Site plan guides

A table with a row for every state on ADU law: the statute and its date, who must allow an ADU, size and setback limits, parking and owner occupancy, with values only where verified, each cited.

A table with a row for every state on car wash and gas station regulations: water reclaim and discharge rules, UST agencies, fees and funds, fire code siting, and city stacking and separation rules, with values only where verified, each cited.

Whether a site plan needs an architect: unsealed concept plans at the preliminary stage, the building-size thresholds that bring in an architect, when an engineer seals instead, and where a seal is required early.

Florida pool permit survey rules, department by department: Davie and Miami Beach require a signed and sealed survey, Okaloosa, Orange and Indian River take a site plan in its place, and what the drawing must show.

Glamping and campground regulations by state, one row per state: which agency licenses the site, when a glamping unit stays a camping unit, density, bathhouse ratios, plan review and fees, with values only where verified, each cited.

How much land a hotel needs, by brand prototype: published site sizes for Fairfield, StudioRes, Homewood Suites and Home2 Suites, parking per key, building footprints, and the fire access, yard and open space rules that add acreage.

How a homeowner gets a site plan of a property for a permit: where the checklist lives, what to gather, who may draw the plan, the drawing standards reviewers check, and when a sealed survey is required.

The working sequence for making a developer's site plan: survey, zoning, flood and utility data, the program, the binding code numbers, the layout, the site data table, the pre-application meeting, staff revisions and the engineer of record.

A step-by-step guide to an industrial outdoor storage yard site plan: confirming the district, drawing buffers and screen walls, tying storage height to the wall, laying trailer stalls, choosing surfaces, recording dust and stormwater triggers, and what each review stage looks at.

Multifamily parking reform state by state: California's transit-area bar, Washington's ESSB 5184 cap and exemptions, Florida Live Local's cut, Texas SB 840, state ADU parking bars and the cities that repealed minimums, with sources.

How a preliminary site plan differs from a final one: purpose, level of detail, who prepares and seals each, and the concept, sketch, preliminary and final stage names real counties and cities use, with sources.

How RV parks are approved in unincorporated Texas counties: no zoning, Chapter 232 infrastructure and plat rules, flood damage prevention orders, OSSF and TCEQ wastewater limits, public water thresholds and county fire codes, with county examples.

A table with a row for every state: RV park agency and rule, density cap, minimum site, unit separation, internal roads and plan review, giving a value only where the research verified it, each cited, and marking every other cell not verified.

How many RV sites fit on an acre: state density caps on gross and net acreage, minimum site areas, county and city caps, tract minimums, and what real layouts achieve once roads, utilities and stormwater are drawn, with sources.

What a commercial site plan costs a developer: published review fees by county and city, market evidence from a public contract and lender benchmarks, and what drives the total.

Which site plan a permit needs: the residential permit site plan for a homeowner's deck, pool, shed, addition, fence or driveway, and the preliminary site plan for a developer's site plan review, plat or development order.

How a site plan, a plot plan, a survey and a plat differ, as state codes, survey rules and county checklists define them: who prepares and seals each, what each shows, and the order they come in on a project.

How much land self storage and RV and boat storage need, with the dimensions behind it: recorded sites, minimum lots, height, bay and aisle rules, RV stall and aisle benchmarks, and the buffers, caps and drainage that take the rest of the acre.

What a site plan is and what it shows, taken from real county and city submittal checklists: boundaries and setbacks, buildings, access, parking, landscaping, the site data table, the stages from concept to construction set, and what the engineer of record adds.

Where an unsealed concept or preliminary site plan is accepted and where a seal is required early, by state, jurisdiction and stage, with the board rule, ordinance or agency document behind each row.

Who prepares and who seals a site plan, by stage and by state: architects, engineers, landscape architects, land surveyors and unsealed preliminary plans, with the statute or board rule behind each of 44 states.

ADU site plan requirements compared across city checklists: property lines, setbacks, separation from the house, drainage, access, utilities and survey triggers, as Los Angeles, Pasadena, Phoenix, San Francisco, Redwood City and other cities state them.

The California ADU envelope drawn for a site plan: the 800 sq ft unit, the 4 ft side and rear lines, the front setback override, heights of 16, 18 or 20 ft, conversions, and the local lines Pasadena, San Francisco and Los Angeles add.

Oregon middle housing land division under ORS 92.031: one dwelling per resulting lot, no further division, the expedited procedure and its 63-day clock, the 3-year plat window, and how to order the site plan.

How pre-approved ADU plan programs work under California and Arizona law, what the Los Angeles, Pasadena, Phoenix, Scotts Valley and San Ramon programs require, and the lot-specific site plan that places a chosen plan on your lot.

Who may prepare each layer of an ADU permit set: unsealed site plans in Nashville and Wendell, sealed surveys in Cobb County, Arizona's A.R.S. 32-144 and marking rule, Texas's Occupations Code line, and Los Angeles's structural signature rule.