Seattle · King County
Development & permitting consulting in Seattle
Seattle permits through its own department under a code that differs substantially from surrounding jurisdictions, with land use review, design review in many zones, and its own stormwater and tree protection standards. Remote code research and submittal preparation is often the right engagement shape here.
How CLD works in Seattle
Every engagement starts by confirming which jurisdiction has permitting authority over the parcel and what its current standards and timelines are. From there the work is the same discipline applied locally: read the site, read the code, get the team aligned, and drive the approval.
Seattle permits through its own department under a code that differs substantially from surrounding jurisdictions, with land use review, design review in many zones, and its own stormwater and tree protection standards. Remote code research and submittal preparation is often the right engagement shape here.
Common Seattle engagements
- Pre-purchase feasibility and due diligence
- ADU siting analysis and permitting
- Permits stalled in plan review
- Short plat and boundary line adjustment strategy
- Critical areas, buffers and geotechnical coordination
- Owner's representation through construction
More on King County
For jurisdiction detail, local constraints and the rest of the cities CLD serves, see the King County page.
Services
Where owners in Seattle usually start
Feasibility & Due Diligence
The cheapest problem is the one you find before closing. A feasibility review tells you what the parcel supports, what it will cost to get there, and whether to walk away.
Read more →Permitting & Entitlements
Plan review is a conversation with a reviewer who has a checklist and a queue. Projects move when someone reads what's actually being asked and answers it completely.
Read more →Short Plats & Subdivisions
A land division is an infrastructure project with lot lines drawn on it. The layout that maximizes lots on paper is often not the layout that survives review.
Read more →Critical Areas & Environmental
Critical areas don't make a site unbuildable. They make it a different site than the one you thought you were buying, and the difference is worth knowing early.
Read more →Have a project in Seattle?
The first conversation is a straight read on whether the project is workable and what it would take to move it. No charge for that call.