Site layout and documentation built from survey data you provide — accurate, scaled, and ready for your township to review.
A site plan shows how your home or project sits on your lot — building placement, driveway layout, and the other site-specific details your township needs to see before issuing a permit. We're not a licensed surveying firm, so we don't establish or certify property boundaries ourselves. We produce residential site plans for new construction, home additions, accessory structures, pole barns, garages, ADUs, cabins, and other permitted projects across Traverse City, Grand Traverse County, Leelanau County, Antrim County, Benzie County, and surrounding Northern Michigan townships. If your building department or township requires a plot plan, proposed site plan, or building placement drawing as part of a permit application, we can produce it from your survey data. What we do is take the survey data you already have — a recorded boundary survey, or in some cases LiDAR or satellite elevation data when that's sufficient for the project — and build the site layout and drawings on top of it.
If you don't have a survey yet, that's the first step before we can put together an accurate site plan. We can talk through what you'll need at consultation.
What's needed varies by township and project type. Depending on your project and the data available, this can include:
We do not perform land surveying or establish or certify legal property boundaries, and we don't produce stamped civil engineering documents (drainage calculations, stormwater design, septic system design). Where a project needs any of that, it's outside our scope. Finished grade design is offered only for new home construction where elevation survey data already exists; without that data, we can't generate an accurate grading plan.