Explore the intricacies involved in creating a detailed site plan, complete with property boundaries, dimensions, and additional elements such as fuel modification areas. Understand the level of precision that CAD software provides to architects and designers.
Key Insights
- The article illustrates the application of CAD software in mapping out a property, demonstrating an entrance road leading to a house and indicating the dimensions of the plot. It emphasizes the level of precision CAD offers compared to traditional field measurements.
- Within the site plan, additional elements such as fuel modification areas are also included, demonstrating the exhaustive nature of the planning process. This is especially important for compliance with local regulations and fire safety requirements.
- The site plan also comprises the project details such as the project number, creator and verifier's names, review dates, and a detailed sheet index. This level of meticulous documentation ensures comprehensive project understanding and effective communication.
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You can see that I have the house that is shaded in gray. There is an existing entrance road that goes from the road. So here is the road down here.
I have an entrance road that goes up to the house. I have marked it as an existing dirt road. And I get to the house and there it is.
You can see that I am showing some dimensions right here that show the distance from the corner of the house to the property line. So, from this upper left corner of the house, perpendicular, which means at an angle of 90 degrees to the property line, are 53 feet 11.5 inches. Now again, this is CAD, and in reality, it could be 54 feet.
But CAD can be much more precise than what we can normally do out there in the field. But I'm showing that the house is about 54 feet from this property line here. And it is 132 feet from this property line here.
And the important thing is that the county understands that the house is definitely located within the appropriate retrocess areas. So I have the house, I have the distance from the property line. This is information that is normally included in the site plan.
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And for this project, I am also showing fuel modification areas. You may remember, but when we were talking about the fire requirements in the previous videos, the fire notes included the comments that we had to maintain the density of the dead vegetation within an area of fuel modification around the house. So, what we are showing here is that the fuel modification area, which is required to be 100 feet outside the house.
We are showing where the fuel modification area is in the site plan. So, again, we have the house, we have the distance from the property line, we are showing the fuel modification area. So, here we are with our sheet TS 1.0. This is our title sheet, we have the name of the title sheet at the bottom.
We have a description of what the sheet is. Normally we would have the name of the project and the name of the owner here, the architectural stamps here. I have my project number, who drew the project, who verified the project and also the date review.
As we enter the project, we will cover more about the review dates. I have the sheet index, again this is required to be on the cover sheet or on the title sheet. The same names for almost the same.
I have my sheet index listing all the sheets that are included within the set. I have my development summary, again, I am typically talking with the planning and the planning department and use of the soil at this point in the process. Where I am saying, here is the project, here is the plot number of the landowner.
Here is the neighborhood in which it is located, here is the zoning for the neighborhood. Here is the size of the project, and then I have my scope of work, and the team that is involved in the project. I have fire notes and general notes.
Again, these notes usually come to you from your appropriate regulatory agency. I have a map of the neighborhood. You see that next to the neighborhood it says, NTS.
This simply means that it is not on scale. So what we have done is go online, we have captured an image of the neighborhood and we present it up here, and we have our site plan down here. I also have some notes up here called key notes and you can see that I have a key note 1 that says proposal for a two-story house with a basement.
Key note 2. Existing location of the exhibition site. If I look at the drawing itself, you will see that I have my key notes for an existing house. And the exhibition site is here.
And again, we will see more details about that in a couple of minutes. So again, here is sheet title number 1. I would like you to take some time to review it, and then we will move on to the next page.
