White County Statewide code, local enforcement optional
Barndominium Builders in White County, AR
White County covers 1,033.97 square miles — second only to Union among Arkansas counties — and holds 80,085 people at about 78 per square mile, so almost all of it is open country. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas calls it "a microcosm of the state as a whole," and it earns that: the Ozark Escarpment ends in the north-west, the Ouachitas' last east–west ridges rise in the south-west, the Grand Prairie begins south of the Little Red River, and the eastern edge is White River alluvium. That is four different sets of ground in one county, and it changes the foundation, the septic field and the flood answer as you move across it.
White County at a glance
- County
- White County
- Population
- 80,085
- ZIP codes
- 72143, 72010, 72012, 72081, 72121, 72137, 72020, 72136, 72102, 72060, 72045, 72082, 72068, 72085
- Site visits
- White County sits inside our regular central Arkansas coverage, from Beebe and McRae up the US-67/167 corridor through Searcy, Judsonia and Bald Knob and out to Pangburn, Rose Bud and El Paso, so site walks, soil-pit visits and trips to the Searcy inspection counter are ordinary scheduling here rather than a special trip.
Building conditions in White County
The State's code reaches every parcel in Arkansas, including rural and unincorporated land. What is not everywhere is the office that checks it: a city or county is authorised to set up a building department, not required to, and a great deal of rural Arkansas never has. So the first question on any parcel is not what the code says — that part travels — but whether anyone here issues a permit, inspects the work, or publishes the design criteria your drawings still have to satisfy. Where nobody does, the obligation does not go away. It just moves to the appraiser, the insurer, your lender and whoever buys the place from you.
https://www.cityofsearcy.org/s/2025-27-ORDINANCE-Subdivision-Code-Amendments-ETJ.pdf
Also worth knowing before you build in White County
- Four White County towns are outside the flood insurance programme and under sanction
- FEMA's community status data for White County lists sixteen communities. Twelve participate in the National Flood Insurance Program, including unincorporated White County, community 050467, which entered the Regular Program on 1 March 2000 after a flood hazard boundary map dated 7 June 1977 and a first flood insurance rate map dated 1 March 2000. Four do not participate and are recorded as sanctioned: Griffithville, Russell, Rose Bud and West Point. Inside those four town limits federal flood insurance is not written, which reaches the mortgage before it reaches the building. The countywide map in force for every community in White County took effect on 2 May 2012.
- One acre in eight is mapped as frequently flooded
- SSURGO puts 80,339 acres of White County — 12.0% of the county's 666,777 mapped acres — on components rated "Frequent" for flooding, with another 27,772 acres "Occasional" and 5,384 "Rare." The frequently flooded ground is the eastern and central bottoms: Kobel silty clay, frequently flooded, is a single 40,800-acre map unit, Tichnor silt loam adds 24,379 acres and Oaklimeter and Commerce another 23,656 between them. Separately, 163,173 acres of the county — 24.5% — carry a hydric rating. This is the practical shape of the Little Red and White River floodplains, and it is why the eastern third of the county reads as cheap on a per-acre screen and expensive once a finished-floor elevation is priced.
- Bedrock is within reach of a footing on two fifths of the county, and within 17 inches on the Mountainburg soils
- SSURGO records a lithic bedrock restriction on 168,231 acres of White County and a paralithic restriction on a further 112,833 — together 42.2% of the county. The depths matter more than the share. The Mountainburg components, roughly 35,000 acres of the western hills, hit hard sandstone at 30 to 43 centimetres, twelve to seventeen inches down. Linker, the county's most extensive soil, meets rock at 79 to 94 centimetres. Steprock's paralithic contact sits at 69 centimetres. Against the Arkansas Department of Health's requirement of 18 to 36 inches of separation between a trench bottom and bedrock, the Mountainburg ground simply cannot take a conventional field, and a pier or a stepped footing is often cheaper than the rock excavation a full-perimeter footing would need.
