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How to Apply for Your Own Residential Building Permit?

Residential building permit is required by the City or County when a residential building needs to be altered inside or outside of the building, such as interior remodeling, exterior addition or new construction. It is illegal to alter a building without an approved building permit from the City or County agencies. When homeowners try to alter their houses, they may think applying for a residental building permit is a headache and need to hire a professional designer or Architect. After hiring a professional desiger or Architect, some homeowners have the difficulty to deal with the designers or Architects they hire. If a homeowner is clear about the process of applying for a building permit and know what's required in order to acquire a building permit, then the homeowner could have less headache to communicate with the designers or Architects they hire. Furthermore, for a simple project, homeowners could apply for a single-family residential building permit by themselves without hiring a professioal designer or Architect. This web site provides the knowledge of the process how a single-family building permit could be acquired and what drawings or documents are required in order to acquire a single-family residential building permit.

Applying for a single-family residential building permit requires submitting drawings or plans to the city or county for their approval. The drawings or plans could be prepared by a professional designer or by yourself. For a small project such as interior remodeling, the drawings or plans could be drawn by hand on a piece of paper. For a complicated projects such as exterior addition, you may need to draw the plans on a computer through a software. The most famous software in today's market is AutoCAD. Other than AutoCAD software, you can find other softwares providing similar drawing functions.

The required plans and documentations for an interior remodeling project is much less than an exterior addition project. The requirements for an interior remodeling project and an exterior addition project are provided separately in this web site.

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