ePlans

Most permit types can be applied for and/or issued online. Land Development Services now offers digital plan review - ePlans - for the following plan types.

Building ePlans: Getting Started

You must apply for your building permit at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/FIDO and submit all supplemental plans and documents electronically in one of three ways:

1.  Use our standard ePlans submission process

• New commercial structures
• Commercial interior alterations (plans that include exterior work need to be applied for and submitted via the paper process)
• New Single Family Dwellings

2.  Use our alternate ePlans submission process

• This is an operational change due to COVID19. These instructions will help you navigate the process.

3.  Use our Web Portal for the following permit types only:

• Areaway, residential
• Demolish entire structure
• Finished basements, residential
• Foundation repair, residential
• Interior alterations, residential
• New masonry chimney, residential
• Building sign permit, commercial

Site ePlans: Getting Started

To offer customers even more options for electronic submissions of plans and documents, LDS is now temporarily accepting through our Sharefile system any site-related plans and documents that you cannot submit through ProjectDox. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Public Improvement Plans (PI)
• Subdivision Plans (SD)
• Conservation Plans (CON)
• Rough Grading Plans (RGP)
• Subdivision Grading Plans (SDGP)
• Site Plan Grading Plans (SPGP)
• Plats
• Waivers
• Soils reports
• Parking studies

To submit documents through Sharefile, please email LDSsac@fairfaxcounty.gov.