIS mapping to help your team make better, faster decisions. Right of Way management relies heavily on the use of GIS mapping, and having the data right in your management system will not only increase productivity, but will improve the quality of data available to all stakeholders. Having a holistic view of your land acquisition will minimize potential project risks.
Forecast accurately
The land acquisition process doesn’t always end once a project is complete. Your projects likely include many, if not hundreds, of properties that you need to expropriate, and these properties will have multiple owners and tenants. Using a Right of Way management tool, your team(s) can easily and accurately forecast how much budget you’ll need to pay out settlements even after completing the project.
Excel spreadsheets typically reside in various departments and are isolated from one another. Having data such as how many properties are complete, how many agreements are still outstanding, and how much liability you actually have allows you to forecast settlements in advance. All of this is done in a safe and secure, permission-based environment with Masterworks.
Regulatory compliance stored in one place
Equip yourself with a complete audit trail of every activity and transaction. Surveys and visual mapping of each parcel of land using ESRI ArcGIS can be easily stored, documented, and accessed right in Masterworks through seamless integration. Your project team can then clearly define project boundaries and obtain necessary approvals and guarantees, so a sign-off is never lost.
Masterworks’ ROW product can streamline environmental clearance by automating notifications and integrating with environmental compliance systems. Details of public meetings and hearings are tracked and stored centrally, so your agency will always have a clear and reliable record of your public outreach program.
Do it all with Masterworks
Masterworks’ Right of Way product eliminates paper forms by using online templates to create leases and other legal documents, enables field work with a mobile app, tracks every workflow and approval, and simplifies reporting on FWHA compliance, environmental clearance requirements, compensation payments, and project impact analysis.
