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Building & Zoning - Requirements for Obtaining Building Permits
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Building & Zoning - Requirements for Obtaining Building Permits
No. All plats to be reviewed and signed off on by the Building Official must be submitted to the Greene County Building and Zoning Department to scale and in a hard copy format.
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Building & Zoning - Requirements for Obtaining Building Permits
Sets Required for Residential & Commercial
- Residential Plan Reviews:
- Construction Drawings - One Hard Copy and One PDF
- Land Disturbance Documents - One Hard Copy and One PDF
- Commercial Plan Reviews
- Construction Drawings - Two Hard Copies and One PDF
- Land Disturbance Documents - Two Hard Copies and One PDF
Other Categories Requiring a Drawing
Applications for construction in the following categories must be accompanied with a drawing showing the seal of a registered professional engineer or architect licensed in the state of Georgia.
- All Group A, E, and I occupancies:
- Assembly
- Educational
- Institutional
- Building and structures three stories or more high.
- Building and structure 5,000 square feet or more in area
- Residential Plan Reviews:
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Building & Zoning - Requirements for Obtaining Building Permits
Greene County has a Memorandum of Agreement with the Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission and the Georgia Environmental Protection Division. Land disturbance and residential construction plan reviews are performed in house by Greene County. Commercial plan reviews that do not require Georgia State Fire Marshalls Office approval are conducted in house.