- A fragipan sits under 167,682 acres at exactly trench depth
- A quarter of White County — 167,682 acres, 25.1% — has a fragipan, a dense brittle pan that roots and water will not pass. It is not deep. Leadvale's pan begins at 64 centimetres, Calloway's at 64, Sidon's at 64, Taft's at 58 to 61, Guthrie's at 56 and Immanuel's at 84. That is roughly 22 to 33 inches, which is the depth an absorption trench is dug to. A fragipan perches water above itself through winter and spring, which is what the Arkansas Department of Health's rule reads as a seasonal water table in the soil pit, and its sizing charts respond by making the field bigger. On a Leadvale or Calloway site the field is a design problem before it is a cost problem — budget the soil pits early and site the house around the answer, not the other way round.
- The only county sign-off on splitting land here is a 9-1-1 address approval
- White County Ordinance 2012-005, passed 29 March 2012 and amended by Ordinance 2015-018 on 24 February 2015, is codified at § 1120.01 of the county code: "The White County Circuit Clerk will not accept any plat map from a person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other entity until the White County 9-1-1 Office has approved the addresses and/or street name." There is no planning board to approve a plat, no subdivision ordinance and no setback rule — the one county office that has to sign is the 9-1-1 addressing office, and the ordinance carries an emergency clause reciting that the system "would assist emergency services in locating roads and addresses." New address requests go through the Office of Emergency Management at 2301 Eastline Road in Searcy.
- The county judge's published job description is roads, property, veterans, 911 and the budget
- White County's own page for the county judge lists the office's duties: authorising disbursement of appropriated funds, operating the county road system, administering ordinances passed by the quorum court, custody of county property, accepting grants, hiring county employees, and presiding over the quorum court with a veto but no vote. It then adds, in the county's words, that "White County is the second largest land mass in Arkansas with the largest County road system," and lists the rest as "taking care of all county property and facilities, Veterans affairs, 911 dispatch, Department of emergency management and maintaining the County's budget." Building permits, inspections and zoning appear nowhere on that list, and no department on the county's site performs them.
- The county's floodplain role sits inside emergency management, not a building office
- The White County Office of Emergency Management, at 2301 Eastline Road in Searcy, lists "Certified Floodplain Manager" twice on its own page — once under Response and once in its list of Emergency Management Responsibilities, alongside 911 addressing, the hazard mitigation plan, Tier II hazards, fire coordination for thirty White County fire departments and reporting to FEMA and ADEM. That is the shape of floodplain administration in a county with no building department: the National Flood Insurance Program obliges the county to manage development in the mapped floodplain, and the office that does it is emergency management, reachable at 501-279-6277. If a site touches the mapped floodplain, this is the county phone call — and it is the only one a build here generates.
- Four physiographic regions inside one county line
- The Encyclopedia of Arkansas entry for White County states that "Geographically, it is a microcosm of the state as a whole," and then names the parts: "Southwestern White County contains the northeastern-most extension of the Ouachita Mountains and is characterized by east-west trending ridges characteristic of the Ouachitas. The north-central and northwestern parts of the county contain the eastern terminus of the Ozark Escarpment. The southeastern half of the county can be further divided into two regions: in general, the land north of the Little Red River is lowland forests and farmland, and the area south of the Little Red River is the northern terminus of the Grand Prairie." The county's own About page puts it more plainly: "From hill country to plains."
- 1,552 farms, a median of 80 acres, and 538 of them under 50 acres
- The 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,552 farms in White County on 376,803 acres — 56.9% of the county — with an average size of 243 acres. The distribution is what matters to somebody looking for a homesite: 78 farms of 1 to 9 acres, 460 of 10 to 49, 573 of 50 to 179, 281 of 180 to 499, 90 of 500 to 999 and 70 at 1,000 acres or more. More than a third of the county's farms are under 50 acres, and 630 of them — 41% — sold less than $2,500 of product in 2022. This is fine-grained ownership by Arkansas standards, and the opposite of the Delta counties east of here where the median farm runs into the hundreds of acres and nothing sells in a homesite size.
- Hay is the biggest crop and poultry is the biggest cheque
- White County's land in farms splits 159,308 acres of cropland, 99,398 of woodland and 94,374 of pastureland, with 56,117 acres irrigated. The top crop by acreage is forage — hay and haylage — at 58,447 acres, with soybeans second at 42,902. But 73% of the county's $236.3 million of 2022 agricultural sales is livestock and poultry, and poultry and eggs alone account for $153.3 million, fourth among all 75 Arkansas counties. That combination — hay ground and poultry houses in the west, row crop in the east — is why the pole barn is the native building type here and why the trades that put up a post-frame shell are already local.
