What Makes a Site Plan Permit Ready? 9 Things Reviewers Look For Before Approval

You submitted the application last month.

The contractor is scheduled. Materials are on order. The concrete was supposed to be poured last week.

Instead, you’re staring at a correction letter. Three pages. Numbered comments. Redlines on drawings you barely understand. A resubmittal window that just pushed your project back five weeks.

This wasn’t a design problem.

It was a documentation gap. One that we see repeatedly across permit submissions from Phoenix to Charlotte.

Here’s what permit reviewers actually flag — not what the code requires in theory, but what gets marked “incomplete” in practice.