Village of Biscayne Park

A city address is usually permitted by the city, not the county — but not always, and some authorities keep building and hand electrical to someone else. Getting this wrong costs the whole submittal, because every requirement below belongs to whoever actually holds jurisdiction. Check the overlays in the same pass: an HOA, a historic district, a windstorm certification or a system-size cap can reshape the design, and all of them are cheaper to find now than after the array is laid out.

• Is this authority the AHJ for residential solar at this address? Yes. The Village of Biscayne Park is the AHJ for building and electrical permitting and inspection of residential rooftop PV at addresses inside the Village. The building department is the Village's, but it is STAFFED UNDER CONTRACT BY CAP GOVERNMENT (a Bureau Veritas company): the Village's own staff directory annotates 'Pedro Martinez (CAP) Building Official', 'Miguel Nunez (CAP) Building Official' and 'Dina Escobar (CAP) Building Coordinator'; Resolution 2025-61 is titled 'Approving Renewal Term with CAP Government Building Permitting'; the FY2027 Building Fund carries object code 31.000 'PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CAP GOVT' (Inspectors $104,800, Clerical-Building $92,110, Clerical-Code $78,000); the permit portal is cap.geocivix.com; and every page of the Village's Master Fee Schedule is footed 'BV_C2_Internal', a Bureau Veritas document-classification marking. Several limbs are NOT the Village's: contractor competency (Miami-Dade Ch. 10), historic COAs (Miami-Dade Ch. 16A), tree removal (Miami-Dade Sec. 24-49), landscaping (Miami-Dade Ch. 18A), product approval/NOA (Miami-Dade Sec. 8-40), and fire (Miami-Dade Fire Rescue). 94% · village staff directory
• What does this authority permit itself, and what does it delegate? Both, and they are separate permits. The Village issues BUILDING and ELECTRICAL permits and performs both plan review and inspections (through CAP Government staff). The FY2027 budget carries distinct revenue accounts 322.000 BUILDING PERMITS and 322.100 ELECTRIC PERMITS. Nothing is delegated to Miami-Dade County for a house: County Sec. 14-40 excludes 'one- and two-family residential dwellings' from Chief Fire Official plan review, and County Ch. 8 Art. II leaves inspection to the municipal building official. 92% · adopted budget
• Is a permit required for a residential rooftop PV system? Yes. LDC Sec. 16.3.1 makes it unlawful to 'install or alter any equipment for which provision is made or the installation of which is regulated by the Florida Building Code' without a permit. The only exception is Sec. 16.3.2: general maintenance or repairs not changing occupancy and worth no more than $100 in labour and material - one of the lowest permit-exemption floors in the survey, and far below any PV job. The Village publishes a dedicated 'Solar Panel Permit Checklist' and prices solar on its Master Fee Schedule, so the permit is not merely implied. 96% · codified ordinance (LDC Sec. 16.3)
• Is there a separate electrical permit, or is it combined? Separate. The Village's Solar Panel Permit Checklist states in terms: 'Building & Electrical Permit applications must be submitted for this type of project.' Both are priced: BUILDING 'Solar Pannels, +electrical fee $500 + review fees' and, under ELECTRICAL, a 'Solar Photovoltaic' block with 'Roof Mounted per system $1,200 +review fees'. LDC Sec. 16.2.2 treats the building permit and the electrical permit as distinct development permits, and the permit application's own certification says 'a separate permit must be secured for ELECTRICAL WORK'. 96% · published checklist
