Cutler Bay can search
back to 2010.
Your house is probably older.

Through the Town of Cutler Bay Building Division, which sits within Community Development at the Town Center on Caribbean Boulevard. The Division publishes a permit application together with a checklist of what has to accompany it, and it handles plan review, permit issuance, inspections and Certificates of Occupancy.

The Town states that permit searches "consist of permit records as of August 1, 2010". For information on permits before that date it directs you to contact the Building Department. That is a limit on the online search rather than a statement that nothing earlier exists.

Not in itself, and it is very common here — Cutler Bay incorporated in 2005. It does mean the searchable record will not tell you the whole history, so the sensible first step is to ask the Building Department directly about the earlier period before a scope is priced.

Yes, for the period the Town covers. It publishes an online permit and inspections service that it describes as available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, giving access to the status of permits, plans and inspections. It costs nothing to look before you engage anybody.

It has to be resolved, and it is much better found now than at review. An open permit does not lapse quietly; it sits against the property and tends to surface when a new application touches the same system. The Building Division is the authority on what closing it requires.

Cutler Bay’s Building Division assures compliance with the Florida Building Code for building construction activity in the Town. Whether a specific piece of work needs a permit is a question for the Division, and it is a short call rather than a guess. We will make it with you.

The Town publishes a Homeowner Survey Affidavit for surveys that are older than six months but do not exceed three years. Whether your survey is current, inside that window, or older than it decides which document your submittal needs, and it is worth checking before drawings are started.

Then the affidavit route does not apply as published, and a current survey becomes a lead time on the project rather than a formality. Confirm the position with the Building Division — that is exactly the kind of thing that changes.

The Division publishes a Contractor Registration form and registration is a precondition to working in Cutler Bay. It is our responsibility, not yours, but you are entitled to see that it is in place before a schedule is agreed.

It is the Division’s certification that a completed building or a completed change may be occupied. Whether a particular scope ends in one depends on what the work is; a whole-house or addition project usually does, a window replacement does not.

A minimum of 24 hours for all inspections, as published by the Building Division. That is the floor. On a job running several trades it is the single rule that most shapes the programme.

The Town states that requests submitted after 3:00 PM are scheduled two business days out rather than the next day. In practice that makes three o’clock a real deadline rather than an administrative one.

The Town publishes an inspection request route by email and an inspection hotline, and an instructional guide for online services registration and inspection requests. On our projects we make the request; you should still know it exists.

The work is corrected and re-called, with the notice period running again from the new request. That is why we call an inspection when the work is genuinely ready rather than when the trade has left the site.

That is answered by the current FEMA mapping and by the Town, not by a contractor and not by this page. Where it matters to a scope we establish it in writing before design rather than assuming it from the street.

That depends entirely on whether your property is governed by an association, which is a matter of the property’s own documents rather than of Town policy. Where one applies, its review is opened at the scope stage and run alongside the Town’s.

Miami-Dade sits inside it, so glazing, doors and other envelope products are specified with approvals for that zone and installed to a published detail. The approval and the anchorage are both part of the review.

It is a common situation and it is workable, but it has to be dealt with rather than built over. The Building Division decides what is required; our part is to establish the position early and to plan the project around the answer.

Not from this page and not from the outside. The Town’s online service covers the period from 1 August 2010 and the Building Department covers what came before. We will look with you and we will tell you plainly what we find.

The address, a description of what you want to do, and anything you already hold — a survey, previous drawings, association documents if the property is in an association. That is enough for a useful first conversation.

Yes. Elbaz Construction is a licensed general contractor, licence CBC1265280, licensed, bonded and insured, so several permitted scopes on one property can run under a single contract.

Yes. We prepare the submittal against the Division’s published checklist, file it, answer the review, and run the inspections. What we will not do is promise an outcome or a duration that is the Town’s to decide.

Financing options are available — ask and we will explain what applies to your project.