Commercial Permit Drawings & Management — Toronto & GTA

Twenty Years of Building. Now Working for Your Permit.

Permit By Design exists because of a pattern we saw for two decades on construction sites across the GTA: permit drawings produced by people who had never built anything.

Our team comes from the construction side of the table — twenty-plus years of building commercial spaces across Toronto and the GTA. Restaurants, offices, retail units, warehouses. We priced the jobs, managed the trades, dealt with the change orders, and lived with the consequences of drawings that looked fine on paper but didn't survive contact with a real building.

That experience is the foundation of this firm. Every drawing package we produce is designed twice: once for the plan examiner who has to approve it, and once for the contractor who has to build it. Those are different audiences with different needs, and most drafting firms only serve the first one.

How We're Different

  • Construction-grade detail. Our drawings specify materials that are procurable, details that are buildable, and dimensions a site crew can actually work from.
  • Full permit management. Drawings, submission, examiner comments, revisions, and inspections — one team, one point of contact, start to finish.
  • BCIN-certified, professionally stamped. Every package is prepared and reviewed by qualified designers, with professional engineers engaged where the scope requires.
  • Straight answers. If your project doesn't need us, we'll say so. If a lease is a code-upgrade trap, we'll tell you before you sign it.

Where We Work

We serve seventeen municipalities across the GTA and Southwestern Ontario, from Toronto's downtown core to the industrial corridors of Vaughan and Mississauga to the heritage main streets of Hamilton, Guelph, and Cambridge. Visit our service areas for local permit information.

Let's Talk About Your Project

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