1.Acceptance of these terms
These Terms of Service form the agreement between every reader and visitor on the one hand and JOP DVLP LLC on the other, and they govern the use of the website reachable at the JOP DVLP domain. By opening a page on this site, submitting the contact form, writing to the mailbox or telephoning the number printed here, a person accepts and agrees to be bound by these terms in their then-current form. A person who does not accept any part of these terms is asked to stop using the site and the contact routes rather than proceeding under terms they reject.
The Company updates these terms from time to time and publishes the new version on this page, with an effective date shown at the top. Continued use of the site after a new version appears counts as acceptance of that version. Because these terms matter to a professional relationship, the Company recommends a visitor read them with the same care they would bring to reading a plat note block before signing it.
2.Who provides this site
This website is operated and published by JOP DVLP LLC, a limited liability company organised under the laws of the State of Utah and located at 2526 E Hillside Cir, Salt Lake City - 84109-4005, United States (US). The company carries on the design and consulting practice of residential land development planning, plat and subdivision design, grading and drainage planning, entitlement support, utility coordination and feasibility study preparation under the developer name JopDvlp.
References in these terms to the Company, the loft, JOP DVLP LLC, the Studio or the site owner all point to the same single corporate entity. No mention of the site changes the fact that the pages are marketing and service descriptions of a professional practice and that substantive professional engagements are entered into separately under their own written agreements and this document only where they apply to the site and its channels.
3.Permitted use of the site
The Company publishes this site so that landowners, builders, surveyors and planning professionals can understand the services offered and reach the loft with a question or a parcel. A visitor is welcome to read the content, share a link to a public page with a neighbour, and contact the Studio through the means shown. The site is provided for lawful, personal and business-internal purposes, and no unauthorised commercial resale of its copy is allowed.
A visitor must not attempt to defeat the security of the site, overload the hosting through automated scraping or repeated submissions, place harmful code on the site, or use the contact form to send unlawful, threatening or abusive material. The Company takes a calm view of genuine traffic, but it reserves the right to block an address or a pattern of access that damages the site or burdens the mailbox at the expense of legitimate enquirers.
4.The site is not a land professional
Nothing on this website is legal, surveying, hydrological or engineering advice in itself. The descriptions of hillside lot planning, drainage and entitlement support explain the kind of work the studio performs, but they do not turn a page of the site into a professional certificate or a recommendation for a particular parcel. A decision to buy, subdivide, grade or build on a specific piece of land should follow a study carried out for that land and the retained signatures of the licensed professionals who take responsibility for it.
General statements about slope, drainage or municipal process, including any summary on this site, may not hold for a given property because terrain and ordinances differ by parcel and by place. Any person who reads the site and then makes a land decision without engaging a qualified professional does so at their own risk and should not regard routine website copy as a substitute for an individual study.
5.Project engagement and proposals
Engaging the Company for planning work is a two step matter. The first step is a written request for a proposal, gathered through the contact form, a direct email or a telephone conversation. From that request the Studio prepares a scope note and a price for the parcel in view. The second step is the acceptance of that proposal. A person becomes a client of the loft only when the Company and that person have both agreed to a defined scope and fee, whether by a signed order form, an executed proposal document or a clear exchange of emails setting out the work and the price.
Merely reading the site, sending a general question, or asking for an exploratory chat does not create an engagement and carries no obligation to do further drawing work. Where a signed engagement states terms that differ from these site terms, the specific signed engagement governs the professional work, and these website terms continue to govern the plain use of the pages themselves.
6.Fees, quotes and payment
Fees for each project are set out in the proposal accepted by the client before work begins. A quote given for a described parcel reflects the scope written on the face of the quote and a stated survey base. Because hillside work can meet surprises in the field, the Company will always tell a client early if terrain, missing survey data or a late municipal requirement changes the practical amount of work requested, and any such change follows the change control described later in these terms rather than appearing as a surprise on an invoice.
Payment terms, including any deposit, milestone breaks and schedule, are recorded in the accepted proposal or order form. Unless a signed proposal states otherwise, invoices become due on the terms printed on the invoice and the Company may pause further work on a project whose account is materially overdue. Late payment may attract the interest rate allowed by Utah law. A client who questions a line on an invoice should raise it promptly; the loft prefers to fix an honest billing error fast rather than argue about it after the fact.
7.Deliverables and work product
The deliverable of most engagements is a set of professional drawings and documents, such as a feasibility memo, a plat sheet, a grading plan, a drainage plan, an exhibit packet or a technical summary, prepared for the stated use on the stated parcel. The Company prepares these files to a standard of ordinary professional skill and care for the scope actually engaged, and they are meant to be reviewed together with any survey base and any third party approvals cited in them.
