Permit drawings
Site, floor, elevation, and section drawings prepared to the standard SDCI expects.
Who we are
The permit
specialists.
We're not architects, and we're not the city. We're the team that knows exactly what Seattle's permit process wants — and gets your residential project through it without the delays.
Why we exist
Delays come from
unclear rules.
Most permits don't stall because a project is hard. They stall because the requirements are unclear — which permit path applies, which drawings the city expects, which forms, how to answer a correction, and how long it should really take.
We started Westwood to take that uncertainty off homeowners and small builders. Residential permitting in Seattle should be something you understand and can afford to navigate — not a black box you pay an architect by the hour to open.
So we do one thing: we get residential projects through the city, cleanly, on a flat fee.
What we do
The paperwork, start to issuance.
Code documentation
Energy code, structural notes, and the supporting paperwork that keeps a submittal from bouncing.
Application & submittal
Forms prepared, filed online, and tracked through intake and review.
Correction responses
Every reviewer comment answered and resubmitted, through to issuance.
Who we help
Built for residential.
- Homeowners adding a DADU or backyard cottage
- Owners converting a basement, attic, or garage into a legal ADU
- Families building a new home or a teardown-rebuild
- Small builders and investors developing middle housing
- Anyone legalizing work that was done without a permit
What makes us different.
Permit specialists, not a design firm
We do one thing — get residential projects through the city — and we do it faster and cheaper than carrying a full architecture retainer for the paperwork.
Residential-first, Seattle-deep
DADU, ADU, new single-family, and middle housing are our entire focus. We track SDCI rules and Washington's new middle-housing and ADU laws because that's the work, not a sideline.
We stay through corrections
The hard part is the back-and-forth after submittal. We don't hand you a package and disappear — we manage every cycle until the permit is in hand.
Westwood Express Permitting is a private permit-expediting service. We are not the City of Seattle, SDCI, or any government agency, and we don't issue permits — we prepare and manage your application so the city can.
Have a project
you want permitted?
Tell us about your lot and what you want to build. We'll map the path before you commit to anything.