Permits pulled before anything gets built.

Permit calls in Parkland split cleanly in two. Half are planning real work and want the file opened before anything gets built. The other half already have a problem. Most of the housing here went up from the mid-nineties on, so the production homes in Cypress Head, Parkland Isles and Heron Bay are on their second or third owner by now, carrying two decades of small jobs nobody filed. A re-roof with no final inspection. A screen enclosure rebuilt after a storm. A garage converted to a gym. Out on the acreage, a barn that simply appeared.

Parkland issues its own permits. Applications, drawings and inspection requests go through the Building Department inside Development Services at City Hall on University Drive, filed through the city's online permitting portal. Broward then adds the county to the picture: its Board of Rules and Appeals maintains the local amendments layered onto the Florida Building Code, certifies the plans examiner who reads your set and the inspectors who sign it off, and issues the formal interpretations that end arguments. Every opening and roof assembly needs documentation valid in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. Taking down a tree needs its own permit.

PGX Builders Group holds the general contractor's license, CGC1539072, so the name on the application is the name that answers for the work. We are not a permit expediting service. Where a submittal needs an architect, an engineer or a surveyor, we retain one and coordinate the set. Review comments get answered once and completely, because a second and third round costs weeks. A supervisor meets the inspector on site. In twenty-plus years here and 150-plus remodels and additions, all permitted and inspected, the expensive problems we have watched owners inherit were rarely structural. They were filing failures, and they sat quietly until someone ran a title search.