PLANNING & PERMITTING

RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION

In today’s development business in California, and Santa Barbara, there is no such thing as just drawing plans, pulling your building permit and starting construction like they do in some of the midwestern and mountain states with wide open spaces and no population. In California everyone wants to look over your shoulder to see what you’ve got planned for your property.. and put in their two cents as to what you should do. So a whole new cottage industry has developed in California that does nothing but work with people to get their projects processed through the Entitlement Bureaucracy to get permission to build. At Burke Design we provide what is called “Planning Services” to deal with the Entitlement Bureaucracy. We do this because getting your entitlement to build runs concurrently with the process of designing you project. As your Planner we represent you before the County to prepare and submit applications, negotiate with government Planners on your behalf, research and apply zoning codes and represent you before the various boards and commissions that have jurisdiction such as the Design Review Board, Planning Commission and other special committees. Providing Design, Planning and Construction services under one roof helps reduce your frustration in getting your project built.

PLANNING & PERMITTING