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Permitting & Compliance · Pompano Beach, FL

Make the paperwork match the house.

Permit applications, HVHZ product approvals, inspections carried through to a signed final, and the open or expired permits a previous owner left behind on a Pompano Beach property. Filed and supervised by a licensed general contractor, Lic. CGC1539072.

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Permitting & Compliance in Pompano Beach

Where a Pompano permit really gets decided.

Most permit trouble in Pompano Beach is inherited. A boat lift went in on a Garden Isles canal lot and nobody called for the inspection. A screened patio in Cypress Cove got glassed in and quietly became a family room. A unit off Briny Avenue has been gutted twice and only one of those jobs left a file behind. None of it matters until a buyer's title search or a lender's appraiser pulls the permit history on the address, and then it matters enormously, on a deadline somebody else chose for you.

Permits are issued by the City of Pompano Beach Development Services Department, through its Building Permitting and Inspections division at City Hall on West Atlantic Boulevard, and filed on the Broward County Uniform Building Permit Application. Above the city sits a countywide layer: the Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals publishes the county's amendments to the Florida Building Code, certifies the plans examiners and inspectors assigned to your job, hears appeals of their decisions and issues formal interpretations. Broward is in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so windows, doors and roofing need approved products with the anchor details attached.

Twenty-plus years in South Florida and more than 150 permitted, inspected remodels and additions leave a side effect: we have read a great deal of other people's paperwork. A compliance job starts with the record rather than the drawings, every permit ever pulled on the address, what was signed off and where it stopped. Then we open up whatever has to be seen, engage the engineer, architect or surveyor the file calls for instead of pretending to be one, and put the superintendent who ran the work in front of the inspector. Nobody here sells a shortcut.

Architectural floor plans laid out for a permit submittal — architectural rendering

Where we work in Pompano Beach

Hillsboro Shores Harbor Village Avalon Harbor Garden Isles Cypress Cove Snug Harbor Cypress Lakes Santa Barbara Shores Santa Barbara Estates Old Pompano Palm Aire Cypress Bend Briny Avenue

Elsewhere in Pompano Beach? Call us — if it's in Miami-Dade or Broward, we probably build there.

What's included

The files we open and the ones we close.

Half of this work begins as a plan. The other half begins as a problem somebody else created. Either way the record gets read before a price gets written.

01

Permits left open

Pulling the full permit history on the address, matching it against what is physically standing, then reviving, amending or re-inspecting until the city marks the file closed.

02

Work nobody filed

Garage bedrooms, enclosed patios, boat lifts and generators added without a permit: documented as built, engineered where the structure demands it, inspected against today's code.

03

Impact products, documented

Windows, doors and roof assemblies carried with a current Notice of Acceptance or Florida Product Approval, anchored the way that approval specifies rather than the customary way.

04

Inspections to a signed final

Rough through final booked in a sequence the building can actually deliver, with a PGX supervisor meeting each inspector so the last signature genuinely happens.

05

Safety inspection repairs

Spalling concrete, corroded rebar, railings and waterproofing that a milestone report or a structural integrity reserve study puts on a Pompano Beach association's list, permitted as one package.

Elevation drawings and plan set for a building permit — architectural rendering

How we work

A remodel is a promise. We keep it in writing.

20+
Years building in South Florida
150+
Remodels and additions delivered
100%
Permitted and inspected work
1
Team accountable from estimate to warranty

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.

01

Walk-through & estimate

We visit, measure, listen, and come back with a real scope and a real number — not a teaser.

1–2 weeks
02

Design & permits

Drawings, engineering where needed, product approvals, and the permit package — filed and tracked by us.

4–10 weeks
03

Construction

Scheduled trades, daily supervision, weekly updates with photos, and inspections we prepare for and attend in person.

Per scope
04

Closeout & warranty

Punch list cleared, permits closed, documents handed over, warranty in writing. Then we leave it spotless.

1–2 weeks

FAQ

Straight answers.

A title search turned up an open permit from a prior owner. What now?
Start with the record, not the wall. The city's permit history for the address shows what was pulled, which inspections were signed and exactly where the file stalled. After that it is a diagnosis: sometimes only a final inspection is missing, sometimes what got built does not match what was approved, and sometimes the permit sits under a contractor who dissolved his company a decade ago. All three are solvable. None is solvable in a week, which is why this call belongs on the day the title report lands.
What actually needs a permit on a Pompano Beach property?
More than owners expect. Structure, roofing, windows and doors, electrical, plumbing, gas and mechanical all do, and on the water so do docks, boat lifts, seawalls, pools and most driveways, with Broward County environmental licensing on top of the city permit for marine work. Paint, flooring over a sound slab and a like-for-like cabinet swap generally do not. The quiet ones are the costly ones: a garage turned into a bedroom, a patio enclosed, a panel upgraded.
Our building received a Notice of Required Inspection. Is that something PGX handles?
That notice comes from the building official under the building safety inspection program, and it calls for a written report from a Florida-licensed engineer or architect certifying the structure electrically and structurally safe for continued occupancy. Condominium and cooperative buildings of three habitable stories or more also carry Florida's milestone inspection, visual first and invasive only where deterioration turns up. We do not seal those reports. We engage the professional who does, then permit and build the repairs the report produces.
We already bought impact windows. Will they clear review here?
Only if the approval covers the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone and the design pressures calculated for those particular openings. Broward sits inside HVHZ alongside Miami-Dade, so every window, exterior door, shutter, garage door and roof system needs a current Notice of Acceptance or Florida Product Approval, called out on the submittal and installed with the anchors that approval specifies. Product that sails through review in Orlando gets rejected here. It is why we ask to see the order before anything ships.
What does it cost to clear unpermitted work, and how long does it take?
Both answers live behind the drywall. A permit missing only its final inspection is a small line item. A room framed over a patio slab with no engineering behind it, or a roof laid with products that were never approved, can mean taking it apart and rebuilding to current code. Fees are set by the city and scale with the value of the work. Think in weeks rather than days, and start ahead of the closing date. You get the number and the bad news in the same written scope.

Contact

Show us the letter you got

Send the address and whatever the city, the title company or your association mailed you. You leave with a written path to a closed permit, in English o en español.

Office
Miami, FL
Hours
Mon–Fri, 8:00–18:00
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