The permit set checklist

General — G

• Cover sheet and sheet index G0.00 Project name, address, a location map, and an index listing every sheet with its number and title. The intake clerk uses it to confirm the set is whole before anyone reads a drawing.
• Code data and project information G1.00 Occupancy and construction type, number of storeys, floor areas, and the code edition the project is reviewed under. The plans examiner reads it first, because it tells them which rules to apply. It records what you determined; it is not a check that something determined it for you.
• General notes, symbols and abbreviations G2.00 The legend for the whole set: what the symbols mean and which instructions apply everywhere rather than in one place.

Site and civil — C

• Site plan C1.00 · 1" = 10'-0" The lot from above with the building on it: property lines, setback lines, the footprint, the driveway, and the distances between them. The zoning reviewer usually reads this before anything else — whether you are allowed to build the thing at all is mostly decided here.
• Grading and drainage C2.00 Required when your scope moves earth or changes where water goes. Ask whether yours does.
• Utilities and erosion control C3.00 Where the department requires it. Frequently tied to the grading sheet.

Architectural — A

• A floor plan for every floor A1.01 · A1.02 · 1/4" = 1'-0" A horizontal cut a few feet above the floor, looking down. Cut walls read as the thick lines they are, doors and windows appear as tagged gaps, rooms are named, and dimensions run along and across the plan. This is the sheet everyone reads and where most review comments land.
• For a remodel: an existing / demolition plan beside the proposed plan The reviewer has to see what is there now and what changes. Many departments want these as two separate drawings. Note that TraceBIM does not produce that split today — it draws existing, demolition and new on one plan, each in its own line type — so if your department requires separate sheets you will need another route for this row.
• Roof plan A1.03 · 1/8" = 1'-0" The roof shape, the slopes, and where water goes.
• Exterior elevations, all four sides A2.01 · A2.02 · 1/4" = 1'-0" The building seen flat-on from each side, with no perspective: heights, roof line, the grade it sits on, and where every opening lands on the face. The zoning reviewer reads them for height limits.
• Building sections A3.01 · 1/4" = 1'-0" A vertical cut through the whole house: how the floors stack, how tall the ceilings are, how the roof meets the walls.
• Wall sections A3.02 · 1" = 1'-0" One wall cut at much larger scale, showing every layer from the footing to the roof.
• Enlarged plans for kitchens and bathrooms A4.01 · 1/2" = 1'-0" Crowded areas drawn at twice the size of the main plans, because at 1/4" they turn to mush.
• Interior elevations A5.01 The same idea turned inward: one wall of a room seen flat-on, for kitchens and baths where cabinets and fixtures have to be drawn.
• Door and window schedule A6.01 A table, not a drawing. Every door and window with its size, type and hardware, keyed to the tags on the plan.
• Egress and light: opening sizes and sill heights, on the plan and in the schedule The plans examiner checks window sizes and how far openings sit above the floor against the egress and natural-light requirements that apply to sleeping rooms and basements. Make the numbers findable in both places. The requirement itself is local — confirm it with the department.
• Room finish and fixture schedule A6.02 What each room is floored, walled and ceilinged with, and the fixtures in it.
• Details A7.01 · A7.02 One connection blown up large: foundation to wall, window to the wall around it, roof to the edge. These say what happens at the joints, which is where buildings leak.

Engineering and landscape — S / M / E / P / L

• Structural: foundation, floor framing, roof framing, design criteria S1.00–S4.01 Drawing the sheet is not designing what is on it. TraceBIM does no structural analysis and no load calculations. Whether your jurisdiction requires a licensed engineer to prepare these for your scope is a local question you have to ask.
• Mechanical, electrical and plumbing M1.00 · E1.00–E3.00 · P1.00–P2.00 Equipment, circuits, fixtures, and how pipes and ducts run. TraceBIM drafts these sheets; it does no MEP coordination and no sizing.
• Landscape L1.00 · L2.00 Planting, hardscape and irrigation. Required far less often than the rest — check the department’s list.

• Read the whole set on paper, cold At full size, start to finish, in one sitting. Faults that are invisible at screen zoom are obvious on a printed sheet.
• Match the portal’s file format and naming rules One combined PDF or one file per sheet, the naming convention, the page size. Departments reject uploads on this alone.
• If you exported from TraceBIM: decide about the DRAFT stamp Every export carries “DRAFT — NOT FOR CONSTRUCTION — Requires licensed design-professional review and stamp” diagonally across the sheet, unless you issue the set through Issue for Permit.
• If you issue for permit: you are the one making the statement You pick a role — property owner preparing plans for your own property, licensed contractor preparing plans for a client, or licensed design professional issuing under your own authority — name the jurisdiction and the property address, and confirm three things: that the department accepts plans prepared by someone in your role for this scope without a stamp, that you understand the output may contain errors and you are solely responsible for accuracy, completeness and code compliance, and that you have personally reviewed every sheet as it will be exported.
• Keep an exact copy of what you submitted When comments come back weeks later they reference the set as submitted, not the file you have kept editing since.