Homeowners and owner-builders pulling a permit
Free checklist of the drawings your town wants for a deck, basement or garage conversion permit, and whether your state needs an architect's stamp.
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What you get
The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the ADU permit door.
Modeled on: 2024 IRC Section R106 Construction Documents
From public data
plus a basement: California lets anyone prepare plans for a wood-frame house up to this height without an architect's license
Source: California Business and Professions Code 5537(a)
Check your lot against California ADU law: size, setbacks, fees and the 60-day review clock. Get the permit narrative and checklist; bring your drawings.
Questions
Usually not for a wood-frame home of up to two stories plus a basement, or its garage. But if any part departs from conventional wood-frame requirements, the building official must require that part to be drawn and stamped by a licensed architect or registered engineer.
Under the model residential code, enough to show the location, nature and extent of the work and that it meets the code, plus a site plan with the new and existing structures and their distances from lot lines. The building official can waive drawings when review isn't needed.
Not from an architect for most homes. Washington's architect law lets any person do design work, including construction documents, for a residential building of up to four dwelling units, a farm building, or a garage, barn or shed that serves one.
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Can you build an ADU here?
What address do you want to check?
Where is the venue?
What's the address of your property?
Where is the farm?
What is the project, and where?
Answer it and ePlan opens the ADU permit door, which drafts the paperwork.