HOA approval is not a permit.

Weston is too young for the century-old mysteries that haunt older Broward addresses, and that lulls people. The houses here date from the mid-1980s through the 2000s, so the original paperwork is usually clean and the trouble arrived afterward. Roofs replaced across Emerald Estates and Country Isles following the 2005 hurricane season. Accordion shutters and impact glass swapped into openings in The Ridges. Pool cages, summer kitchens, paver driveways, water heaters and standby generators changed out by whoever was available that month. Second-generation work on a first-generation house is where the Weston record goes quiet.

Filing is a City of Weston matter. The Building Code and Permitting Services Department reviews and issues, submittals go in electronically and digitally signed and sealed, and whoever pulls the permit owns it until it closes. Above the city sits the county's code administration. The Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals adopts the county's amendments to the Florida Building Code, certifies the plans examiners and inspectors who will read your file, hears appeals of a code official's decision, and issues formal interpretations when a section is genuinely disputed. Broward is High-Velocity Hurricane Zone territory, so glass, doors and roofing carry HVHZ product approvals.

Every permit we file carries our license number, CGC1539072, which is what separates a general contractor from a filing service: the signature and the accountability arrive together. We read the address history before promising anything, engage the engineer, architect or surveyor a complete submittal genuinely requires, clear plan review comments in one round rather than three, and put a supervisor on site when the inspector arrives instead of a note on the door. More than twenty years building in South Florida, more than 150 remodels and additions, all of it permitted and inspected. A Weston job ends when the city's record for your address does.