The open permit, finally closed.

Palmetto Bay is mostly 1950s-to-70s ranch houses on big lots: Mangowood, Tanglewood Estates, Coral Reef Estates, the streets east of Old Cutler Road. Nearly all of them have passed through three or four owners, and somewhere in that history sits a carport turned into a bedroom, a patio enclosed and air conditioned, an electrical panel swapped on a Saturday. Structural, electrical, plumbing and mechanical work all require permits here, and so do roofing, windows and doors, fences, sheds, pools and standby generators. What was skipped decades ago does not disappear. It waits for an appraiser, an inspector, or a buyer.

Permits for those houses are filed with the Village of Palmetto Bay Building and Permitting Department on East Hibiscus Street, where the Building Official also administers the floodplain. Your contractor has to be registered on the Village's portal before an application can be submitted at all. County agencies still attach to a scope though the Village issues the permit: Miami-Dade's Board of Rules and Appeals oversees code administration countywide, environmental review reaches protected trees, the county health department handles septic systems, and Miami-Dade product control governs anything meant to survive a hurricane. And permits issued before the Village incorporated in 2002 live in the county's records, not the Village's.

PGX Builders Group has spent more than twenty years filing in South Florida, and every one of our 150-plus remodels and additions has been permitted and inspected. On compliance work that means we pull the record first and tell you what it says, coordinate the engineer, architect or surveyor the file needs, and put the corrective scope in writing before anyone touches the house. We do not expedite anything improperly, and we do not promise an outcome the code will not give you. What we do promise is one accountable team, a supervisor on site, and a permit that ends in a final inspection instead of a question.