• Is a HOA or architectural approval required first? HOA/association approval: NO. Village architectural approval: YES, and it is the single most consequential finding on this authority. (a) NO ASSOCIATION GATE. Searching 'association' across 1.52 MB of codified Village text returns 9 hits and every one is definitional boilerplate ('persons, firms, associations, corporations') or the Florida Association of Code Enforcement. 'homeowners association' = 0, 'condo' = 0, '163.04' = 0. Biscayne Park is a 1933 plat of detached single-family lots with no association structure. (One conditional mention of a 'Condo/Homeowners Association Approval Letter (if applicable)' appears in the CAP submittal document - which is the El Portal-derived text.) (b) THE VILLAGE ARCHITECTURAL GATE IS LIVE AND IT CATCHES ROOFTOP PV. Three limbs, closed separately. APPLICABILITY: LDC Sec. 16.3.4 - 'ALL applications for building permits must be accompanied by a complete set of plans and specifications TO BE APPROVED BY THE PLANNING BOARD.' That is about as broad as an applicability clause gets and there is no exemption list. BOARD: LDC Sec. 13.2.1 - the Planning and Design Review Board (renamed from 'Planning Board' by Ord. 2022-11, 4 Oct 2022) shall 'review projects for architectural and design elements'; it meets the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month at 6:30 PM. PRACTICE: the Village's own Solar Panel Permit Checklist states 'Your permit application must be presented in front of the P&Z Advisory Board for PRE-APPROVAL of the overall project. Once it is approved, it will move forward with the permitting process.' And the board's agenda of 17 October 2022 carries a standing item '5. BUILDING PERMITS' listing FOUR separate residential rooftop solar-panel items by address alongside driveways, paint, fences, pools and re-roofs - with a fifth solar item sitting in '4. OLD BUSINESS', i.e. carried over from an earlier meeting. SUBSTANTIVE STANDARD: LDC Sec. 10.3.1 - buildings 'shall be of an architectural style, character and appearance, including exterior color, that will HARMONIZE AND BLEND IN with the other buildings in the area.' There is no dollar ladder and no percentage ladder; the gate is universal. FEE: $50 Planning Board review. *** A TRAP TO READ CAREFULLY: LDC Sec. 10.3.2(c) says 'No air conditioning or OTHER DUCT WORK, nor the screening enclosing the same, shall be visible on any roof.' Follow the operative noun - a PV array is neither air conditioning nor duct work, so 10.3.2(c) does not reach it. But it sits inside the very architectural-design section the board applies, and a reviewer could read it across by analogy and be wrong. 95% · published checklist + codified ordinance + board agenda
• Is there a historic-district review? Historic review exists, it is the COUNTY'S, and it contains exactly one address in the Village - which is not a house. (a) JURISDICTION. Biscayne Park has NO municipal historic-preservation ordinance. LDC Sec. 3.5.1 instead incorporates the county's by reference: 'the Metropolitan Dade County Historic Preservation Ordinance is hereby incorporated by reference into this Code.' Miami-Dade Code Sec. 16A-3.1(a): municipalities that do not adopt their own ordinance 'shall be governed by this Chapter.' The County's July 2025 Historic Resource Guide names the TEN that have opted out - Coral Gables, Hialeah, Homestead, Miami, Miami Beach, Miami Shores, Miami Springs, Opa-locka, South Miami, Sunny Isles Beach - and Biscayne Park is not among them. (b) TRIGGER. LDC Sec. 3.5.2: 'No building permit for alteration, restoration or renovation will be issued by the village for a building or structure which is designated by the Dade County Historic Preservation Board prior to the approval of a certificate of appropriateness.' County Sec. 16A-11(5)(a)(vii) says the same at county level. (c) SOLAR IS NAMED - IN THE GUIDELINES, NOT THE CODE. 'solar' = 0 in the whole of County Ch. 16A. The routing lives in 'Resilient Rehab: A Guide for Historic Buildings in Miami-Dade County', adopted by the BCC on 1 Feb 2022 by Resolution R-115-22. Its matrix 'Administrative Approval vs. Approval by Board Hearing' (document p.259 / PDF p.266) routes 'Exterior mounted technology - solar, screens, satellite cellular ON FACADE OR VISIBLE FROM RIGHT-OF-WAY' to a SPECIAL COA (quasi-judicial board hearing) and 'ON OTHER ELEVATIONS' to a REGULAR COA (staff, decided within 10 days, 30-day appeal). (d) WHAT IS ACTUALLY DESIGNATED HERE. 