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The Town does not run its own building department. It contracts the whole function to CAP Government, whose staff sit in Town Hall, and everything else follows from that: applications and plans are electronic, paper is not needed, and inspections are requested by email. On acreage where a job may involve the County before it involves the Town, that arrangement is a feature.

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Tell us the parcel and the plan

Send us the address and what you want to build or change. On an acre or more the first question is usually not the Town’s at all — it is whether the County has to look at it first.

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The address, and roughly the acreage

What is possible on a rural-estate parcel is a zoning question before it is a design question.

Whether you are on a well or a septic system

Those are Florida Department of Health and Broward County matters, and they run on their own timetable.

Whether it is an addition or a separate structure

A guest house, a barn and an addition are three different permits and three different zoning conversations.

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 parcel and to talk through what the work would involve. If it is urgent, call (754) 236-0675.

Completed outdoor kitchen, shown as a moving sequence of project photographs

The reality

The approvals that matter here usually happen somewhere else first.

Southwest Ranches is a rural-estate town by design, and the practical consequence is that a lot of what governs a project on an acre is not municipal. The Town states that Broward County environmental permitting approval, or Town zoning and engineering approval, is required prior to issuance of building permits. Most of the town is on private wells and onsite disposal systems, and those are the Department of Health and the County. So the sequence matters more than the paperwork: start the outside approvals early, and the building permit is the last step rather than the first obstacle.

  • 01

    The department is CAP Government

    The Town contracts building permit and inspection services out, with staff available in Town Hall.

  • 02

    Nothing is filed on paper

    Applications, plans, comments and approvals are all electronic through an online portal.

  • 03

    Inspections are requested by email

    Not by phone queue and not through a booking widget — the Town publishes an inspections address.

  • 04

    Outside approvals come first

    County environmental permitting, or Town zoning and engineering approval, is required prior to issuance.

  • 05

    The card has a ceiling

    Payments are taken by cash, check or credit card, with a maximum transaction of $5,000.

See a completed project

Compact white shaker kitchen with a stacked washer and dryer column, stainless range and microwave, and a green tiled backsplash
A laundry column built into the kitchen run of a converted guest house.

Elbaz project photograph

Project 01

A separate building, made properly habitable

Completed by Elbaz Construction in South Florida

Photographed on one completed Elbaz Construction guest-house conversion. It is not in Southwest Ranches — we show what we build and we say where it is. Every frame below is the same building.

Detached converted unit with light stucco walls and a dark fascia, seen across a lawn behind a row of newly planted columnar shrubs
From the lawn. The finished building seen across the rear garden.
Light stucco elevation of a converted unit behind young columnar planting and a timber walkway
The garden side. The same elevation with the planting established.
Exterior entry door to the converted unit beside a wall light, with a concrete path and hedge alongside
The entry side. The approach along the side of the building.
Interior entry with a glazed front door, white walls and wood-look plank flooring running through to the rooms beyond
Inside the door. The entry, with the rooms opening off it.
Open living area with wood-look plank flooring and a vaulted ceiling, looking through to a white kitchen at the far end
Living to kitchen. The main space looking towards the kitchen run.
Living area with a wall-mounted mini-split head, recessed lighting and a doorway through to the bathroom
The living space. Empty, with the split system in and the floor down.
Compact white shaker kitchen with a stacked washer and dryer column, stainless range and microwave, and a green tiled backsplash
Kitchen and laundry. The stacked laundry column built into the cabinetry run.
White shaker kitchen with stainless appliances and a green tiled backsplash, seen from the living area
From the living end. The whole kitchen in one view, with the bathroom door beyond.
Kitchen run with a window above the sink, black tapware, green tiled backsplash and a stacked laundry column beside the refrigerator
The window sink. The run under the window, with the appliances in.
Bedroom with pale walls, a wall-mounted mini-split, a window and mirrored sliding closet doors
The bedroom. Mirrored closet doors and the bathroom beyond.
Detail of the same frame: Detached converted unit with light stucco walls and a dark fascia, seen across a lawn behind a row of newly planted columnar shrubs
Detail of the same frame: Light stucco elevation of a converted unit behind young columnar planting and a timber walkway
Detail of the same frame: Exterior entry door to the converted unit beside a wall light, with a concrete path and hedge alongside
Detail of the same frame: Interior entry with a glazed front door, white walls and wood-look plank flooring running through to the rooms beyond
Detail of the same frame: Open living area with wood-look plank flooring and a vaulted ceiling, looking through to a white kitchen at the far end
Detail of the same frame: Living area with a wall-mounted mini-split head, recessed lighting and a doorway through to the bathroom
Detail of the same frame: Compact white shaker kitchen with a stacked washer and dryer column, stainless range and microwave, and a green tiled backsplash
Detail of the same frame: White shaker kitchen with stainless appliances and a green tiled backsplash, seen from the living area
Detail of the same frame: Kitchen run with a window above the sink, black tapware, green tiled backsplash and a stacked laundry column beside the refrigerator
Detail of the same frame: Bedroom with pale walls, a wall-mounted mini-split, a window and mirrored sliding closet doors
Detail

One building, one contract

Envelope, services, kitchen, bathroom and finishes under a single point of responsibility.

