Building Permit Application Plot Plan Requirements
Each application for a building permit must be accompanied by a scaled plot plan in the municipality's standard format and to a scale of 1:200 or 1:250. Incomplete applications or non-standard formats will not be accepted.
The plot plan is required to show:
- All items noted in the legend.
- Address and street name.
- Building setbacks to all lot lines.
- Building footprint (including decks).
- Lot coverage.
- Lot dimensions.
- Sight triangles (if applicable on corner lots).
- Building entrances and number of risers to grade.
- Proposed private service connections.
- All public services between the curb and the property line.
- All above ground utilities or "street furniture" adjacent to the lot.
- Driveway clearances to the above ground utilities. The minimum clearance to street furniture is 0.5 m and 1.0 m to fire hydrants.
- Entrances including driveway width and gradient.
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Lot grades as shown on the approved lot grading plan and all proposed building apron elevations (at
each corner of the foundation wall).
- All swales and gradients (including intermediate) and drainage arrows indicating the direction of surface runoff.
- Walkout elevations.
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Building grade elevations. All elevations are to be to geodetic datum
- finished floor elevations.
- underside of footing elevation.
- top of foundation wall elevations.
- finished garage floor elevation (if applicable).
- elevation of existing lot services (storm & sanitary) where available.
- Municipal and /or private easements within the property and any adjacent roofline projection.
- Municipal or private culverts and ditches.
- Retaining walls.