- Searcy publishes the codes it enforces; the county publishes none
- The City of Searcy's Building Codes page lists what its inspectors enforce: the Arkansas Fire Prevention Code, 2021 Edition; NFPA 101 Life Safety Code, 2003 Edition, as adopted by the State of Arkansas; the Arkansas State Plumbing Code, 2018 Edition; the Arkansas State Gas Code, 2018 Edition; the International Mechanical Code, 2021 Edition; the National Electric Code, 2020 Edition, "as currently adopted by the State of Arkansas"; and the city's own zoning code, updated June 2024, and land development and subdivision regulations. Chapter 7 of the city code adopts the state code by reference "as may be adopted by the State of Arkansas and as may be amended from time to time" — a rolling adoption running back to Ordinance No. 336 of 5 February 1952.
- The county code is maintained by an insurance fund and was last updated online in 2018
- White County's code of ordinances carries a publisher's note on its own landing page: "The White County code is updated by the Association of Arkansas Counties Risk Management Fund and hosted online in PDF format by Municode," with online content updated on 29 August 2018. That is worth knowing for two reasons. It explains the shape of the code — it follows the Association's model chapter structure, which is why the planning and zoning article exists as a heading with the state statute under it and nothing else. And it means the codified volume is not a live register: a floodplain management ordinance the county must hold to stay in the National Flood Insurance Program does not appear in it, so ordinance questions here go to the county clerk rather than to the online code.
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/white-county-814/
https://www.cityofsearcy.org/cityservices/building-codes-enforced
https://library.municode.com/ar/white_county/codes/code_of_ordinances
Below the slab
The expensive surprises are in the ground, not the building
What moves an Arkansas budget is usually below grade, and the state hands you a different problem depending on where you stand. In the Delta the issue is shrink-swell clay that moves with the season, and it is the reason a wide, light building with a big slab and a big door opening is the shape most at risk. Along the Fall Line there is a second, separate clay belt with nothing to do with the Delta at all. Up in the Ozarks the question inverts: what matters is not what the slab sits in but what is under it, because that limestone is full of solution cavities and the collapses arrive with no prior indication at the surface. And on Crowley's Ridge, where Jonesboro and Paragould sit, it is fine wind-blown loess that stands up in a vertical cut and then erodes out from under whatever you put on it. The same ground decides your wastewater system, which is the gate that most often moves a rural build's schedule — and it is soils that decide it, not the size of the house. So the site work, the foundation and the wastewater get resolved together rather than one at a time. We price the dirt before we price the building.
What we build in White County
All nine services are available in White County. What a build costs depends far more on the parcel than on square footage, so we price against your land rather than publishing a rate card.
Custom Barndominium Plans
Barndominium floor plans, elevations and engineered documents drawn to your parcel — and to the design numbers your Arkansas jurisdiction publishes.
Barndominium Kits
Engineered barndominium shell packages for Arkansas land, drawn to a named jurisdiction's criteria rather than to a national vendor's generic spec.
Turnkey Barndominium Builds
Land through handover under one contract, and a straight answer on what actually gates a barndominium build on rural Arkansas land.
What a build looks like
Three stages every White County project passes through, from a raw parcel to a finished home. Site work first, because that is where the budget is decided.
The parcel
Zoning, setbacks, flood zone and utility access get checked before anything is drawn.
Pad and permit
Clearing, grading and a compacted pad, while the submittal works through whichever office issues the permit where you are building.
Frame to finish
Shell erected and dried in, then systems, insulation and interior finish through to CO.
Those are the rules where you are building in White County. Tell us what you want to build and we will draw it to them.
Where we build around White County
White County and the rural land around it. The buildable acreage for a project this size usually sits outside the city limits, which is frequently what changes who issues your permit.
Keep reading
The questions that usually come next once you know what White County allows.
Barndominium Cost Guide
Sourced per-square-foot ranges by tier and by size, with a calculator built on the same figures.
Read itThe Arkansas Building Code
The code applies statewide, including unincorporated land — but a jurisdiction is only authorized to establish a building department, so on rural residential land there is often no counter at all.
Read itBuying Land in Arkansas
Where acreage is actually purchasable in homesite sizes, and what percolation, slope and the onsite wastewater rule do to a parcel before anything is designed.