Services are the hard part

Water, waste, power and cooling all have to reach a structure that was never meant to have them.

A small plan has no slack

Every door swing and appliance clearance is drawn, because there is nowhere to absorb a mistake.

Finished to be lived in

Not a shell with a shower. A separate dwelling that behaves like one.

How it runs

Ten stages, and the three that start with the County

How Elbaz Construction runs a project on a Southwest Ranches parcel, from the first zoning question to a closed-out permit.

Finished terrace, shown as a moving sequence of project photographs

  1. Establish what the parcel allows

    Zoning district, setbacks and how the land is recorded. On acreage this is the question that decides whether a plan is worth drawing.

  2. Talk to Town zoning and engineering early

    The Town publishes contacts for both, and states their approval may be required prior to issuance of a building permit.

  3. Start County environmental permitting where it applies

    Broward County Environmental Engineering and Permitting approval is required before issuance, and it does not run on the Town’s clock.

  4. Leave wells and septic where they belong

    Those are Florida Department of Health and Broward County matters. We coordinate them; we do not represent them as Town rules.

  5. Design against what can be serviced

    A separate structure needs water, waste, power and cooling to reach it, and that route is a cost before it is a detail.

  6. Assemble the package for the portal

    The Broward County Uniform Building Permit Application and a Notice of Commencement, plus the forms for the specific permit type.

  7. Upload it, from wherever you are

    The Town states you will not need to come into Town Hall or stand in line: all application documents are uploaded to the portal from home or office.

  8. Take comments and approvals by email

    Application and plan comments and approvals come back with email notifications, and permit information is posted on the Town’s website.

  9. Request inspections by email

    The Town publishes an inspections address, and states inspection requests will be completed by email or in person.

  10. Close the permit out

    Every project has a specific list of required inspections, issued with the permit and available in the approved project documents. The last one is not optional.

Nothing above is a Southwest Ranches requirement unless it says the Town states it. Well and septic standards belong to the Florida Department of Health and Broward County, and where a rule is theirs we ask the Town rather than assuming a municipal version of it.

An outdoor kitchen is a building with the envelope left off. It has foundations, a frame with a wind load, gas, water, waste and power, and every one of those is a separate trade and a separate inspection. On a large parcel it is also usually a long way from the house, which turns the services run into the single biggest line in the price.

Project 02

Outdoor rooms, built like buildings

Completed by Elbaz Construction across South Florida

Photographed on several completed Elbaz Construction projects — outdoor kitchens, covered terraces and paved patios. None of them is in Southwest Ranches. They are here because on an acre the useful room is often the one with no walls.

Elbaz project photograph

Specification

What we specify on acreage, and why

Read each one three ways: what it is, why it suits a rural-estate parcel, and what drives its cost. Nothing here is a Southwest Ranches requirement unless the Town says so.

Compact white shaker kitchen with a stacked washer and dryer column, stainless range and microwave, and a green tiled backsplash

Stacked laundry columns

A washer and dryer stacked into a full-height cabinetry run rather than given a room.

Elbaz project photograph

Living area with a wall-mounted mini-split head, recessed lighting and a doorway through to the bathroom

Ductless split systems

A wall-mounted indoor unit paired with an outdoor condenser, with no ductwork at all.

Elbaz project photograph

Kitchen run with a window above the sink, black tapware, green tiled backsplash and a stacked laundry column beside the refrigerator

Compact kitchen runs

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

Elbaz project photograph

Outdoor kitchen counter with bar stools under a slatted timber ceiling, opening onto a waterway

Outdoor kitchen carcasses

A masonry or marine-grade frame with stone tops and appliances rated for outdoor use.

Elbaz project photograph

Covered outdoor structure part-built on open ground, showing the frame, the timber soffit lining and the ground still to be surfaced

Engineered covered structures

A designed frame on posts, tied to foundations sized for the wind load rather than the span.

