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Changing a window here
is a lighting
application.

Juno Beach adopts Palm Beach County’s sea turtle rules by reference, and they reach further inland than almost anyone expects. Inside the protection zone, installing or replacing a window is not only a building permit — it needs a Sea Turtle Lighting Permit as well. And the zone is six hundred feet from the mean high-water line, which the Town says may include properties on the west side of Ocean Drive.

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Tell us the address and the glazing

Send us where the property is and what you want changed. The first thing we check is whether it sits inside the Sea Turtle Protection Zone, because that decides whether one permit becomes two.

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The address, and how far back from the beach

The zone runs six hundred feet landward of the mean high-water line, and the Town says it may include the west side of Ocean Drive.

Whether any glazing is changing

New or replacement windows and glass doors within line sight of the beach trigger a second application.

Whether any exterior lighting is changing

New exterior lighting and the replacement or modification of existing lighting each trigger it too.

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Completed studio dwelling, shown as a moving sequence of project photographs

The reality

"Facing the beach" is not the same as facing east.

The most expensive misunderstanding on this stretch of coast is a geometric one. People assume the sea turtle rules apply to the ocean-facing side of a building, so a window on the north or south elevation feels safe to change without a second thought. The Town says otherwise, in its own words: windows and glass doors within line sight of the beach include not only those on the east side of a building but will typically include those on the north and south sides as well. On a low-rise building set at an angle to the shore, that can be most of the glazing.

  • 01

    The zone is measured, not guessed

    Six hundred feet landward of the mean high-water line, and the Town will confirm whether a specific property is inside it.

  • 02

    Three separate triggers

    New exterior lighting; replacement or modification of existing lighting; and installation or replacement of windows with line sight of beach.

  • 03

    Every building type is covered

    Commercial, governmental and residential — including condominiums, townhouses, duplexes and single-family homes.

  • 04

    It is a County standard, adopted

    The Town’s code adopts Article 14, Chapter C of the Palm Beach County Unified Land Development Code by reference.

  • 05

    Two applications, filed together

    A Juno Beach building permit application and a Sea Turtle Lighting Permit application both have to be submitted.

See a completed project

Recessed shower niche lined with pale mosaic set into navy hexagonal wall tile, beside a brass handheld on a slide bar
A lit mosaic niche set into a navy hex-tiled shower.

Elbaz project photograph

Project 01

The private half of a guest house

Completed by Elbaz Construction in South Florida

Photographed on one completed Elbaz Construction guest-house conversion — the bedroom, powder room and bathroom. It is not in Juno Beach — we show what we build and we say where it is. Every frame below is the same building.

Bedroom with mirrored sliding closet doors standing open beside a doorway through to the bathroom
The bedroom. Mirrored closet doors and the bathroom beyond.
Bedroom looking through to a walk-in closet and the bathroom beyond, with wood-look plank flooring throughout
To the walk-in. The same room with the closet open and the hanging in.
Powder room with patterned blue toile wallpaper above a ribbed tile wainscot, a round mirror and brass tapware over a pedestal basin
The powder room. Toile wallpaper above a slatted dado, with a round mirror.
Pedestal basin with brass tapware below a round mirror, against ribbed tile and patterned wallpaper
Pedestal basin. The basin and brass tap against the papered wall.
Bathroom with a navy hexagonal tiled shower behind a framed glass screen, brass fittings, a recessed niche and a white vanity
The bathroom. A navy hex shower behind glass, vanity opposite.
White vanity with drawers and a lit mirror beside a framed glass shower screen over navy hexagonal tile
Vanity and screen. The washing side of the room with the glass panel.
Recessed shower niche lined with pale mosaic set into navy hexagonal wall tile, beside a brass handheld on a slide bar
Niche detail. The lit recess lined in mosaic, set into the hex tile.
Shower floor in banded stone mosaic meeting navy hexagonal wall tile at a linear drain
The shower floor. Mosaic laid to the drain, meeting the navy wall.
Brass shower riser, rain head and handheld against navy hexagonal wall tile
The riser. Brass rising against the hex, seen down the length of the enclosure.
Brass shower valve and handheld on a slide bar against navy hexagonal tile beside a mosaic-lined niche
The valve. Thermostatic control and hand shower in one brass set.
Detail of the same frame: Bedroom with mirrored sliding closet doors standing open beside a doorway through to the bathroom
Detail of the same frame: Bedroom looking through to a walk-in closet and the bathroom beyond, with wood-look plank flooring throughout
Detail of the same frame: Powder room with patterned blue toile wallpaper above a ribbed tile wainscot, a round mirror and brass tapware over a pedestal basin
Detail of the same frame: Pedestal basin with brass tapware below a round mirror, against ribbed tile and patterned wallpaper
Detail of the same frame: Bathroom with a navy hexagonal tiled shower behind a framed glass screen, brass fittings, a recessed niche and a white vanity
Detail of the same frame: White vanity with drawers and a lit mirror beside a framed glass shower screen over navy hexagonal tile
Detail of the same frame: Recessed shower niche lined with pale mosaic set into navy hexagonal wall tile, beside a brass handheld on a slide bar
Detail of the same frame: Shower floor in banded stone mosaic meeting navy hexagonal wall tile at a linear drain
Detail of the same frame: Brass shower riser, rain head and handheld against navy hexagonal wall tile
Detail of the same frame: Brass shower valve and handheld on a slide bar against navy hexagonal tile beside a mosaic-lined niche
Detail

One building, one contract

Services, joinery, tiling and finishes under a single point of responsibility.

