Permitting & Compliance · Bay Harbor Islands, FL
Nothing open, nothing outstanding.
PGX Builders Group files Bay Harbor Islands work through the town's Building & Zoning Department, specifies Miami-Dade approved products, meets every inspection, and closes out the old permits that surface when a property changes hands. Licensed general contractor, CGC1539072.
Permitting & Compliance in Bay Harbor Islands
A small town with a long memory.
Bay Harbor Islands is two islands and about a third of a square mile, which makes the building record here unusually complete and unusually easy to check. West Island houses from the late 1940s and 1950s have changed hands several times, and somewhere in that chain a Florida room got enclosed, a bathroom moved, or windows were swapped on a quiet Saturday. On the East Island, where only multifamily and commercial buildings are allowed, the same history sits in a co-op or condo file. None of it matters until a title company or a lender runs a permit search.
Permits are issued and inspected by the Town of Bay Harbor Islands Building & Zoning Department, and applications, inspections and permit history all run through the town's Citizenserve portal, searchable by address, owner name or folio. Windows, doors, roofing, electrical and plumbing each take a separate permit and a separate inspection. Exterior work goes to the Design Review Board. Every opening needs a current Miami-Dade product approval, because this is the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. Older houses meet FEMA substantial-improvement limits, and East Island buildings carry county recertification, milestone inspections and reserve studies on top of all of it.
PGX Builders Group has spent more than twenty years on South Florida projects, 150-plus remodels and additions, every one of them permitted and inspected. We file under our own license, CGC1539072, and coordinate the engineer, architect and product documentation each submittal needs instead of handing an owner a reading list. The scope is written before anything is demolished, a supervisor stands on site every day work moves, and the person who meets the inspector is the person who built the wall in question. We do not expedite anything improperly. We submit complete, and complete moves faster.
Where we work in Bay Harbor Islands
Elsewhere in Bay Harbor Islands? Call us — if it's in Miami-Dade or Broward, we probably build there.
What's included
Where a permit file goes wrong.
Whether you are starting a renovation or cleaning up somebody else's, these are the five places a Bay Harbor Islands property record gets stuck, and what we do about each.
Expired permits on the islands
We pull the town record, establish what each permit actually covered, and take it through re-inspection, revision or a replacement permit until the file reads closed.
Complete permit applications
Drawings, calculations and code references submitted to the Building & Zoning Department in the first package, so the reviewer sends back comments rather than a rejection.
Design review submittals
Exterior changes, additions and facade work prepared and presented to the town's Design Review Board, which sits on a meeting calendar nobody accelerates.
Miami-Dade product approvals
Windows, doors and roof assemblies specified with current HVHZ approvals and installed to the anchorage method in the paperwork the inspector will be holding.
Recertification repair work
Concrete, balcony, waterproofing and electrical repairs called for by a recertification or milestone report, built to your engineer of record and the board's access rules.
How we work
A remodel is a promise. We keep it in writing.
AFixed scope, honest pricing
A detailed written scope before we start — so the number you sign is the number you pay, and changes are decisions, not surprises.
BA superintendent on site, daily
Your project is run by someone whose name you know, who answers the phone, and who walks the site every working day.
CBuilt to code, warrantied in writing
HVHZ-rated products, inspected phases, closed permits, and a written warranty when we hand back the keys.
How it goes
From first walk to final walk-through.
Walk-through & estimate
We visit, measure, listen, and come back with a real scope and a real number — not a teaser.
1–2 weeksDesign & permits
Drawings, engineering where needed, product approvals, and the permit package — filed and tracked by us.
4–10 weeksConstruction
Scheduled trades, daily supervision, weekly updates with photos, and inspections we prepare for and attend in person.
Per scopeCloseout & warranty
Punch list cleared, permits closed, documents handed over, warranty in writing. Then we leave it spotless.
1–2 weeksFAQ
Straight answers.
A permit search on my Bay Harbor Islands house came back with something open. What now?
Who issues building permits in Bay Harbor Islands, the town or Miami-Dade County?
Do I need Design Review Board approval to change windows or repaint?
Our East Island building has a recertification notice. Can PGX do the repairs?
What does it cost to clear up a permit problem?
Contact
Give us the folio number
Address, owner name or folio, any one gets us the file. We will tell you what is open and what closing it takes, in English o en español.