Sample Plans

Producing clear and accurate plans, which have all the information necessary without a lot of extraneous detail, is the key to success in moving through the planning process efficiently. The Marin County Planning Division’s “Planning Application Submittal Checklist” describes in detail the information that architects, landscape architects, and civil engineers need to prepare before they submit an application for review. The sample plans supplement the checklist by providing examples of complete sets of plans. Two sets of sample plans are provided as examples for designers. The first plan set exhibits a typical Tentative Map application, intended to subdivide a lot that is already developed with a home into two lots to create a new building site. The second plan set exhibits a Design Review application for the new home on the vacant lot created by the subdivision.

Before preparing plans to submit for a planning application, please review these plan sets to better understand how to best represent the proposed design.

This plan set shows a Tentative Map for a lot split. Information including existing conditions, new property lines, a proposed building envelope, and the future location of the driveway and utilities are clearly shown. In addition, environmental constraints such as mature trees and a stream conservation area are mapped. The Tentative Map creates the lot where the new house shown in the Design Review plan set will be built.

This worksheet provides a template for project data required to be included on site plans in conformance with the Planning Application Submittal Checklist. The project data provided must be based on applicable definitions in the Marin County Code.

This plan set shows the information typically necessary to apply for a Design Review to build a new residence on a vacant lot. Several elements of this plan set are important to note, such as clearly showing the stream conservation area and overlaying the roof plan with the elevations labeled on top of the topographical contours to clearly show the height of the building. Architecture, landscaping, and civil engineering are all shown in this plan set.

This plan set shows the information typically necessary to apply for a Design Review to build additions to a residence. Several elements of this plan set are important to note, such as clearly showing the areas of additions as shaded and the area of demolition as hatched, as well as overlaying the roof plan with the elevations labeled on top of the topographical contours to clearly show the height of the building.