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Thirty jurisdictions, thirty sets of rules

South Florida does not have one building department. It has dozens, each with its own portal, its own local amendments, and its own reason your file is sitting still. Here is where we run and what each one does differently.

B-01Miami-Dade County
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City of Miami

The City of Miami runs its own building department, separate from Miami-Dade County, and it is the jurisdiction where the paperwork around who ma

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Miami-Dade County (Unincorporated)

Miami-Dade County's Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources issues building permits for all unincorporated areas, which is a very large s

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Miami Beach

Miami Beach is one of the most demanding permitting environments in Florida. Historic preservation review, flood elevation requirements, and a de

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Hialeah

Hialeah is one of Florida's largest cities and runs its own building department. A dense stock of older single-family homes and small industrial

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Coral Gables

Coral Gables enforces its architectural and historic standards more actively than any other Miami-Dade municipality. Aesthetic review is a real g

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Doral

Doral is one of the fastest-growing commercial markets in the county, with heavy warehouse, distribution, and office build-out activity alongside

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North Miami

North Miami mixes older single-family neighborhoods with commercial corridors and waterfront property, and carries a meaningful volume of legacy

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North Miami Beach

North Miami Beach runs its own building department and has been notably active on building safety and recertification following statewide changes

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Aventura

Aventura is dominated by high-rise condominium towers, which makes association approval and building-specific rules the practical gatekeeper on m

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Homestead

Homestead and the surrounding south county area combine newer subdivision development with agricultural and rural property that carries its own s

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Miami Gardens

Miami Gardens is a large residential city with substantial older single-family stock and an active code enforcement posture on unpermitted work a

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Cutler Bay

Cutler Bay is a newer municipality in south Miami-Dade with a housing stock largely rebuilt or heavily repaired after Hurricane Andrew, which sha

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Pinecrest

Pinecrest is a low-density, large-lot residential village with strong tree protection and a design-conscious review posture on new construction a

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Key Biscayne

Key Biscayne is a small island village with a high-value condominium and single-family stock, aggressive flood requirements, and limited construc

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South Miami

South Miami is a compact city with historic single-family neighborhoods and a walkable commercial core, with review attention on scale and neighb

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Sweetwater

Sweetwater is a small, dense city in west Miami-Dade with older residential stock and a meaningful volume of legacy unpermitted work.

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B-02Broward County
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Broward County

Broward County and its municipalities share ePermits OneStop, a centralized portal that lets a single submittal reach both the municipal building

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Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale runs LauderBuild for its online permitting, alongside participation in the countywide ePermits OneStop system. Heavy waterfront d

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Hollywood

Hollywood spans beachfront condominium towers, historic downtown, and large inland residential neighborhoods, which means the permitting picture

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Pembroke Pines

Pembroke Pines is one of Broward's largest cities, built largely as planned residential communities, which puts homeowner association approval al

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Miramar

Miramar combines newer master-planned residential development in the west with older established neighborhoods in the east, and a growing commerc

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Coral Springs

Coral Springs is a master-planned city with unusually strict community appearance standards that operate alongside the building permit process.

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Pompano Beach

Pompano Beach has been in an active redevelopment cycle, with substantial new construction along the beach and downtown alongside older inland re

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Davie

Davie retains an agricultural and equestrian character across much of the town, which produces land use and accessory structure questions that do

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Plantation

Plantation is an established residential city with mature tree canopy and strong landscape and tree protection standards alongside its building r

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Sunrise

Sunrise mixes large planned residential communities with significant commercial and entertainment district activity around Sawgrass.

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Weston

Weston is a master-planned city with among the most consistent architectural standards in Broward, enforced through both the city and community a

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Deerfield Beach

Deerfield Beach spans beachfront condominium property, older inland residential neighborhoods, and Intracoastal waterfront, each with a different

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Tamarac

Tamarac has a large stock of older residential and 55-plus community housing, which produces steady roofing, window, and renovation volume with r

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Lauderhill

Lauderhill has a dense stock of older single-family homes and condominium and garden apartment inventory, with an active posture on code complian

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