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ePlanLA, short for Electronic Plan Review Los Angeles, is an online service for submitting plans for plan check, applying for permits, and tracking the progress of these applications. Plans submitted must be scaled pdf drawings. Plan review and correspondence will be done through the online service.

The steps of an ePlanLA application are:

1. Submit Application for Screening 
2. Application Review 
3. Plan Check 
4. Corrections Issued 
5. Plan Check Complete 
6. Permit Issued
 

LADBS currently provides electronic plan review services for following application types: 

• Building Plan Check
• Affordable Housing 
• Soft-Story Retrofit
• Tenant Improvement or Deferred Submittals
• Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU)
• Fences and Block Walls
• Swimming Pools and Spa
• Housing - Zoning Only
• Supplemental - Revisions to Projects Originally Submitted through ePlan
• Fire Sprinkler 
• HVAC
• Plumbing
• Elevator
• Residential Solar Photovoltaic
• Electrical

• The project is an apartment or commercial building; and
• The building is 2 stories or more; and
• The building is 4 units or more; and
• The project does not add new floor area; and
• The project must have no changes in use; and
• Only one building is allowed per plan check application.

one

• Installation of Fire Sprinkler for a single Family Dwelling or Duplex.
• Installation of Fire Sprinkler in a Commercial Building that is a. Four (4) stories or less and b. No more than a total of four (4) hydraulic calculations. 
• Installation of fire Sprinkler in an Apartment that is a. Four (4) stories or less and; b. No more than a total of four (4) hydraulic calculations.

• All plans and drawings need to be uploaded and submitted as single files in any of the following file formats/extensions: ADOBE, Vectored .PDF, .PDF

• All plans and drawing files must be saved and uploaded in LANDSCAPE page layout. 

• Drawing should be true-type fronts.

• The PDF files should have bookmarks based on sheet numbers for each sheet numbers for each sheet of the drawing set.

• Properly formatted and compressed PDF files should not exceed 50 megabytes (50MB) per file.

• A Plan Title (Cover) Page is require for each plan set.

• A Sheet Index must be included on the Plan Title Page.

• The upper right corner of ALL Plan and Title pages must be reserved for LADBS approval stamp (2.25” from the right edge, 0.25” from the top). See below sample for the Approval Stamp space and Sheet Index placement on the Title page.

• Structural calculations
• certificates
• plot plan
• reports
• Any other relevant, non drawing project documentation. 
• Structural calculations
• certificates
• plot plan
• reports
• Any other relevant, non drawing project documentation. 

must

• Plumbing systems for buildings of 4 stories or less and up to 5 sheets of riser diagrams.