Planning and Development Department

Plan Submittals are your electronic submissions of plans and related documents for an eBuild project. During all stages of your eBuild project, plans are submitted, reviewed, marked up, approved and returned to you electronically. Any material submitted on paper will be scanned to PDF format and added to the project electronically.

Note: Under the law, the documents you submit to the City are a matter of public record.

Multiple File Selection Tip

Your web browser supports selecting multiple files for a single upload. How you select more than one file depends on your operating system.

Holding down the Ctrl key (the Command key on a Mac) while clicking on each file usually works. To select multiple files that are continguous in a listing, you can usually select the first file, then hold down the Shift key and select the last file.

Submittal Guidelines

Working with electronic files instead of sheets of paper presents some interesting challenges. Please review and observe these guidelines when preparing your plans for electronic submittal:

• All plans and supporting documentation must be submitted in PDF format.
• If the PDF is of a scanned document, the resolution must be at least 200 DPI (dots per inch).
• Drawings must be uploaded as individual files, one sheet per file.
• Specification manuals, calculations, and other supporting documentation should be submitted as separate PDFs, one document per file.
• Security settings must not be set to restrict modification of files. Locked files (often marked SECURED by PDF software) cannot be processed by the system, marked up by staff or stamped when approved. However, the approved copies of files returned to you are locked by eBuild to prevent modification.
  

  We always retain copies of your original documents without any alteration, exactly as you submitted them to us. We only alter working copies created from the originals to electronically add notes, comments and stamps.

• The total size of files uploaded at one time cannot be more than 200 MB.
• You can make multiple submittals if the files you need to upload exceed this limit.
• File names must start with a letter, number or underscore and cannot contain any characters other than letters, numbers, dash, space, underscore and period:

                  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
  
  
                  ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
  
  
                  0123456789
  
  
                  - _.
  	

• File names cannot have a space or period immediately before the .pdf extension.
• File names cannot be more that 255 characters long.
• Changes to details within a drawing sheet require that a new revised drawing sheet be submitted as Supplemental Information.
• Using appropriate file names is particularly important for electronic submittals. Please review eBuild Help: Naming Files.

Types of Plan Submittals

Selecting the right submittal type will help the system process your submittal correctly. Be sure to select a reponse submittal type whenever you're submitting material in response to a Review Comments notice from the City.

We will only offer submittal types which apply to your project at the stage it's currently in.