Miami-Dade County
Demolition in Coconut Grove
City of Miami Building Department. Coconut Grove is a neighbourhood of Miami, not a municipality, so it runs on the City of Miami process.
Coconut Grove sits inside the City of Miami, so everything that applies to a city address applies here: the city's own portal and permit numbering, contractor-only filing, the shorter 08:00 to 18:00 construction day, the separate sewer cap sub-permit after issue, and the county's DERM review running in parallel.
What is different in practice is the tree canopy. The city's tree boundary survey requirement, covering every tree on the lot and in the right of way with the protection plan drawn onto the demolition drawings, is a formality in some neighbourhoods and the main design constraint here. It affects where a machine can stand, where material can be stockpiled and sometimes whether a structure can be reached at all from the direction that would be easiest.
That is worth pricing honestly at the walk-through rather than discovering on site. A protected tree between the structure and the only truck access can change the method entirely, and removing one without the separate approval is a more expensive problem than the demolition it was meant to simplify.
What is different here
Each line below is taken from a published requirement, not from a general description of the area. This is the part that moves your dates.
- 01Not a city. Permits come from City of Miami through iBuild, with folio numbers beginning 01, which is why this reads as a neighbourhood page inside the Miami cluster rather than a separate jurisdiction.
- 02Everything in the City of Miami process applies without variation: licensed contractor files, survey under 6 months old, DERM approval, tree boundary survey with right of way trees, sewer cap sub-permit after issuance, 8:00 to 18:00 Monday to Saturday working hours.
- 03The tree requirement bites harder here than the rule itself suggests, because the demolition plan has to carry protection for every tree on the lot and in the right of way.
Sources
Requirements change. Verify anything you intend to rely on with the issuing department before you plan around it.