Two wet rooms in a small footprint

A powder room and a full bathroom, both fed from one service route.

Brass throughout, deliberately

A single metal finish across taps, risers and rails is what makes a small scheme read as designed rather than assembled.

The tile does the work

A navy hex on the wet walls, a patterned floor in the powder room, and nothing else asking for attention.

How it runs

Ten stages, and the one that decides how many permits you need

How Elbaz Construction runs a remodel on a Juno Beach property, from the first question about the protection zone to a closed-out permit.

Finished interior, shown as a moving sequence of project photographs

  1. Establish whether the property is in the zone

    Six hundred feet landward of the mean high-water line. The Town publishes a Code Compliance number for exactly this question and we ask it rather than measuring on a map.

  2. Work out which elevations have line sight of the beach

    Not only east. The Town states that north and south elevations will typically be included, and that is a survey question, not an opinion.

  3. Decide the glazing before the layout

    If windows are changing, the lighting application shapes what can be specified, so it comes first rather than last.

  4. Prepare both applications together

    A Juno Beach Building Permit Application and a Sea Turtle Lighting Permit Application, submitted as a pair.

  5. Specify lighting to the County guidance

    The Town’s form points at the County’s beachfront lighting material and the state wildlife agency’s guidance, and applications are evaluated on possible impacts to sea turtles and their habitats.

  6. Register and file

    Through the Town’s systems, with permit fees payable online by card.

  7. Answer whatever comes back

    Two applications means two review threads, and they do not necessarily return together.

  8. Book inspections online

    The Town schedules inspections through its online platform rather than by phone queue.

  9. Keep the exterior lighting compliant through construction

    Temporary site lighting is still lighting, and the zone does not pause while a job is open.

  10. Close the permit out

    Final inspections and closeout, with the documentation handed over.

Nothing above is a Juno Beach requirement unless the Town publishes it, and the sea turtle standard is the County’s, adopted by the Town’s code rather than written by it. Whether a specific property is inside the zone is a question for the Town — contact Code Compliance to confirm rather than relying on a map.

A studio dwelling is a whole house compressed: kitchen, bathroom, sleeping and living inside one volume, with every service arriving from somewhere else on the site. The design problem is not style. It is that nothing can be moved to make room for anything else, so the sequence of decisions runs services first, openings second, and everything else afterwards.

Project 02

Small separate dwellings, finished properly

Completed by Elbaz Construction across South Florida

Photographed on two completed Elbaz Construction accessory dwellings. Neither is in Juno Beach. They are here because on small coastal lots the useful extra space is usually a separate building rather than an addition.

Elbaz project photograph

Specification

What we specify inside a protection zone, and why

Read each one three ways: what it is, why it suits a Juno Beach property, and what drives its cost. Nothing here is a Town requirement unless the Town publishes it.

Open-plan studio ADU with the kitchen at one end, a grey sectional, bed and a doorway to the bathroom, under a vaulted ceiling

Glazing chosen for two permits

Impact-rated units selected for the building code and for how much interior light they let out after dark.

Elbaz project photograph

Vaulted studio ADU ceiling with an exposed dark beam, a skylight and a wall-mounted mini-split head above the kitchen

Roof glazing and skylights

A fixed or opening rooflight set into the structure with a designed upstand and flashing.

Elbaz project photograph

Studio ADU kitchen with white shaker cabinets, a dark navy tiled backsplash, stainless refrigerator and a white range

Compact kitchen runs

A single-wall kitchen drawn to full appliance clearances rather than to a showroom layout.

Elbaz project photograph

Bathroom with a navy hexagonal tiled shower behind a framed glass screen, brass fittings, a recessed niche and a white vanity

Full-height wet-wall tiling

A single format run floor to ceiling in the wet area, set out from the drain rather than from a corner.

Elbaz project photograph

Brass shower valve and handheld on a slide bar against navy hexagonal tile beside a mosaic-lined niche

Concealed thermostatic valves

A valve set into blocking behind the finished wall, with the riser and hand shower fed from it.

Elbaz project photograph

Single-storey stucco ADU with a black steel entry canopy, black door, shuttered window and a paver patio

Shielded exterior lighting

Fittings that put light on the ground and nowhere else, mounted low and aimed down.

Elbaz project photograph

Living with it

Lighting compliance is not a one-off

Replacing a failed exterior fitting inside the zone is itself a trigger. Keep the specification with the house papers.

