Downgrade geopandas for version compatibility in UO-SDK

[vtnate]

The URBANopt SDK uses both this repo and NREL-disco. DISCO has a dependency on dsspy that has un-versioned dependencies 🙄. Because of that lack of versioning, DSSpy picks up the newest Shapely, >2.0. That breaks DISCO.

To resolve that, in the UO-SDK we will require Shapely v1.8.5.

That breaks UO-DES, this repo, because of incompatible Shapely versions.

To resolve that, I'm downgrading Geopandas to keep Shapely <2.0.

I'm sorry. 😰

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR downgrades the geopandas dependency to address version compatibility issues between UO-DES and NREL-disco within the URBANopt SDK ecosystem. The conflict arises from disco's un-versioned dependencies that pull in newer Shapely versions (>2.0), which break disco functionality.

• Downgraded geopandas from "^1.0.1" to "<1.0" to maintain Shapely <2.0 compatibility
• Added explanatory comments documenting the reasoning for the version constraint

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