'Biscayne Park' occurs exactly twice in the 355 KB text layer of the County's July 2025 master list: once in the roster of 34 municipalities and once in the designation table - 'Biscayne Park Village Hall, 640 NE 114th St., Biscayne Park, designated 1/27/1983, Not listed (NR)'. That is the 1933 WPA Log Cabin, a municipal building (and, incidentally, where the Planning & Design Review Board meets). There is NO historic district and NO designated private residence. So for a house in Biscayne Park the county historic gate is live in principle and empty in practice. TWO FURTHER Ch. 16A FEATURES WORTH KNOWING: Sec. 16A-10(5)(i) imposes a MORATORIUM the moment staff file a designation report - no alteration 'until such time as final administrative action ... is completed' - so a job can be frozen before any designation is final; and Sec. 16A-11(5)(a)(x) gives a 60-day deemed-approved default. 93% · county master list + county code + adopted guidelines
• Is a wind or windstorm certification required? No separate windstorm certification, but wind design is documented on the drawings and the Village is in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. Miami-Dade Sec. 8-10(a) requires 'Design pressures for wind' on exterior elevations and sections, and on the framing plan 'roof mounted equipment ... Pressures for wind design. Loads and load transfer calculations required by the Code' plus 'Material: Roofing and sheathing material (INCLUDING PRODUCT APPROVAL NUMBER)'. The Village publishes a 'WINDOWS - WIND LOAD TABLE' but nothing PV-specific, and no design wind speed in mph appears in its codified text. WHICH APPROVAL A PV SYSTEM NEEDS IS A PRODUCT-CLASS TEST, NOT A JURISDICTION TEST: County Sec. 8-40 limits the high-wind-zone (NOA) route to envelope products - verbatim, 'limited to windows, exterior glazing, wall cladding, ROOFING, exterior doors, skylights, glass block, siding and shutters'. Racking, modules, inverters and disconnects are not in that list, so rack-mounted PV on an existing roof runs on FLORIDA PRODUCT APPROVAL under F.S. 553.842. An INTEGRATED PV ROOF is roofing, is inside the Sec. 8-40 list, and does need an NOA. 88% · county code (Sec. 8-40, Sec. 8-10)
• Is a Specific Use Permit or Council approval ever required? No Special Use Permit and no Village Commission approval for a rooftop PV system - but a PLANNING AND DESIGN REVIEW BOARD approval is required (see q24), which is a public board hearing rather than a staff sign-off. The Commission's role is appellate: LDC Sec. 13.6 provides appeals, and Sec. 13.4 routes variances through the board to the Commission. A variance application form exists ('VARIANCE - 4 POINT APPLICATION'). No conditional-use or special-exception mechanism attaches to solar anywhere in the codified text ('solar' = 0). 88% · codified ordinance (LDC Ch. 13)
• Is there a system-size cap on residential generation? No local cap. 'solar' and 'photovoltaic' both return 0 across 1.52 MB of codified Village text (controls: building 449, permit 322, zoning 37, electrical 15; fabricated zzqqxvv 0), so the Village imposes no kW or area limit. The operative caps are the utility's: FPL Tier 1 is <=10 kW AC inverter rating (Tier 2 >10-100 kW, Tier 3 >100 kW-2 MW), and Electric Service Standards XIII.A.5 states 'Customer generation is limited to 90 PERCENT OF THE FPL DISTRIBUTION SERVICE RATING (Transformer)'. A DIMENSIONAL LIMIT THAT DOES REACH A ROOFTOP ARRAY: LDC Sec. 11.8.1 - 'Towers, aerials, tanks and OTHER SUPERIMPOSED STRUCTURES upon any building shall not exceed eight (8) feet in height.' A rooftop array is naturally read as an 'other superimposed structure', giving an 8 ft ceiling above the roof - generous, and not a practical bar. Separately LDC Table A caps building height at 2 stories / 28 feet measured from Base Flood Elevation plus 1 foot. 86% · codified ordinance (absence) + utility standard

Several authorities require the electrical permit to be pulled by a licensed electrician, or require the contractor to be registered with them BEFORE applying. Registration is not same-day. This is second on the list rather than fourth because it is the step most likely to stop the job before the drawings matter.