Read itNearby areas we build in
Others we cover nearby. One may be a county, another a city inside it — and since March 2025 the soft edge between them is gone, because the cities' extraterritorial jurisdiction was abolished outright and that land reverted to the counties. So the office that issues the permit, the fees it charges, the zoning and whether anyone publishes design criteria at all can differ from one card to the next, and the boundary that decides it may have moved recently.
Building in White County: common questions
9 questions we get asked most often about building in White County. If yours is not on the list, ask it directly.
Do I need a building permit for a barndominium in unincorporated White County?
No. There is no county building department, no county building permit, no county plan review and no county certificate of occupancy in unincorporated White County. The county's own published code settles it without ambiguity: Chapter 13 of the White County Code of Ordinances, headed "Urban / Rural Development," contains an Article I titled "BUILDING" whose whole content is the word "Reserved," and an Article II titled "PLANNING / ZONING" that reprints A.C.A. §§ 14-17-209 and 14-17-210 and then says "Reserved" as well. Arkansas makes county land-use regulation a two-step opt-in. Under A.C.A. § 14-17-203(a) the county judge "may create" a county planning board with the approval of a majority of the quorum court; only once that board exists may the quorum court adopt a zoning ordinance, and § 14-17-209(c) then says the ordinance "shall be observed through denial of the issuance of building permits and use permits." White County has never taken the first step, so there is no board, no ordinance and no permit to deny. That is not a gap in the record; it is the record. What still applies is everything that never depended on a county counter: the Arkansas Fire Prevention Code as the governing technical standard, the state plumbing code, which A.C.A. § 17-38-103(a) makes binding on "all types of buildings, private or public, rural or urban," state licensing of electricians, plumbers and HVACR mechanics, the Arkansas Department of Health's onsite wastewater permit, and floodplain requirements where the site is mapped.
So what does it cost to permit a barndominium inside Searcy, and how does that compare?
Searcy publishes its fees in its own ordinance, which very few Arkansas jurisdictions do. Chapter 31 of the Searcy Code of Ordinances, § 31-2-3, as amended by Ordinance No. 2021-18, sets the residential building permit at "$15.00 permit fee, plus $.30 per square foot under roof." A certificate of occupancy is $25.00. Electrical is a $15.00 permit fee plus a $35.00 inspection fee; heating and air is $15.00 per unit plus $35.00. No single trade pays less than $50.00 in permit and inspection fees combined. Re-inspections run $35.00 a visit under § 31-1-6, and § 31-1-8 fines work started before a permit at $100.00 per day, each day a separate offence. There is no impact fee. The detail that matters most for this building type is the measurement: the fee runs on square feet under roof, not heated square feet, and Searcy's own application form asks for both figures on separate lines. A barndominium's shop half is under the same roof as its living half, so it is inside the fee base. A 3,200-square-foot building is $960 of building permit before the certificate of occupancy and the trade permits. Detached accessory buildings are cheaper — $15.00 plus $2.50 per $1,000 of estimated cost, with anything 200 square feet or less exempt — and Searcy's form requires them to stand at least five feet off the rear and side property lines. Outside the incorporated towns, none of this exists and none of it is charged.
Searcy used to plan a mile outside its limits. What happened to that land?
It reverted to the county, and the county regulates nothing. Act 314 of 2025 repealed A.C.A. § 14-56-413 outright, abolishing municipal extraterritorial jurisdiction in Arkansas altogether. Until then a city of Searcy's size administered planning ordinances a mile beyond its corporate limits, and the same applied around Beebe, Bald Knob, Judsonia and Bradford. Searcy did not leave the change implicit. On 9 December 2025 the city council passed Ordinance No. 2025-27, titled in part "REMOVING REGULATION OF EXTRATERRITORIAL JURRISDICTION; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY," amending the Searcy Land Development and Subdivision Regulations "to remove all regulation of extraterritorial jurisdiction pursuant to Act 314 of the State of Arkansas 95th General Assembly Regular Session 2025." It struck "territorial jurisdiction" from the purpose and jurisdiction chapters and deleted the definition that had read "TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION: All land lying within the Planning Area of the Searcy Planning Commission, established by the Searcy City Council." The jurisdiction clause now reads simply that a subdivider "of land within the City of Searcy" submits plats to the planning commission. The practical effect for a buyer: land in the old ring — the ground with the best combination of acreage and commute in the whole county — now sits under no planning authority whatsoever. Any handout, article or agent's description written before mid-2025 that describes a Searcy planning area outside the city limits is describing something that no longer exists.
