Backyard studio on a 5,500 sq ft demo lot — aerial
Sheds & backyard studios · SHED 02
Backyard studio
Nobody sleeps in it, but power runs to it — which is what triggers the permit.
Site data
- Lot
- 5,500 sq ft
- Existing footprint
- 1,099 sq ft
- This proposal
- 192 sq ft
- Building coverage
- 23.5%
- Front / side / rear
- 79.0′ / 21.5′ / 5.0′
- Scale
- 1″ = 20′
measured off the compiled model · no engine diagnostics · sizes are placeholders until this is drawn on your lot
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5 sheets, from one model
These are not separate drawings kept in step by hand. They are projections of the same model, so a change to the model changes all of them at once.
Sheet A-001 — Site plan
Why this passes — and what sends one back
- Setbacks measured to the new edge, not to the house — 21.5′ to the nearer side line here.
- The scale is written down (1″ = 20′), not left to be inferred from the page size.
- North arrow on the sheet.
- Existing dashed, proposed solid. This is the first thing read at the counter, and getting it backwards is a refusal on its own.
- The coverage arithmetic is shown, not just its result — 1,099 sq ft existing + 192 sq ft proposed over 5,500 sq ft of lot.
What sends this one back
The exemption that isn’t
Under the no-permit size, setbacks and easements still apply. The classic refusal is a perfectly legal shed standing on a drainage easement — exempt from the permit, not from the line it sits on.
What the sky can’t see — you add these
- Recorded easements — they run along rear and side lines, exactly where sheds go
- Whether power will run to it, which usually ends the exemption
- On unsewered lots: the leach field a slab must not sit on
provide them and they go on the sheet · invented lines never do
Same lot, 2 ways
Every shed in this category is drawn on the identical lot, so the coverage numbers on the cards can be read against each other.
What this is not
This page is a demonstration our engine drew — not a permit that was submitted and not a drawing that was approved. Structural calculations and Title 24 energy compliance have to be signed by a licensed engineer or a certified analyst: we hand those off and we do not stamp them. Decks and small wood structures mostly fall inside the prescriptive tables and need no stamp at all, which is why they are the cleanest category here.
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