• Who is allowed to pull the electrical permit? A contractor holding a Miami-Dade County Certificate of Competency or a Florida state certificate, registered with the Village, signing the application as qualifier - or the homeowner as an owner-builder under F.S. 489.103(7). LDC Sec. 16.19.1: 'The term "contractor" applies to those construction trades regulated pursuant to chapter 10 of the Miami-Dade County Code.' Sec. 16.19.2(2): 'All building permits must be signed by the contractor or qualifier for the contractor and be notarized.' So competency licensing is COUNTY while permitting is VILLAGE - a licensing/permitting split, not a delegation. 92% · codified ordinance (LDC Sec. 16.19)
• Must the contractor be registered with this authority before applying? Yes - annual registration, in person, before applying. LDC Sec. 16.19.2: 'All contractors performing work within the municipal boundaries of the village, or who have made application for building permits from the village, shall be required to register annually with the village. All such contractors shall register with the building division PRIOR TO application for a building permit ... Such contractor MUST PERSONALLY APPEAR at the building division for the purpose of registration.' Required items: current certificate of competency; current liability AND workers' compensation certificates of insurance addressed to the Village; both state and Miami-Dade registration if county-licensed (or a current state certificate); and a current occupational licence from the area of primary business plus a municipal one if county-licensed. The registration FEE is disapplied where F.S. 205.065 preempts it. A 'Change of Contractor' form exists and costs $75 per discipline after issuance. 95% · codified ordinance (LDC Sec. 16.19.2)
• Is a homeowner permitted to self-install and self-permit? Yes. The Village publishes an 'Owner Builder Disclosure Statement' invoking F.S. 489.103(7) and the Solar Panel Permit Checklist says 'If applying as owner/builder you must provide a completed Owner/Builder Affidavit'. The form requires the owner to initial each paragraph and states 'I further understand that I as the owner MUST APPEAR IN PERSON to complete all applications'. Caveat: the form is stale - it prints the old $25,000 commercial ceiling with a hand-added parenthetical '(The new form states 75,000)'. 92% · published form

Almost everywhere wants a site plan, a one-line or three-line electrical diagram, equipment cut sheets with listings, and a structural attachment detail. Build it against the published checklist rather than the last jurisdiction you worked in — the checklist is what the reviewer marks against.

