[Python] How do I build a web service that returns a image of a map with a feature drawn on it...

I'm trying to build a web service that I can call using a GET request and a propertyID parameter passed in, this will search for the property then draw and return an image of the feature (property boundary) on aerial an photography map, the image will be zoomed to this this property, returned image can be jpg png etc..

I have access to the different arcgis feature services to provide the data to build this image but am struggling to put it together, running into threading or WPF issues as the Esri provided.net library's which are very extensive but seem to be aimed more at building apps to draw maps in a UI. I have read that building a geo processing tool would be one way to attack this problem but am not sure where to start or if this is over kill.

Is it possible build this using arcgis .net or python library's or is there a simpler way?

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