Elbaz project photograph

Outdoor kitchen counter and bar stools under a deep covered roof, with boats moored beyond

Paved terraces on a drained base

Units bedded over a compacted, drained base and laid to a fall away from the structure.

Elbaz project photograph

Living with it

Long service runs are worth documenting

Where a line crosses an acre, a drawing of where it runs is worth more than the trench was.

Outdoor metal earns its finish

Fixings, hinges and appliance housings outside are a corrosion decision, not an aesthetic one.

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.

Keep the County approvals too

Where the County approved something before the Town did, that approval is part of the property’s file, not just the job’s.

Southwest Ranches

What the Town publishes, in order

Every item below is stated by the Town of Southwest Ranches on its own Building Permitting and Inspections page, read on 21 August 2026.

Detached converted unit with light stucco walls and a dark fascia, seen across a lawn behind a row of newly planted columnar shrubs

01

The building department is a contractor

The Town states that building permit and inspection services for the Town of Southwest Ranches are provided by CAP Government, Inc., with staff available in Town Hall.

Elbaz project photograph

Interior entry with a glazed front door, white walls and wood-look plank flooring running through to the rooms beyond

02

The counter closes for lunch

Office hours are Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, closed between 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm for lunch. There is also a published building department option on the Town’s main number.

Elbaz project photograph

White shaker kitchen with stainless appliances and a green tiled backsplash, seen from the living area

03

Paper is not needed

The Town and CAP receive, review and approve all building permit applications and plans in an electronic format through an online portal. The Town states paper applications and building plans will not be needed, and that you will not need to come into Town Hall or stand in line — all documents are uploaded from home or office.

Elbaz project photograph

Covered outdoor structure part-built on open ground, showing the frame, the timber soffit lining and the ground still to be surfaced

04

Inspections are requested by email

The Town publishes an inspections email address and states that inspection requests will be completed by email or in person. Each project has a specific list of required inspections, issued with the permit and available in the approved project documents.

Elbaz project photograph

Close view of the slatted timber soffit and recessed downlights on the underside of a covered outdoor structure

05

The card has a ceiling

Payments can be made during normal business hours by cash, check payable to the Town, or credit card, with a maximum transaction amount of $5,000.

Elbaz project photograph

Large-format paver terrace laid around a sunken spa beneath a thatched shade structure, with a rendered boundary wall behind

06

Someone else approves before the Town issues

Every package must include the Broward County Uniform Building Permit Application and a Notice of Commencement. The Town states that Broward County environmental permitting approval, or Town zoning and engineering approvals, are required prior to issuance of building permits.

Elbaz project photograph

Where the time actually goes

A schematic of a project on a Southwest Ranches parcel

How a Southwest Ranches project reaches a building permit Five stacked bands. Zoning and the parcel feed the outside approvals, which feed design and services, which feed the electronic package, which feeds inspections by email and closeout. The outside approvals run alongside every band. THE PARCEL AND ITS ZONING District, setbacks and how the land is recorded, before anything is drawn COUNTY AND TOWN APPROVALS Environmental permitting, or zoning and engineering, prior to issuance DESIGN AND THE SERVICES ROUTE Water, waste, power and cooling reaching a structure that had none THE ELECTRONIC PACKAGE County uniform application and notice of commencement, uploaded INSPECTIONS AND CLOSEOUT Requested by email against the list issued with the permit THE OUTSIDE APPROVALS Run alongside every band. County environmental, town zoning and engineering — and wells and septic belong elsewhere.

Illustrative only. Durations are deliberately absent: the Town publishes a process rather than a turnaround time, and the outside approvals do not run on its clock.

Answers

Southwest Ranches questions

The Town does, but the function is contracted. Southwest Ranches states that building permit and inspection services are provided by CAP Government, Inc., with staff available in Town Hall.

Verified

What clients wrote on Google.

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Google review

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Google review

I highly recommend them for home improvement. They renovated my master bathroom and a few upgrades for other guest bathrooms. They are very professional, courteous and transparent. They are great at communicating and finding ways to streamline the work. Sean has impeccable project management and customer relationship management skills. Very pleased with the work!

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Next step

Send us the parcel and the plan

Tell us where the property is and what you want to build or change. We will come back with what the parcel allows, which approvals start outside the Town, and what the Town will want uploaded.

We read it and come back

To arrange a look at the parcel and the service routes across it.

We start the outside approvals first

Because they do not run on the Town’s clock.

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
  • Everything filed electronically, nothing queued for at a counter
  • Permits closed out, with the documentation handed over

Finished terrace, 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 parcel and to talk through what the work would involve. If it is urgent, call (754) 236-0675.