• What documents make up a complete submittal? Per the Village's Solar Panel Permit Checklist: (1) building permit application 'completed, signed, and NOTARIZED by the property owner and contractor/qualifier and sub-contractor's' (Owner/Builder Affidavit instead if self-permitting); (2) BOTH a Building and an Electrical permit application; (3) 'one set of drawings per specialty in one multi-page file' - engineering plans 'MUST be digitally signed and sealed', contractor-drawn sketches 'signed and notarized by the contractor'; (4) presentation to the Planning & Design Review Board for pre-approval; then (5) plan review by trade reviewers with the Building Official as final approval. The permit application adds a notarised COST AFFIDAVIT breaking out Building / Roofing / Windows-Doors / Railings / Electrical / Mechanical / Plumbing / Other. A recorded Notice of Commencement must be posted before the first inspection. Miami-Dade Sec. 8-10(a) supplies the drawing content the Village does not itself specify (site plan with electrical service, wind design pressures, roof-mounted equipment on the framing plan, product approval number, electrical riser naming disconnect switches, NEC load calculation). 93% · published checklist
• How many copies, and in what format? Electronic PDF through the CAP portal: 'Upload each set of plans as a complete multi-page pdf file. Do not upload compressed sets of files.' One multi-page PDF per discipline, named ARCHITECTURAL / STRUCTURAL / MECHANICAL / PLUMBING / ELECTRICAL etc.; product approvals as one multi-page PDF; security settings unrestricted so reviewers can mark up; no Adobe Portfolio, no zip. Engineer/architect/surveyor PDFs need 'a valid digital signature with third party validation public key' (Rules 5J-17.062, 61G1, 61G15), one signature on the first page but the licence image and date on every sheet. Corrections go back as a COMPLETE revised set over the rejected one. The solar checklist adds: 'For older paper applications, two sets are required.' 88% · published instructions
• Is a site plan required, and what must it show? Yes, but the content specification is the County's, not the Village's. Miami-Dade Code Sec. 8-10(a) applies to every permit in the county and requires a site plan showing utilities '(Water Service, meter, sanitary sewer or septic tank, ELECTRICAL)', setbacks, lowest finished floor elevation and 'Equipment (pool, a/c, and similar)'. The Village adds a lot-coverage dimension: LDC Table A caps lot coverage at 50% and it publishes a 'Lot Coverage Calculations Form (NOT FOR DRIVEWAYS)'; a ground mount would engage that, a rooftop array would not. The Village publishes a 'Residential Setbacks' handout and a Zoning Map. No PV-specific site plan requirement is published by the Village. 82% · county code (Sec. 8-10)
• Is a one-line / three-line diagram required? Yes, by description rather than by name. Miami-Dade Sec. 8-10(a) requires under Electrical: 'Schedules/Riser: Panel size, all circuits with use, load, wire, breaker and conduit size indicated. Diagram with size of service, meter, ground, DISCONNECT SWITCHES, feeders, and panels.' That is a one-line/riser diagram in substance. The Village's own instructions require a separate ELECTRICAL discipline PDF. FPL separately requires meter numbers on the Single Line Diagram and may require a three-line for some installations. 85% · county code (Sec. 8-10)
• Are string and conductor calculations required? Yes. Miami-Dade Sec. 8-10(a) requires 'Calculation: Electrical. Load calculation per N.E.C.' as part of the construction documents for every permit. No Village instrument requires string or conductor calculations specifically, and none was found in 1.52 MB of codified Village text or 421 KB of Village site text. 82% · county code (Sec. 8-10)
• Is a structural PE stamp required, and at what threshold? No published dollar threshold. The Village's mechanism is a WORK-TYPE trigger priced by the hour, not a value ladder: the Master Fee Schedule (amended June 2026) carries 'Structural engineer review (100% of engineer's fee to the Village. Standard fee shown.) $130/hour' and 'Truss plans, product approval and shop drawing review submitted after permit issued $130/hour'. The Solar Panel Permit Checklist requires that 'engineering plans MUST be digitally signed and sealed'. A 'Special Inspector Form' is also published. So a PV job with an engineered attachment detail carries an open-ended outside-PE review charge that no fee guide caps - the same shape found at Surfside ($100/hr) at a higher rate. Searched for a dollar ladder: no '$10,000', '$25,000' or percentage seal trigger exists in the Village code or on the fee schedule. 84% · fee schedule
• Is an electrical PE stamp required, and at what threshold? No local electrical PE threshold. Nothing in the Village's codified code (anchored \bNEC\b = 0, 'electrical' = 15 hits, none a stamp rule) or on its fee schedule sets one. The governing exemption is the state one, F.S. 471.003(2)(h), which exempts electrical work below the statutory value/ampacity trigger. The Village's practical hook is instead the checklist rule that any engineering plans submitted be digitally signed and sealed. 70% · codified ordinance (absence) + state statute

Most authorities now take the whole application through a portal, and several states cap or constrain what a residential solar permit may cost. Check whether plan check is billed separately before you quote the job.