Is there anything the county does regulate?
Two things touch a build, and neither is a building permit. The first is addressing. White County Ordinance 2012-005, passed 29 March 2012 and amended by Ordinance 2015-018 in February 2015, provides that the White County Circuit Clerk "will not accept any plat map from a person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other entity until the White County 9-1-1 Office has approved the addresses and/or street name." If land is being split and a plat recorded, that approval is the one county sign-off in the chain, and it exists for emergency response rather than for land use. New and changed addresses are handled by the Office of Emergency Management at 2301 Eastline Road in Searcy, 501-279-6277. The second is the floodplain. Unincorporated White County has participated in the National Flood Insurance Program since 1 March 2000, which obliges it to manage development in the mapped Special Flood Hazard Area, and the county's Office of Emergency Management lists "Certified Floodplain Manager" among its own published responsibilities alongside 911 addressing, the hazard mitigation plan and reporting to FEMA and ADEM. Beyond those, the county judge's published duties are roads, county property, veterans' affairs, 911 dispatch, emergency management and the budget. There is no third thing. Utility placement in a county right-of-way needs the county judge's approval under § 1120.00 of the code, which is a utility rule rather than a building one.
What does the ground actually do here — this county seems to change as you cross it?
It does, and it is the single most useful thing to understand before choosing a tract. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas calls White County "a microcosm of the state as a whole": the eastern terminus of the Ozark Escarpment in the north-west, the last east–west Ouachita ridges in the south-west, the northern tip of the Grand Prairie south of the Little Red River, and White River alluvium along the eastern boundary. SSURGO puts numbers on that. Half the county — 338,243 acres, 50.7% — sits under 3% slope, and only 8.5% is at 12% or steeper, so this is not a hillside county the way Madison or Washington are. The largest single map unit in the county is Linker fine sandy loam on 3 to 8 percent slopes, 82,613 acres of well-drained sandy loam with sandstone at 79 to 94 centimetres, and that band is where a slab wants to be. The problems are at the two ends. In the western hills the Mountainburg components — roughly 35,000 acres — carry hard sandstone at 30 to 43 centimetres, twelve to seventeen inches, which is above footing depth. In the eastern bottoms, Kobel silty clay, frequently flooded, is a single 40,800-acre map unit of poorly drained vertic clay, and 24.5% of the whole county carries a hydric rating. White County returns no Vertisols at all in SSURGO; its shrink-swell soils are the vertic-intergrade Alfisols Jackport and Gore, and about 15% of the county measures a linear extensibility of 6 or more in the upper metre — real, but a fraction of what the Delta counties east of here return.
What will the septic system be like on a rural White County tract?
It is the practical gate on nearly every unincorporated site, and in this county it is usually decided by one of two things: a fragipan or bedrock. A fragipan — a dense brittle pan that neither roots nor water will pass — underlies 167,682 acres of White County, a quarter of it, and it is shallow. Leadvale, Calloway and Sidon put theirs at 64 centimetres, Taft at 58 to 61, Guthrie at 56, Immanuel at 84. That is roughly 22 to 33 inches below grade, which is trench depth. A pan at that height perches water above itself through winter and spring, the soil pit shows it as redoximorphic mottling, and the Arkansas Department of Health's rule reads that as a seasonal water table and sizes the absorption field bigger. Bedrock does the same job at the other end of the county: the rule wants 18 to 36 inches of separation between the bottom of the trench and rock, and on the Mountainburg soils rock is at twelve to seventeen inches. The process itself is statewide. A minimum of two soil pits is required before anything is designed, one in the primary absorption area and one in the secondary. A Designated Representative prepares the Part I permit for construction; the installer notifies the authorised agent at least 24 hours before starting; and the system may not be used until the Part III permit for operation is issued. The Department's plan-review fee is set by heated structure size — $30 up to 1,500 square feet, $45 to 2,000, $90 to 3,000, $120 to 4,000, $150 above — and the rule expressly excludes "garages, carports, porches, and other similar areas" from the square-footage calculation, which on this building type usually means the shop bay does not count toward the fee band.