Each deliverable is created for the specific client and the specific parcel named in the engagement. A set of drawings should not be reused on a different parcel, applied to a different regulatory regime, or handed on as the basis for someone else construction without fresh work by a qualified professional for that new situation. The Company delivers files in a mutually agreed electronic format and will not be responsible for loss traceable to a client altering a certified sheet or stripping its title block before use.
8.Duties of the client
For good work to be possible, a client must bring an honest picture. The client is responsible for supplying accurate ownership details, a lawful right to pursue the described development, and any material the client holds, such as an existing survey, an old plat or a farm water agreement, which the loft may reasonably rely on unless told otherwise. Where a client withholds a known issue, such as an unresolved boundary dispute or a pending code change, the drawings may rest on an incomplete foundation.
Timely answers also matter. If the Company asks a question or awaits a signature or a fee and the client delays, the project schedule shifts accordingly, and any milestone dates stated in the proposal are read as plans rather than guarantees when the delay is caused by the client. The client should also raise concerns about a sheet promptly so the drawing can be corrected while the work is fresh, because the professional review step is far cheaper than rebuilding a plat after recording begins.
9.Changes and extra work
Land projects evolve. A lot line may need to shift for a view, a drainage outfall may move after a site visit, or a municipality may add a condition late in review. The Company handles such movement through a simple principle: any meaningful change to the scope described in the accepted proposal is agreed in writing before the extra work is done, together with the effect, if any, on the fee and the schedule.
Small adjustments that sit within the original scope, such as correcting a drafting error or moving a note in line with an early reviewer comment, are handled as normal client service without renegotiation. Larger additions, such as adding a second subdivision phase, redesigning access after a survey reveals rock, or preparing an additional hearing package, are treated as new work with its own agreed price. This separation keeps the client fully informed and keeps the loft from quietly expanding a job past its agreed boundaries.
10.Reliance by third parties
A client may wish to share a produced sheet with a title company, a lender, a city, or a builder. The Company welcomes such sharing where it serves the parcel and the development that was engaged, and the drawings are typically prepared knowing that municipal staff and a title examiner will read them. Any third party that receives a sheet should rely on it only for the purpose and the parcel stated on the sheet itself.
Relying on a drawing for a different development, a different ownership, a different municipality or a different stage of approval is outside the purpose for which the work was made. The Company draws no professional responsibility to parties who take a sheet beyond its stated purpose, and any third party wishing to rely on a sheet for their own independent decision should arrange for that reliance through the client and, where appropriate, through the Company consent in writing.
11.Intellectual property
The words, drawings, layout and design of this website belong to JOP DVLP LLC or its content sources and are protected by copyright law. The copy and artistry of the pages may not be reproduced wholesale, republished as the work of another, or adapted to build a competing site without the written permission of the Company. Screenshots for a private note or a fair quotation with attribution are different and welcome.
For project work, the Company develops drawings and technical content under the professional standards, and the professional work product is inseparably bound up with the licensed discipline that certifies it. On full payment, the client receives the right to use the deliverables for the engaged parcel and purpose, as the deliverables are submitted to the approvals and the construction the engagement described. The underlying drafting methods, drawing templates and studio technique remain property of the loft, and neither the site copy nor the studio working methods may be resold as if they were a generic product.
12.Confidential working material
Coming over the transom into the loft there may be parcel surveys, ownership sketches, internal budgets or a description of a land strategy that a client has not yet told the market. The Company treats such material as confidential working information of the engagement and uses it only to serve the client and the parcel. It is not published, sold or passed to a competitor, and it is shared with supporting professionals only to the extent they need it for the project.
Confidentiality has reasonable edges. It does not cover information already in the public domain, information the Company lawfully receives from another source without a duty, or information it is legally obliged to reveal, such as under a subpoena or a regulator request. Where a law compels release, the Company will tell the client before it happens so the client can act, unless the law forbids the notice. These confidentiality promises survive the end of an engagement for as long as the material remains private and sensitive.
13.Warranty and disclaimer
The Company promises to perform any accepted professional engagement with ordinary skill and care, in line with the standards of the design and planning discipline and the code in force at the time of the work. Beyond that specific promise for engaged work, the site itself is provided on an as is and as available basis. The Company does not warrant that the pages will be error free, uninterrupted or suited to a particular reader purpose, and it makes no general warranty, express or implied, beyond what the law of Utah requires.
Statements made on the site about lot counts, municipal process or typical timelines are illustrative of the way the studio works and are not a guarantee of a result on any particular parcel. Because terrain and code decide so much of the outcome, no reader should treat a marketing sentence as a promise that their parcel will yield a set number of lots or sail through a particular hearing without condition.