• Which permit portal does this authority use? CAP Plan Review Portal at https://cap.geocivix.com/secure/ (GeoCivix, formerly IDTPlans; operated by CAP Government). The Village's Apply for a Permit page: 'Biscayne Park utilizes the CAP Plan Review Portal for building permits and GoGov for other registrations and licenses.' Building permits moved to it on 1 November 2024, replacing OpenGov. Code-compliance items (garage sale, landlord registration, short-term rental, media production) run on a separate GovOutreach/GoGov system at app.govoutreach.com/biscayneparkvlgfl. *** A DOCUMENT-PROVENANCE WARNING: the Village's published 'CAP Permit Submittal Procedure' PDF is mostly ANOTHER MUNICIPALITY'S. Its step 7 instructs the applicant to 'select Village of El Portal from Jurisdiction pull-down menu'; step 13 says select 'FBC2017' as the Building Code; it points at the retired cap.idtplans.com domain and is footed 'Updated: 08/26/2020' on a page announcing a November 2024 change. 'Biscayne Park' occurs ZERO times in that PDF and 'El Portal' once. Only the first-page announcement and the final naming-convention appendix are Biscayne Park's. 93% · department page
• Can the whole application be completed online? No. Submission is online but money and collection are not. The Solar Panel Permit Checklist: 'Once the permit application is approved, it takes 1-2 business days to be invoiced then the Building Coordinator will contact the contact person to PAY AND PICK UP the permit. Payment methods accepted are, cash, checks, credit/debit card, (there is a 2.29% credit/debit card transaction fee ...). PAYMENTS ARE TO BE MADE IN PERSON DURING OFFICE HOURS AT THE VILLAGE HALL.' Two further in-person steps bracket the job: contractor registration requires the qualifier to 'personally appear at the building division', and an owner-builder 'must appear in person to complete all applications'. The application itself must be notarised by both owner and qualifier. And the project must be presented to the Planning & Design Review Board. Village Hall public hours are Mon-Thu 9-5 (closed 1-2) and Fri 9-12. 94% · published checklist
• What does a residential solar permit cost? About $1,700 in base permit fees before review fees and surcharges - among the highest residential solar permit costs found in this survey. Master Fee Schedule, amended June 2026 (adopted by the Commission 18 June 2026): BUILDING - 'Solar Pannels, +electrical fee $500 +review fees'; ELECTRICAL, under a 'Solar Photovoltaic' sub-heading - 'Roof Mounted per system $1,200 +review fees' (Ground Mounted per system also $1,200). On top: Permit/Plan Review Fee $95/hr, minimum 1 hr PER TRADE (two trades = $190 minimum); Zoning Plan Review $125/hr; Flood Plan Review $110/hr (and 92.8% of the Village's land is in an SFHA - see q25/flood); Planning Board review $50; Administrative fee $40; Dade County surcharge $0.60 per $1,000 of construction; Training and Education 1% of base permit fee; DBPR 1% (min $2); BCAIB 1.5% (min $2); Technology Fee 2.5% of base permit fee. An up-front fee of '$130 OR 0.33% of permit fee' is taken at application, credited to the permit, non-refundable. Card payments add a 2.29% transaction fee. Realistic all-in: roughly $2,050-$2,350. NOTE A LAPSED INCENTIVE: Resolution 2020-44 (1 Sep 2020) waived Village building permit fees for renewable energy installations - but only 'for a period of one (1) year, subject to renewal by further resolution'. No renewing resolution was found in the Village's 1,825-file published document corpus, and the June 2026 schedule prices solar at full rate, so the waiver has lapsed. 93% · fee schedule
• How is the fee calculated? Flat per-system for the solar lines themselves ($500 building, $1,200 per PV system electrical), plus HOURLY review fees ($95/hr per trade, $125/hr zoning, $110/hr flood, $130/hr structural engineer) and PERCENTAGE surcharges on the base permit fee (1% training, 1% DBPR, 1.5% BCAIB, 2.5% technology) and per-$1,000 of construction value ($0.60 county). So it is a hybrid: flat + hourly + percentage, with no valuation ladder and no per-kW or per-panel term. 93% · fee schedule
• Is there a separate plan-check fee? Yes, and it is hourly and per-trade. 'Permit / Plan Review Fee (for initial review and one (1) subsequent review) per Trade (except Structural): $95/hr min 1 hr per trade.' The 2nd and 3rd review per trade is also $95/hr, as is 'After 4th and all subsequent reviews as per F.S. 553.80(2)(c) per Trade'. Separate Zoning Plan Review $125/hr, Engineering Plan Review $125/hr, Flood Plan Review $110/hr, and Planning Board review $50. A two-trade solar job therefore carries a $190 review-fee floor before zoning, flood or board charges. 94% · fee schedule

Interconnection is a separate process from the permit and usually the longer pole. Where the utility does not depend on the permit being issued, running both at once is the single biggest saving available on a residential job.

