{"id":414,"date":"2020-05-21T21:21:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T21:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.kadencewp.com\/blocks-saas\/?p=414"},"modified":"2025-10-30T18:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:31:13","slug":"cedar-homes-building-site-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cedardesigns.com\/us-en\/cedar-homes-building-site-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedar Homes Building Site Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Your Cedar Home, Custom Built on Your Building Lot<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The preparation of your building lot is the first step in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedardesigns.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">construction of a custom cedar home<\/a>. This comprises laying out the driveway, transporting utilities like water and electricity to the building&#8217;s real location, laying out the septic field if necessary, and laying out drainage lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Cedar Homes Foundations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The foundations for your cedar home will be excavated next. This could be as simple as concrete footings or as complex as a foundation wall. A walk-out or conventional basement is frequently incorporated, and concrete floors are also built at this phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>TIPS ON LOT SETBACKS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A setback is the distance which a structure must be set back from a street, road or water on a building lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>\u201cWhat are my construction lot size setbacks?\u201d<\/strong><\/em> is one of the first questions to address before looking at home or building blueprints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>As a general guideline, setbacks should be 5 feet on either side of the lot width line, and up to 50 feet if you are near water. This measurement, however, is not always accurate&#8230; It is best to double-check with your local government. It also varies from building lots that are shaped irregularly. This necessitates far more careful planning.<\/li><li>When building in rural areas you also need to look into codes for wells and septic and how setbacks work with these factors.<\/li><li>Most suburbs-built decades ago had narrow building lots with 5-to-15-foot setbacks between residences&#8230; Requirements in America have recently been lowered to allow new houses to be built closer to the street.<\/li><li>Consider the overall size of the house in addition to setbacks&#8230; In most cases, the construction of your custom home cannot take up more than 35-40% of the whole landmass before infringements become an issue.<\/li><li>If an existing structure is to be demolished, permits for rebuilding must first be obtained, considering current setbacks, and building size.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>View our <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cedardesigns.com\/homes\/video-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Custom Home<\/strong> <strong>Video Tours<\/strong><\/a> and <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cedardesigns.com\/homes\/photo-gallery-most-popular-home-designs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Home Designs<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cedardesigns.com\/homes\/custom-home-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\">House Plans<\/a><\/strong> library to learn more about our custom home plans. Then <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cedardesigns.com\/homes\/request-a-call\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Contact Cedar Homes by Cedar Designs<\/strong><\/a> so we may advise you if the custom home design you love meets your building lot legal requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cedar Homes Building Site Preparation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":true,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"above","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[18,19],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cedar-homes","tag-cedar-homes","tag-custom-home-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cedardesigns.com\/us-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cedardesigns.com\/us-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cedardesigns.com\/us-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cedardesigns.com\/us-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cedardesigns.com\/us-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cedardesigns.com\/us-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3771,"href":"https:\/\/cedardesigns.com\/us-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/3771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cedardesigns.com\/us-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cedardesigns.com\/us-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cedardesigns.com\/us-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cedardesigns.com\/us-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}