How much of a flood problem is this, and which parts of the county should I check first?
Enough to check every time. SSURGO maps 80,339 acres of White County — 12.0%, one acre in eight — as frequently flooded, with a further 27,772 acres occasional and 5,384 rare. The Little Red River runs north-west to south-east across the county and empties into the White River, which forms the eastern boundary, and the frequently flooded soils trace both: Kobel silty clay at 40,800 acres, Tichnor at 24,379, Oaklimeter and Commerce at another 23,656 between them. The current flood insurance rate maps for every community in White County took effect on 2 May 2012, and unincorporated White County has been in the Regular Program of the National Flood Insurance Program since 1 March 2000, following a flood hazard boundary map dated 7 June 1977. There is a second thing to check, and almost nobody does: FEMA's community status data lists four White County towns as not participating in the programme and recorded as sanctioned — Griffithville, Russell, Rose Bud and West Point. Inside those town limits federal flood insurance is not available, which becomes a lender's problem long before it becomes a builder's. Georgetown, Bradford, Bald Knob, Judsonia, Kensett, McRae, Beebe, Higginson, Garner, Pangburn and Searcy all participate. Whichever side of the county a tract is on, get the panel and the base flood elevation before the pad is designed, not after.
Can I actually buy a homesite-sized piece of White County, and where?
Yes, and this is one of the better counties in central Arkansas for it. White County is 1,033.97 square miles, second in land area only to Union, with 80,085 people at 77.5 per square mile and growth of 4.2% since 2020. The 2022 Census of Agriculture counts 1,552 farms on 376,803 acres — 56.9% of the county — but the useful number is the distribution rather than the total: 78 farms of 1 to 9 acres, 460 of 10 to 49 and 573 of 50 to 179, so 67% of all farms in the county are under 180 acres and the median is 80. Only 70 operations exceed 1,000 acres. That is fine-grained ownership, and it is the reverse of the Delta counties an hour east, where a median farm of several hundred acres means cheap land that cannot be bought in a homesite size. As to where: the western and central uplands are the practical answer. The Linker, Leadvale and Immanuel country around Pangburn, Rose Bud, Romance, El Paso and the Judsonia–Searcy corridor gives gentle slope, drained soil and rock deep enough to dig, and US-67/167 through Beebe, McRae and Bald Knob puts a commute to north Pulaski County within reach. The eastern third — Griffithville, Georgetown, the Raft Creek and Hurricane Lake bottoms — is duck ground, public land and frequently flooded soil. It looks cheap for exactly the reasons that make it hard to build on.
If nobody inspects the build, what actually protects me?
The same things that would in a permitted city, minus the counter — and they are worth planning around deliberately rather than discovering late. The Arkansas Fire Prevention Code, 2021 Edition, Volume III is the governing residential standard and the Arkansas Department of Labor and Licensing states plainly that the code "applies Statewide, even in rural and unincorporated areas." What is missing in unincorporated White County is not the standard; it is plan review, the inspection sequence and the certificate of occupancy. Several requirements never depended on that counter at all. The state plumbing code applies by statute to "all types of buildings, private or public, rural or urban," and electricians, plumbers and HVACR mechanics are licensed by the State everywhere in Arkansas — and a rural water association connection pulls a site inside the rule requiring a licensed master plumber to be in charge of the installation. Be careful with the farm exemptions: A.C.A. § 17-28-102(a)(4) exempts "any nonresidential farm building or structure" from the electrical chapter, and § 17-38-302(2) exempts plumbing work on buildings "whose primary use is agricultural." A barndominium is a dwelling. Every one of those exemptions is drafted to stop at that word, and each exempts the licence, never the code. In practice the appraiser, the lender and the insurer become the inspection regime here, so an engineer's stamped foundation design, a documented inspection trail and a sequence of photographs are worth more on unpermitted land than they are inside Searcy, not less. And because White County computes six thousandths of a g over the IRC's Category D-sub-zero threshold, the seismic detailing is a live design question here rather than a formality — another reason to have the foundation engineered rather than assumed.
Building in White County?
Start with the plan. Tell us what you want to build and we will draw it, then confirm which office issues the permit for your parcel, what it will let you put there, and what wind load it has to meet. That conversation costs nothing.