Demolition in Broward County

The thing to understand about Broward is that the asbestos filing and the building permit are two separate queues at two separate offices, and the second one will not start until the first one has finished. The city or town issues the demolition permit, but it asks to see a Certificate of Submittal from the county's asbestos programme first, and that certificate is only issued once the county has the Statement of Responsibilities Regarding Asbestos, the scope of work or demolition plans, the state notice, the survey and the fees, and has approved them.

So the SRRA is the first thing filed on a Broward job, not a formality somewhere in the middle. It goes electronically through the county's own ePermits system, and county code requires it at least ten working days before anything starts. Anyone who has worked in Miami-Dade and expects DERM to be the counterpart here files with nobody and finds out at the building department counter.

The fee behaves differently from Miami-Dade's too. There is a flat $100 review fee per non-exempt project at a site, waived for owner-occupied residential of four or fewer dwelling units, public schools and county-owned buildings. On top of that, a project with regulated asbestos-containing material in it is invoiced on the quantity reported, so the number is not known until the survey is.

What is not on this page is how any individual Broward municipality runs its own building department, because that was not researched and a sentence that sounds local without being local is worth less than nothing. Ask about your specific address and you will get either the answer or an honest statement that we are checking it.