• What is the stated plan-review turnaround? The Village publishes NO review-turnaround figure of its own, so the binding clock is statutory. F.S. 553.792(1)(a)1 (as amended by ch. 2026-63) requires approval, approval with conditions or denial within 5 BUSINESS DAYS for an applicant using a local government plans reviewer to obtain an ELECTRICAL permit for an EXISTING single-family residential dwelling where the value of the work is LESS THAN $15,000; (1)(a)2 gives 30 business days for a single-family dwelling or electrical permit where the structure is under 7,500 sq ft. So a sub-$15,000 PV electrical permit is on a five-business-day clock and a larger job on thirty. (1)(c) gives the Village 5 business days to say what is missing, failing which the application is automatically deemed complete. (1)(e) docks the permit fee 10% per business day of delay, (1)(g) 20% after revisions. THE VILLAGE'S APPLICATION CARRIES A WAIVER: 'OPTIONAL: I hereby waive the processing timeframes established in F.S. 553-792' with an owner signature line - marked optional, which is what (1)(a) requires ('the local government may not require the waiver ... as a condition precedent'). Do not sign it. Separately, the Solar Panel Permit Checklist promises only that 'Once the permit application is approved, it takes 1-2 business days to be invoiced'. A REAL CONSTRAINT THE CLOCK DOES NOT CAPTURE: the job must also be agendaed at a Planning & Design Review Board meeting (1st and 3rd Monday, 6:30 PM), and a 2022 agenda shows a solar item carried over into OLD BUSINESS from a prior meeting. 85% · state statute + permit application
• How long is an issued permit valid before it expires? One year. The Village codifies no expiry of its own - LDC Sec. 16.3.5 says conditions of permit 'including permit card, compliance, TIME LIMITATION, revocation of permit ... shall all be in accordance with the provisions of the Florida Building Code'. F.S. 553.79(1)(c): 'A building permit issued by a local government for a single-family dwelling expires 1 year after the issuance of the permit or on the effective date of the next edition of the Florida Building Code, whichever is later', and the local government must give written notice of expiration no less than 30 days beforehand. The Master Fee Schedule prices the consequences: 'Extend permit before expiration (one time only) $125'; renewal of an expired permit at 50% of the original base permit fee plus the application fee within six months or before the expiration date, and 100% plus the application fee after six months. 90% · state statute + codified ordinance
• Which utility handles interconnection here? Florida Power & Light (FPL), single investor-owned utility, whole Village. Proved five ways Village-side: (1) the Village's Power page reads 'Power is handled by Florida Power & Light' with FPL's number and support URL; (2) the Emergency Contact page lists 'Florida Power & Light: 888-988-8249'; (3) the Flood Protection page tells residents to report downed lines to FPL and 'Have your electricity turned off by FPL'; (4) REVENUE ACCOUNT TITLES in the FY2027 budget show EXACTLY ONE electric franchise and ONE electric utility tax account - '323.000 FRANCHISE FEES - ELECTRIC $160,241' and '314.000 UTILITY TAXES - ELECTRIC $255,000' - with the only other franchise lines being SOLID WASTE ($72,960) and GAS/PROPANE ($2,115); (5) NEGATIVE INDEX: no second electric seller appears anywhere in the line-item revenue detail. Because FPL is investor-owned, FAC Rule 25-6.065 binds it and there is a regulatory floor. The sponsorship trap was checked and did not bite: the Power page is a service page, not a promotion, and the budget lines corroborate it independently. 96% · village page + adopted budget
