More house on the same lot.

Additions happen in Rio Vista because the alternative is leaving, and nobody leaves a street like this willingly. The same few projects come up again and again: a rear extension pushing a family room and primary suite toward the canal on the Rio Vista Isles streets, a second story over a 1950s ranch near Hector Park, a garage converted into a guest suite off Cordova Road, an in-law wing for a household that keeps growing in both directions. The work is making the new part look like it never was.

Fort Lauderdale reviews additions against its Unified Land Development Regulations before the building permit ever opens. Rio Vista is single-family zoned, and the district your lot sits in fixes the setbacks, the lot coverage and the height you have to build inside; anything reaching toward a canal also answers to the city's waterway standards. Variances go to the Board of Adjustment, not to a design board, since Rio Vista is not a designated historic district. On flood-zone parcels the city's floodplain administrator applies the federal substantial improvement test, which can reshape a project before it is drawn. Structural engineering and HVHZ approvals are assumed.

The hard parts of an addition are the joints. New footings have to meet old ones without arguing, tie-beams and roof framing have to land where the engineer drew them, and the stucco and tile have to age into the original rather than announce themselves. PGX handles that seam work directly, keeps the occupied side of the house sealed and usable, and runs a quiet site on a street where everyone knows everyone. Fixed written scope, daily supervision, one team from feasibility through warranty, under Lic. CGC1539072.