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Strategic permitting and pre-emptive conflict resolution

Building & Development Permits

We handle the whole permit application, from zoning strategy to the last email with the City.

Tell us what you’re building

We reply within one business day, sooner if you’ve been refused.

Project reviews and layout drawings are compiled using the best physical evidence available on-site and from official registry baselines. Formal legal boundary staking remains subject to a certified Real Property Report (RPR) executed by a licensed Saskatchewan Land Surveyor.

  • Licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.)
  • Years of Development Appeals Board experience
  • Based in Saskatoon, serving Saskatchewan and Alberta
  • Fixed scope, no retainer

Sound familiar?

  • Building a heated shop or garage.

    In-floor heat means NBC 9.36 applies. We settle the slab, wall and roof assemblies before you order materials.

  • A cabin addition or a lakefront build.

    Development, building and health authority sanitary approvals, filed together instead of one at a time.

  • A steel building on a lot the bylaw treats as commercial.

    Some builds need a different zoning approach, like reclassifying a pre-engineered structure for residential use. We work out the path first.

Just been refused. A refusal starts a 30-day appeal window. Send us the letter today and we’ll respond the same business day.

Stalled Permits & Appeals

Permits stall on small things

A concrete pad that comes in under the 700 square foot zoning minimum. A wall assembly that doesn’t clear NBC 9.36. A sanitary approval that had to be in before the building permit, filed after. A pre-engineered steel building on a lot the bylaw treats as commercial.

Each of these turns into weeks. Some turn into a redesign, and a redesign at the manufacturer costs real money on drawings you already paid for. The quieter cost is that every time an application goes back for more information, the file stays open, and an open file collects new requests.

We look for all of it before the file goes in.

Permit application coming up?

Let’s find the problems first.

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How we can help

A permit application is where your drawings meet a reviewer with a stack of codes to check them against. Most of the delay in that process isn’t the reviewer being difficult. It’s the file arriving incomplete, or arriving in pieces that each get reviewed separately.

We run the whole workflow. Zoning strategy at the front, then a pass through your plans against the bylaw and the building code to find what a reviewer will flag. Where a wall or roof assembly won’t clear the energy code, we work out one that will before you order materials. Then we package the development permit, the building permit, and the Saskatchewan Health Authority sanitary approval together, instead of filing them one at a time and waiting between each.

We deal with the municipality directly as your agent of record, or we work alongside your structural engineer and suppliers if you’d rather keep those relationships. Either way, one person is tracking every open item.

The scope is fixed and the price is fixed. You get the permit and we’re done. There’s no retainer.

What we handle

The whole application, start to finish

From working out what the zoning allows to the final piece of correspondence with the municipality.

  • Find the path that works

    Zoning strategy

    Some builds clear the bylaw as drawn. Others need a different approach, like reclassifying a steel structure from commercial to residential use.

  • Comply without a redesign

    Code and materials

    If the building has to meet NBC 9.36, we settle the assemblies that get you there, such as Celfort 200 rigid foam under the slab and R40 ceiling batts.

  • One person on every open item

    Municipal liaison

    We handle the correspondence as your agent of record and coordinate with your structural engineer and suppliers, so nothing sits in an inbox.

The process

How it goes, step by step

Five steps, in the order they happen. The engagement ends when the permit is issued.

  1. Plans against the rules

    Gap audit

    Your drawings and site layout reviewed against zoning setbacks, health authority rules, and the National Building Code before anything is filed.

  2. Catch conflicts early

    Clash detection

    Regulatory and structural conflicts resolved on paper. Resizing a pad to meet a zoning minimum now costs nothing; a manufacturer redesign later doesn’t.

  3. Assemblies that comply

    Materials

    When the energy code drives the spec, we work out wall, roof and slab assemblies that meet it without stalling your build or your budget.

  4. File it together

    Consolidation

    Development, building, and health authority sanitary applications packaged as one submission instead of a sequence you wait through.

  5. Complete on arrival

    Submission

    The package goes in with assumptions stated and compliance shown. Where a code calls for it, we build in the extra margin, such as a ULC one-hour fire-rated wall, so there’s nothing left to question.

What to send us

  • Your drawings, or the building package from your supplier
  • The property address, or the legal land description if you have it
  • Any letters or emails from the municipality
  • The refusal notice (Form B), if you’ve received one

If you already have a site plan, send it. If you don’t, that’s usually where we start.

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We reply within one business day, sooner if you’ve been refused.

What comes back

The approvals, and the file that earned them.

  • Development and building permits: approved, with the sanitary approval filed alongside them

  • The submission package: the drawings, forms and assumptions the approval was based on, kept for the day the question comes up again

  • A materials package that complies: the assemblies that clear NBC 9.36, using materials you can actually source

Fixed scope, fixed price. The engagement ends when the permit is issued.

Sample layout

Fixed scope, no retainer

One application. One price. Done when the permit is issued.

The scope and the price are set before we file anything, and the engagement ends when the permit is in your hands. There’s no retainer and no monthly billing. If you want a playbook for what comes after, that’s a separate conversation.

FAQ

Questions we get about this

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Both, and most of what sits between. We draft the site plan and drainage set, work out a materials package that meets the building code, coordinate structural engineering such as raft slab designs, assemble the application forms, and act as your agent of record with the municipality and the province.

The complicated ones. Heated garages and shops with in-floor hydronic heat that have to meet NBC 9.36. Cottage additions with breezeway connections. Setback variance appeals under Section 219 of The Planning and Development Act, 2007. Lakefront builds needing Saskatchewan Health Authority sanitary approval. Pre-engineered steel structures that needed a commercial-to-residential zoning pivot.

The building permit application, Form A, asks for one number to calculate the permit fee, so that’s what we provide: a single consolidated construction value that satisfies the bylaw. You keep your itemized supplier quotes for your own budgeting. There’s no need to file them.

Approved development and building permits, the sanitary approval, and the submission package behind them. That package records the assumptions the approval was based on, which is what you point to if the question ever comes up again.

No. The scope and price are fixed, and the engagement ends when the permit is issued.

Next step

Fixed scope, fixed price, defined end

Get the permit sorted

Tell us where the project is and we’ll tell you what the application needs. When the permit is issued, the engagement is done.

Request an Inspection

We reply within one business day, sooner if you’ve been refused.

Fixed price. Done when the permit is issued.

Request an Inspection