Private acre, public record.

Most compliance calls out here start with a document nobody read until closing week. A title company runs the address, and the Town's file comes back with a permit still showing open, or a building on the survey the record has never heard of. The pattern repeats across Sunshine Ranches, Green Meadows and Country Estates: a pole barn finished into an office, a carport walled in as a bedroom, a generator on a new pad, a propane tank buried by whoever was cheapest that month. Code officers here work from complaints rather than patrols, so behind a fence none of it gets noticed for years.

Permits come from the Town of Southwest Ranches, whose building department at Town Hall on Griffin Road is staffed by CAP Government, and zoning review happens in the same building first. Filing is electronic, on the Broward County Uniform Building Permit Application, with a Notice of Commencement where one is required; county items like environmental review or an asbestos certificate move through Broward's ePermitsOneStop. Over all of it sits the county Board of Rules and Appeals, which you never file with directly: it maintains the amendments your plans examiner applies and certifies your inspector. All of Broward is High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so openings and roofing need approved products.

Compliance work starts with reading, not demolition. We ask the Town's portal what was ever pulled on the address, set it against a current survey and what is standing, and price the gap. Where the answer needs a sealed drawing or a structural evaluation, we bring in the engineer or surveyor and coordinate them; PGX is the licensed general contractor on the permit, not a substitute for those seals. Septic capacity is a health department question, not a guess. Inspections are met on site by the supervisor who ran the work. Twenty-plus years in South Florida, more than 150 permitted and inspected projects, and nothing sold as a shortcut.