Pacoima New Construction Planned From the Curb In
New Construction in Pacoima measured from the curb first: the apron, meter boxes and parkway trees, the driveway grade and the service lines from the street.
The curb is the first thing we measure at a Pacoima lot: where the old driveway apron cuts it, how tall it stands against the yard, and where the water meter box, any hydrant and any parkway tree sit along it. Building a new apron in another spot takes its own city permit for work in the public way, so the curb can decide where the garage of a new house goes.
Aprons, the garage and the driveway grade
A moved or widened apron means sawing out curb and gutter and rebuilding them to the city's standard plan, and the old cut is closed with full-height curb. If the yard sits above or below the street, the drive from the sidewalk to the garage has to stay gentle enough that a car does not scrape, which can fix the garage slab height and with it the house floor. A meter box or a tree in the way can sometimes be moved, though each move is a separate application.
Service lines across the frontage
Water, sewer, gas and power all cross the frontage. A camera run from the house end of the sewer lateral to the main shows whether it can be reused. The water service is sized for the new fixtures plus the fire sprinklers a new house requires, and the electric utility designs the overhead drop or underground run. LADBS reviews the house, since Pacoima lies within the City of Los Angeles, while anything built in the public way is permitted separately through the city's Bureau of Engineering.
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The survey should run past the lot line to the face of the curb, picking up the apron, meter boxes, poles and parkway trees as well as grades and the lines themselves. Borings for the soils report are drilled once the footprint is roughed in. The frontage items settle the driveway and utility locations before the architect fixes the plan.
Until the new apron is built, trucks enter across the existing one. Crossing the curb anywhere else needs ramps, and heavy loads over a sidewalk can crack it, so plywood or steel plates spread the weight along that route. Curb, gutter or sidewalk damaged during the work is replaced to city standard before final, and we price the protection and the repair separately.
From permit-ready drawings, the house itself prices cleanly. The open question is the street, because a new house can trigger city requirements for frontage work such as new sidewalk, rebuilt curb or a corner ramp, drawn by a civil engineer under a separate permit. Until the city states its conditions, we price the likely frontage items at standard plan dimensions and mark them as pending.
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