If you are planning a retail building, office, flex warehouse, medical office, restaurant or self-storage project in unincorporated Cherokee County, the land disturbance permit (LDP) is the gate between a zoning approval and a building permit. These are the twenty questions we field most often from owners, brokers and tenants, answered from the county’s own…
Quick answer: The cheapest engineering on a land development project is the engineering you buy before you own the land. Developers who shop for property with their civil and stormwater engineer on retainer screen parcels in days, pay for full feasibility only on finalists, and negotiate contract contingencies around real limits. Developers who order feasibility…
Quick answer: In Metro Atlanta, a civil engineering feasibility report typically costs a few thousand dollars for a small residential lot, $8,000 to $25,000 for a 5 to 20 acre commercial parcel, and $40,000 to $80,000 or more for a large mixed-use due diligence package. A standalone concept site plan is usually priced below a…
Quick answer: Choose a civil engineer who is registered in Georgia and works through a firm with a Georgia Certificate of Authorization, holds GSWCC Level II certification for erosion control plans, has permitted ADU or single-lot grading work in your city or county, designs grading and stormwater in-house, and gives you a written scope and…
Quick answer: An RV park can work on a site only if four things line up: the wastewater can be treated legally and affordably, water and power can be delivered at the right capacity, the layout fits the RVs your market actually brings, and the improvements you build today do not reduce what the land…
Quick answer: Before hiring a commercial land development engineer in Atlanta, developers should verify Georgia PE licensure, confirm a Certificate of Authorization for the firm, ask for jurisdiction-specific project references, review sample plan sets, clarify fixed-fee vs. hourly billing, and ask directly who will stamp the drawings. The wrong hire on a commercial site can cost…
Quick answer: Industrial site development in Metro Atlanta requires M-1 or M-2 zoning (or a rezoning application), a full stormwater management design meeting current Georgia Stormwater Management Manual (GSMM) requirements, a Georgia EPD NPDES Construction General Permit for any disturbance over one acre, and county-specific industrial performance standards covering truck circulation, buffers, and outdoor storage. Typical…
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