- PROJECT DECISIONS - HOME SITE ZONE STRUCTURE ZONE EXTERIOR DESIGN ZONE INFRASTRUCTURE ZONE INTERIOR DESIGN ZONE

When you build a new custom home, you will have many decisions to make to ensure the house and property meet your standards.

Here are a few of the decisions you will eventually make about your home site:

• Permit, Survey, and Codes
  • Plot plan
  • Building permits
  • Staking for excavation
    • A preliminary stake for tree clearing and for house placement
    • Second staking for excavation for foundations
  • Construction approval by municipal inspections
  • Erosion prevention
• Tree clearing
  • Per on site meeting and markings
  • Stumps ground out
  • Logs hauled off
  • Chips left on site or hauled off
• City Utilities
  • Sewer connection
    • Gravity sewer
    • Forced main sewer with grinder pump station outside
  • Water tap and connection
  • Street bore
  • Developer-provided sub-surface drain
  • Sump line
  • Electric service provider
  • Gas service provider
• On-site Utilities
  • Well
  • Septic
  • Propane
• Final Site Work / Concrete Flatwork
  • Front Porch & Steps - surface / finish
  • Home walk
  • Public city walk (if applicable)
    • Material requirements (check municipal code, where applicable)
    • Length and width requirements
    • Handicap accessibility
  • Patio and Stoop (if applicable)
    • Material specifications
    • Finish /  color
    • Access to house / garage
• Driveway
  • Concrete
    • White
    • Exposed aggregate / size of aggregate
    • Stamped / styles and colors
  • Asphalt
  • Gravel
  • Road matting needed
• Garage
  • Number of spaces
  • Style of overhead doors
• Landscape
  • Rough grade lot
  • Final grade sod, hydro seed, trees, shrubs and mulch
  • Irrigation
    • Front yard only
    • Front and back yard
    • Special requirements (gardens, greenhouse, etc.)
• Fencing
  • Type
  • Style
  • Color
• Mailbox – municipal or development requirements

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Project Zone Property: Permits, Survey, Codes, Fencing, Tree Clearing, Driveway, Utilities, Foundation, Concrete Flatwork, Basement, Garage, Front Porch, Steps, Landscape, Irrigation, Mailbox