Permit Expediting in Orlando

What to know about permitting in Orlando

• City registration is required in addition to any county registration.
• Historic districts including Lake Eola Heights carry design review.
• Heavy hospitality and commercial permitting volume with substantial fire and accessibility review.
• Downtown high-rise work carries extended multi-agency review.

City or county?

This is the first question on every Orlando project and it is answered by the parcel, not the mailing address. A Orlando postal address can sit in unincorporated Orange County, and the two are reviewed by different departments with different requirements and different registration obligations.

We confirm jurisdiction from county property appraiser parcel records and the municipal boundary map before anything is prepared. It takes minutes and it prevents a rejection that costs a week.

Areas of Orlando we work in

We file across the whole city, including Lake Eola Heights, Thornton Park, College Park, Baldwin Park, Delaney Park, Audubon Park and the Milk District. If your parcel sits near a boundary we confirm the controlling jurisdiction from the property appraiser record before anything is prepared, because a Orlando mailing address does not always mean a Orlando permit.

What we permit most in Orlando

Restaurant and hospitality build-outs with heavy fire and health review, historic-district renovations, downtown mixed-use development, and a steady volume of owner-builder residential permitting.

Alongside that we handle the work every jurisdiction generates: expired and after-the-fact permits, code compliance cases, certificates of occupancy, revisions and resubmittals, contractor registration with the city, and driving permits to a closed status so they do not surface in a lien search years later.

How we work a Orlando file

1. Confirm the jurisdiction. Parcel record first, boundary map second, a call to the department third if the parcel sits near a line.
2. Check your standing before filing. City registration active, insurance and workers’ compensation certificates current with Orlando specifically, and the qualifier on record matching the license.
3. Review the package against the current checklist rather than the one that was current last year.
4. File, then actually track it — through every reviewing discipline, not just the building queue.
5. Turn comments around inside a week, answered on the drawings rather than in a letter alone.
6. Schedule inspections and close the permit out, and send you the confirmation that it is closed on the record.