North & Draft Design Co. · Residential + Commercial · South Bay CA
Design development, permit sets and structural coordination, for houses and workplaces. Scroll: the set draws itself.
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Sheet G-1 · General notes
Everything below is produced in one studio, on one drafting standard, under one principal. Notes apply to all sheets.
From the first sketch to a buildable drawing set: plans, elevations, sections, and the hundred decisions in between, drawn with you in the room.
Complete submittal sets for city or county, carried all the way through plan check: corrections answered, resubmittals handled, permit in hand.
Our principal is a California-licensed PE. Beams get sized, shear walls get scheduled, and the S-sheets speak the inspector's language.
Backyard units, garage conversions, additions and interior remodels, drawn to each city's ADU standards and checked against the current code cycle.
Tenant improvements for offices, shops and restaurants: space plans, exiting, accessibility and the landlord's requirements, coordinated in one set.
We measure the building that exists, not the one on the old drawings. Field notes become clean CAD you can trust for the next move.
The fork · Choose your door
Pick the track that sounds like your project. The page re-draws itself.
Most of our residential work starts with a homeowner holding either a dream or a correction notice. Both are welcome. We draw ADUs, additions and remodels the way plan checkers like to read them, and because the structural sheets are ours too, the set moves through the city as one story instead of two.
Tenant improvements run on a clock: rent starts whether the permit is ready or not. Our TI sets are drawn for first-round approval: exiting and occupancy worked out early, accessibility checked line by line, and structural revisions stamped in-house the same week they come up.
Vignettes are illustrative samples drawn for this demo site, not client drawings.
Sheet index · What you actually get
A permit set is a stack of promises to the city. Here is what each one says, in plain terms.
Scope, code summary, occupancy, and the sheet index itself. The plan checker's first stop, so we make it answer their first ten questions.
Setbacks, lot coverage, easements, drainage arrows. Drawn from the survey or from our own site measure, never traced from a listing.
Fully dimensioned, keyed to door and window schedules. Existing and proposed on separate sheets so nothing gets argued in the field.
Building heights, materials, glazing callouts. The sheet the planner and the neighbors both look at first.
The cut through the building that proves it works: assemblies, insulation, flashing, guards and stairs, drawn at a scale you can build from.
Title 24 forms matched to the drawings, not stapled on afterward. Mismatches here stall more permits than structure ever does.
Design criteria, load table, materials and special inspections. Prepared in-house under our principal, a California-licensed structural PE.
Footings sized to the soil, holdowns located, anchor bolts scheduled. Calculated for this building, not copied from the last one.
Every member called out, shear wall schedule, drags and straps detailed. Inspectors sign the card faster when the sheet answers the question in front of them.
Most design shops sub out the structure and staple it in. Here the architecture and the engineering come off the same drafting table, under one licensed PE. So when plan check asks a structural question, the answer comes back in days, not weeks, and it matches the rest of the set.
Bring the napkin sketch, the listing photos, or the correction notice. The first meeting is free: we'll tell you what the set needs and exactly what it takes to get stamped.
Start your set (408) 555-0130