Salt reaches everything on this stretch

Ironmongery and fixings within reach of an opening earn their finish.

Silicone is a consumable

Wet-area joints are maintenance, not permanent. Plan to renew them.

Keep the closed-out permit

A closed permit and its documentation are what prove the work was done properly when the property is next sold.

Juno Beach

What the Town publishes, in order

Every item below is stated by the Town of Juno Beach on its own Sea Turtle Lighting Permit Application, read on 21 August 2026. The underlying standard is Palm Beach County’s, adopted by the Town’s code.

Bedroom with mirrored sliding closet doors standing open beside a doorway through to the bathroom

01

The Town adopts the County standard by reference

Section 34-1128 of the Juno Beach Code of Ordinances adopts, by reference, Article 14, Chapter C of the Palm Beach County Unified Land Development Code, which requires approval for all new building construction including the installation of new glass doors and windows, as well as new artificial lighting proposed within the Sea Turtle Protection Zone.

Elbaz project photograph

Powder room with patterned blue toile wallpaper above a ribbed tile wainscot, a round mirror and brass tapware over a pedestal basin

02

There are exactly three triggers

A Sea Turtle Lighting Permit application is required for the installation of new exterior lighting; the replacement or modification of existing exterior lighting; and the installation or replacement of windows with line sight of beach.

Elbaz project photograph

Single-storey stucco ADU with a black steel entry canopy, black door, shuttered window and a paver patio

03

The zone is six hundred feet, and it reaches inland

The Sea Turtle Protection Zone includes all properties within 600 feet landward of the mean high-water line, and the Town states this may include properties on the west side of Ocean Drive.

Elbaz project photograph

Vaulted studio ADU ceiling with an exposed dark beam, a skylight and a wall-mounted mini-split head above the kitchen

04

Line sight is not only the east elevation

The Town states that windows and glass doors within line sight of the beach include not only those on the east side of a building, but will typically include the windows and glass doors on the north and/or south side of the building.

Elbaz project photograph

ADU bathroom with patterned cement-look floor tile, subway-tiled walls and a walk-in shower

05

Every building type is named

When installing or replacing windows at any commercial, governmental or residential property — including condominiums, townhouses, duplexes or single-family homes — within the zone, a Juno Beach Building Permit Application must be submitted as well as a Sea Turtle Lighting Permit Application.

Elbaz project photograph

Studio ADU living area with a grey sectional, round woven side table and a low timber console, lit by a skylight

06

And the Town will tell you if you are in it

For assistance in determining whether a property is within the Sea Turtle Protection Zone, the Town publishes a Code Compliance telephone number. Applications are evaluated on possible impacts to sea turtles and their habitats, against County and state wildlife guidance the Town links to.

Elbaz project photograph

Where the time actually goes

A schematic of a remodel on a Juno Beach property

How a Juno Beach remodel reaches two permits instead of one Five stacked bands. Locating the property in the protection zone feeds the line-sight assessment, which feeds glazing and lighting specification, which feeds the paired applications, which feeds inspections and closeout. The protection zone runs alongside every band. IS THE PROPERTY IN THE ZONE? Six hundred feet landward of the mean high-water line, confirmed with the Town WHICH ELEVATIONS HAVE LINE SIGHT? Not only east — north and south are typically included GLAZING AND LIGHTING SPECIFICATION Chosen once for the building code and the lighting standard together TWO APPLICATIONS, FILED AS A PAIR A building permit application and a sea turtle lighting permit application INSPECTIONS AND CLOSEOUT Scheduled online; site lighting stays compliant while the job is open THE PROTECTION ZONE Runs alongside every band, and it does not stop at the beach. Six hundred feet inland, which may cross Ocean Drive.

Illustrative only. Review durations are deliberately absent: neither the Town nor the County publishes a turnaround time for these applications, and we will not invent one.

Answers

Juno Beach questions

Inside the Sea Turtle Protection Zone, yes. The Town states that when installing or replacing windows at any commercial, governmental or residential property within the zone, a Juno Beach Building Permit Application must be submitted as well as a Sea Turtle Lighting Permit Application.

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Next step

Send us the address and the glazing

Tell us where the property is and what you want changed. We will check the protection zone first, and come back with whether your job is one permit or two.

We read it and come back

To arrange a look at the property and its elevations.

We check the zone with the Town

Rather than measuring six hundred feet on a map and hoping.

You get a drawn scope

And a written specification to price against.

Or call (754) 236-0675

(754) 236-0675
  • Florida-licensed general contractor, licence No. CBC1265280
  • Building and lighting applications prepared as a pair
  • Permits closed out, with the documentation handed over

Finished interior, shown as a moving sequence of project photographs

Elbaz project photograph

Preferred contact method

We use your details only to respond to this enquiry. No lists, no resale.

Thanks — that came through.

Your details are with the Elbaz Construction team. We will call you back to arrange a look at the property and to talk through what the work would involve. If it is urgent, call (754) 236-0675.