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Coordinated AutoCAD master site and drainage plans

Site Plans & Drawings

AutoCAD site plans and drainage drawings, built to pass municipal review the first time.

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 on an acreage.

    A house, a shop or a garage on a rural lot means septic, cistern and drainage all have to fit on one drawing. We map them together.

  • Adding on to a cabin.

    Lake lots leave little room. We draw the addition against the setbacks and health authority clearances before you order a package.

  • Told to get a topographic survey.

    A drainage plan with 3% to 5% slopes drawn on it often answers the question. We draw it before you hire a surveyor.

Refused on a setback. A refusal starts a 30-day appeal window. We draw what the variance appeal needs and respond the same business day.

Stalled Permits & Appeals

A sketch that raises questions costs you months

When a layout arrives at the municipality without dimensions, setbacks, or a drainage answer, the reviewer has to ask. Every question is another round, and every round is a chance for something new to be requested.

The two expensive versions of this are familiar. The first is a topographic survey: if the drawing doesn’t show how water leaves the building, a reviewer may ask for one, and that’s a surveyor’s invoice and several weeks you didn’t plan for. The second is a redesign at the building manufacturer, because the package you ordered doesn’t clear a zoning minimum by a couple of feet.

Both are avoidable on paper.

Have a sketch and a piece of land?

We’ll turn it into something a reviewer can approve.

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How we can help

A site plan is where your idea meets the bylaw. Municipalities won’t accept a hand sketch, and a drawing that looks right but misses a setback or a septic clearance goes straight back to you. We turn your sketches, survey notes and ideas into a coordinated AutoCAD drawing set that reviewers can approve.

The set is two sheets. Sheet A1 is the proposed site plan: property boundaries mapped to the ISC registry, existing and proposed building footprints, setback distances to every property line, utility routing for power, gas, water and septic, driveway access, and a site coverage table showing how much room you have left. Sheet A2 is the grading and drainage plan, with 3% to 5% slopes drawn away from the foundation to show that rainwater stays on your lot.

That second sheet matters more than it sounds. Drawing conservative drainage numbers on the plan is often enough to answer the question, which means you don’t get sent off to hire a surveyor for a full topographic survey.

We draw for new houses, cabin additions, garages and workshops, and for setback variance appeals. A first draft for your review usually takes three to five business days once we have your inputs.

What’s on the drawing

What you get in the two-sheet set

More than lot lines. The set answers the questions reviewers ask most, before they ask them.

  • Boundaries, footprints, setbacks

    Sheet A1: site plan

    Metered boundaries from the ISC registry, every setback dimensioned, utility routing and driveway access, plus a site coverage table.

  • Water stays on your lot

    Sheet A2: grading and drainage

    Slopes of 3% to 5% away from the foundation, drawn on the sheet, showing on-site rainwater retention without a topographic survey.

  • Clear the bylaw, keep the building

    Footprint sizing

    Zoning minimums are easier to meet on paper than in a factory. We size the pad to clear them before your supplier draws anything.

The process

How it goes, step by step

Five steps, in the order they happen. A first review draft usually lands within three to five business days of step one.

  1. Send what you have

    Intake

    The property address or legal description, dimensioned sketches or structural dimensions, and any survey certificate, land title or municipal correspondence.

  2. Sheet A1 drafted

    Layout

    Your dimensions become a metered AutoCAD site plan with boundaries, footprints and setbacks shown the way a reviewer expects to read them.

  3. Utilities and clearances

    Servicing

    Septic tanks, cisterns, gas and power lines, driveways, and every setback clearance mapped directly onto the drawing.

  4. Sheet A2 modelled

    Drainage

    Positive 3% to 5% grades and slope arrows showing how rainwater leaves the building and stays on the property.

  5. Ready to submit

    Issue

    Print-ready PDF and CAD files, marked Rev A for your review, then issued for submission once you’ve confirmed them.

What to send us

  • The property address, or the legal land description if you have it
  • Hand sketches, or the dimensions of the building you’re planning
  • A survey certificate or land title, if you have one
  • Any letters, emails or RFI notes from the municipality

A formal survey helps. A sketch on graph paper is enough to start.

Request an Inspection

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

What comes back

A print-ready drawing set, not a sketch with notes on it.

  • Sheet A1, Proposed Site Plan: boundaries, footprints, setbacks, servicing and a site coverage table

  • Sheet A2, Grading and Drainage Plan: 3% to 5% slopes drawn to show rainwater stays on the lot

  • PDF and CAD files: print-ready, ready to attach to the development, building and sanitary applications

A first review draft, marked Rev A, usually within three to five business days of confirmed inputs.

Sample layout

Fixed scope, no retainer

One drawing set. One price. Yours to file.

The scope is set before we draw and the engagement ends when the issued set is in your hands. If you want us to run the permit application afterward, that’s a separate conversation. There’s no retainer and no monthly billing.

FAQ

Questions we get about this

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Property boundaries mapped to the ISC registry, existing and proposed building footprints, setback distances to every property line, utility routing for power, gas, water and septic, driveway access, and a site coverage table showing how much of the lot you’re using.

We draw both sheets together and seal them as one set. Splitting them tends to cost more later, because the drainage question comes up at review anyway and then has to be answered separately.

Sketches or structural dimensions, the property address or legal land description, and copies of any survey certificate, land title or municipal correspondence you already have.

A first review draft, marked Rev A, usually takes three to five business days once we’ve confirmed your inputs.

Yes. The site plan is what the development permit, building permit and health authority sanitary permit all refer back to. Settling it first is what keeps you from redrawing for each one.

Next step

Everything else refers back to it

Start with the plan

Send us a sketch and the property address. We’ll tell you what the drawing needs and how quickly we can have a draft in your hands.

Request an Inspection

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

Rev A drafts in three to five business days.

Request an Inspection