• Site Plans (Plot Plan)
• House Stakes
• Setback Certifications
• Grade Certifications
• Improvement Location Certificates

Site Plans (Plot Plan)

A Site Plan is created by first drawing up the house using foundation plans and placing the house on the lot holding local setback constraints.

The Site Plan will have distance ties to the property line, house wall line distances, porches/patios, driveways, overhangs, and delineation between house and garage.

Type of house along with spot elevations along the house, swales (if any), and property lines are also included.

House Stakes

Once the site plan is developed and approved, a House Stake is accomplished by setting rebar for wall line offsets and stakes for house, garage, and porch corners.

All property pins are found or set on the lot the house will be built on and a benchmark is set at the highest top back of walk/curb with a cut or fill to the top of foundation of the proposed house.

Setback Certifications

A Setback Certification is completed to verify that the foundation of the house is within local setback standards. A plan is given with foundation wall dimensions, dimensions to the property lines, and setback lines shown.

Grade Certifications

A Grade Certification is surveyed after the house is built and final grading of the lot is completed. The finished floor of the main level and the top of foundation are shot for elevation as well as the property lines and swales to show water drainage away from the house and off the lot as designed in the overall grading plan of the subdivision or lot.

Improvement Location Certificates

An Improvement Location Certificate (ILC) is prepared solely for the mortgage lender and the title insurance company. It is not a Land Survey Plat in accordance with Colorado Revised Standards 38-51-102 (12) or an Improvement Survey Plat in accordance with Colorado Revised Standards 38-51-102 (9).

It does not establish property corners. An Improvement Survey or a Land Survey can only determine the true representation of improvements to the boundary lines.

A map is produced that shows where the improvements are generally situated on or around the lot and only apparent improvements and encroachments are noted on the map.