14.Limit of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the State of Utah, neither JOP DVLP LLC nor its members, staff or supporting professionals will be liable to a visitor for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages arising from the use of this website, including lost profit, lost data or interruption of business, even if the Company was told that such damages might occur.
Where the Company is engaged for professional work and a legitimate claim arises from a fault in that work, the extent of the Company exposure is limited to the fee paid for the specific work in which the fault is found, unless a signed engagement states a lower or a higher agreed cap or a professional liability obligation as a matter of law cannot be limited. This ceiling lets the loft price its work affordably and, more importantly, keeps the working relationship fair: a small drafting project should not carry the open risk of an entire real estate development resting on it. Nothing in these terms limits liability where the law does not permit such a limit to apply.
15.Indemnification
As a condition of using the site, a visitor agrees to hold harmless JOP DVLP LLC from claims, losses, costs and legal expense that arise because the visitor misused the site in a way that these terms prohibit, sent harmful or unlawful material through the contact channel, or relied upon the content of the site contrary to the clear advice in these terms that site copy is not project specific professional work.
This indemnity is a balanced tool rather than a one sided tax. It exists to make sure that a person who causes the Company harm, for example through a mass automated attack or through publishing a defamatory note in an enquiry, does not shift the cost onto the loft and its other clients. A genuine client with a genuine complaint about performed work is covered elsewhere in these terms and is not asked to indemnify the Company for a service the Company itself failed to deliver.
16.Reading faults, omissions and terrain risk
Land development draws on data that is never perfect. A survey may be older than the current vegetation, a map note may be stale, and the ground itself collects snowfall differently than a drawing suggests. The Company brings professional judgement to such gaps, but it depends on the survey base and the records the client supplies and the public record provides. Where the base proves wrong after work has begun, the correction is handled under the change control described above rather than hidden.
Every hillside carries inherent risk that no drawing can erase, including slope movement, unstable soils, wildfire and the hydrology of a hard storm. The Company designs within what a reasonable professional can read from the engaged data. A client who needs reassurance scaled to a specific financial exposure should order the specific studies, such as a geotechnical report, that give that reassurance, because a density study or a plat base is not itself a substitute for a geotechnical investigation of a particular pad.
17.Interruptions and third party platforms
The Company provides the site as a service of the loft, but the smooth operation of the internet, the hosting provider and the visitor own connection are outside the Company control. The site may occasionally be unavailable for maintenance, for repairs or for reasons the Company cannot foresee, and the Company gives no guarantee of uninterrupted availability. Any scheduled maintenance will usually draw a brief notice, but the Company does not promise notice for every interruption.
The site also depends at times on third party platforms, such as the email infrastructure that carries the mailbox and the telephony service behind the published number. The Company selects reliable providers but does not warrant the performance of a service it does not itself run. If a third party channel fails, enquirers are welcome to use an alternative current channel to reach the loft, and the Company will answer through whichever route remains open.
18.Governing law and disputes
These terms and the relationship between a visitor and JOP DVLP LLC are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Utah, without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law rule that would cause a different law to apply. Federal law applies where it reaches the matter and is not displaced by this sentence.
In the first instance any difference about the site or about a project, apart from the emergency relief a party may need to protect a legal right, is best resolved by direct dialogue between the parties, because the categories of project this studio serves tend to be personal and specific rather than abstract. Where a dispute cannot be resolved amicably, the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the State of Utah. Nothing in these terms deprives a party of consumer protection that the law does not allow to be waived in the party region.
19.Whole agreement and severability
These website terms, together with any signed proposal or order for a specific engagement and the JOP DVLP LLC privacy policy, form the whole understanding about the ordinary use of this site and its contact channels. They replace earlier informal statements that may have been made in a chat or a note about how the site would behave, though a signed project agreement continues to govern the professional work it describes.
If a court holds any clause of these terms to be invalid, unenforceable or contrary to law, that clause will be read down to the smallest extent needed to make it effective, and the remaining clauses stay fully in force as if the defective clause were never present. A single finding of invalidity does not weaken the terms as a whole, and the Company will not treat the loss of one clause as an invitation to renegotiate the rest without notice.
20.Contact for the Company
Questions about these Terms of Service, about a quoted fee or about the way a project is proceeding can be put directly to the Company. JOP DVLP LLC can be reached by post at 2526 E Hillside Cir, Salt Lake City - 84109-4005, United States (US), by email at direct@jopdvlp.lol, or by telephone at +12344541043.
The Company reads its correspondance most days and will aim to answer within a couple of business days. Because land planning is a service business built on clear talk, the loft would rather have one precise question about a term or a price than have a client work from a wrong guess. Anyone with a concern is asked to raise it plainly and early, so the answer arrives in time to matter rather than after a decision has already been made on a misunderstanding.