From construction drawings to city submittal, plan check corrections, and final inspection: KHB carries your project through the permit process across the Central Valley.
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If you have architect or designer plans ready for city submittal — or a project that still needs drawings — KHB Construction handles the entire permitting path: completing and correcting construction documents, structural and Title 24 energy coordination, submitting to your city or county building department, answering plan check corrections, pulling the permit, and then actually building the project as your licensed general contractor (CSLB #1070537).
We work with every jurisdiction in our service area — the City of Modesto Building Safety Division, Stockton’s Permit Center, Turlock Building & Safety, the Ripon, Manteca, and Tracy building departments, plus Stanislaus and San Joaquin County offices for unincorporated parcels. If your plans are sitting in a drawer because the submittal process is a maze, this is the service that un-sticks them.
Last updated: June 2026 · Reviewed by the KHB Construction team
Homeowners come to us at three stages, and we pick the project up at any of them:
In every case, one company is accountable for the drawings passing plan check and the built result matching them.
From paper to framing. A KHB conversion project mid-build.
Every city runs the same basic gauntlet with local quirks:
1. Submittal. A complete set — architectural sheets, structural plans and calculations, Title 24 energy forms, site plan — filed with the building department (most local cities now take electronic submittals; Modesto uses eTRAKiT, Stockton uses an Accela-based E-Permit portal).
2. Plan check. City or third-party reviewers check code compliance. First responses typically come back in 2–6 weeks for residential work depending on the jurisdiction’s workload.
3. Corrections. Almost every set gets comments. Each correction round adds weeks — which is why complete, jurisdiction-tuned drawings matter more than fast ones.
4. Permit issuance. Fees paid, permit card issued, construction legally begins.
5. Inspections. Foundation, framing, rough trades, insulation, drywall, final — scheduled in sequence as the build progresses.
KHB manages all five stages. Our drawings are produced to each city’s checklist, which is why most of our submittals clear with minimal correction rounds.
The honest answer: residential permit submittals fail on completeness, not concepts. Missing structural calculations. No Title 24 energy forms. Site plans without setbacks dimensioned. Plans drawn in another state that don’t reflect California seismic and energy code. The counter staff can’t fix any of that — they can only reject it.
A licensed design-build contractor solves this differently than a permit runner: we don’t just carry documents downtown, we’re responsible for their contents — and for building what they show. That’s also why cities take our submittals seriously: the company on the application is the company pulling the permit and calling the inspections.
Yes — that’s a core KHB service. We review the set for completeness against your city’s checklist, give you a fixed construction price, handle the submittal and plan check corrections (coordinating with your architect where their stamp is needed), pull the permit, and build the project.
A permit expediter is a courier-plus: they file documents and track the application, but they don’t fix what’s in the drawings and they don’t build anything. For residential projects it’s usually the wrong tool — incomplete drawings get rejected no matter who carries them. A design-build GC like KHB is accountable for the drawings, the permit, and the construction.
For complete, well-prepared residential sets: commonly 3–8 weeks from submittal to permit depending on the city and correction rounds. Incomplete sets can burn months in correction cycles. ADUs benefit from California’s statutory 60-day ministerial review clock.
City permit fees are set by each jurisdiction (plan check + permit + impact fees where applicable) and passed through at cost. KHB’s work — completing documents, submitting, managing corrections, inspections — is built into your design-build contract rather than billed as a separate expediting fee.
Yes — rescuing stalled submittals is common work. We pull the correction letter, fix the documents (structural, Title 24, detailing), resubmit, and carry it through. Bring us the city’s comments and we’ll tell you exactly what it takes.
Our permit work is part of design-build — accountability for drawings and construction together is the point. If you only need documents completed and submitted, contact us anyway: for the right project we can scope a documents-and-submittal engagement.
Bring us your drawings — or your correction letter. We’ll tell you exactly what’s missing, what it costs to finish, and how fast it can be permitted and built.
Or call (209) 528-0255 · CSLB #1070537
