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Navigating the Approval Process: A Guide for Building Construction Companies

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Oseias Rodrigues
Navigating the Approval Process: A Guide for Building Construction Companies

When planning to build your dream home or a renovation or addition to your home, it’s easy to indulge your imagination and creativity. The possibilities seem endless and exciting as you evaluate and select architects, contractors, and styles of windows or decks. In reality, to ensure the best outcome, you need your feet to stay grounded. You can't do what you want with it if you have ownership of land. Further, everyone may not have been as careful as they should have been before, and so the presence of an existing structure whose laws can change over time on a lot of things doesn’t mean it’s there legally.

However, property records are available to anyone. You need to keep this in mind before building. You’ll want to get the parcel map, the assessor’s parcel number, or your APN, and make sure your parcel is an approved building site. To find out where to go in your area for records, you can search online. These are held at the county courthouse, city hall, the county recorder’s office, or another city or county department, such as the tax assessor’s office. 

What type of building is permitted on the land is also important, as zoning laws cover how land can be used and zoning information is available to the public. Referring to your lot, to make sure there are no restrictions or regulations, talk to your local zoning office, city hall, or other local planning board about obtaining the zoning information that would prevent you from building in your desired spot and, before you build, obtaining their permission.

Ozzy Construction drawings of the measurements, the structure, floor plans, the material that will comprise the exterior, and an elevation view? To help you understand the permitting and approval process, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, offers a great checklist.

Ozzy Construction is a building construction company that has been building extraordinary structures for a few years. 

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