• Where does the utility sit in the sequence? Parallel, and FPL is not a Village prerequisite. Nothing in the Village's solar checklist, permit application or code conditions the permit on utility sign-off, and there is no 'FPL approval' tick-box on the application. On FPL's side, Electric Service Standards Section XIII (revision 10-30-25, inside the manual revised May 2026): 'It is highly RECOMMENDED that customers obtain FPL's written interconnection approval prior to procuring any material', and 'All net metering systems require written approval and agreement from FPL.' So interconnection runs alongside the permit, with FPL's written agreement needed before the system may operate in parallel and PTO following the Village's final inspection. Tier 1 (<=10 kW) pays FPL nothing: FAC 25-6.065(4)(e) 'Tier 1 customers ... shall not be charged fees in addition to those charged to other retail customers without self-generation, INCLUDING APPLICATION FEES'; (5)(e) 'The investor-owned utility shall not require liability insurance for Tier 1.' 90% · utility engineering standard + PSC rule

The NEC edition a jurisdiction enforces is often a cycle behind the newest one published, and local amendments sit on top of it. Rapid shutdown, conductor sizing and labelling all change between editions, so the edition in force is the first thing to establish, not the last.

• Which NEC edition is in force? NEC 2020, in force statewide through the Florida Building Code, 8th Edition (2023), effective 31 December 2023. Biscayne Park adopts no electrical code of its own: anchored \bNEC\b = 0 and 'National Electrical Code' = 0 across the whole codified Village corpus, and LDC Sec. 16.3.1 simply defers to the Florida Building Code. Miami-Dade Ch. 8 names no NEC edition either. WATCH THE 2023 TRAP: the Village publishes a '2023 Florida Building Code - Roofing Application', and 2023 there is the FBC EDITION (8th), not the NEC edition. A 2023 NEC update process is under way in Florida with no effective date established. 86% · codified ordinance (deferral) + state adoption
• Which building code edition is in force? Florida Building Code, 8th Edition (2023), with the Miami-Dade County local amendment package in County Code Chapter 8. The Village adopts the FBC by reference rather than by edition - LDC Sec. 16.3.1 ('regulated by the Florida Building Code'), Sec. 16.3.5 and Sec. 16.9.1 - so it floats to the current edition. The Village's own current roofing form is headed '2023 Florida Building Code - Roofing Application'. A STALENESS FLAG: the Village's 'Emergency Permits / Repair Permits' handout still cites 'Section 105, Chapter 1 of the 2014 Florida Building Code (FBC) 5th Edition' - two editions behind - while correctly reciting the 105.2.1 emergency-repair rule. 90% · codified ordinance + village form
• Which fire code edition is in force? Florida Fire Prevention Code, 8th Edition (2023) by state adoption. The Village's own fire text is a fossil and should not be relied on: LDC Sec. 8.5.1 adopts 'The South Florida Fire Prevention Code', a code that ceased to exist when the Florida Building Code superseded the South Florida Building Code, and Code of Ordinances Chapter 6 'FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL' consists of exactly two live sections, both about the use and storage of DYNAMITE, derived from Ord. No. 3 of 28 January 1932. The Village has NO fire department: the complete FY2027 General Fund expenditure list is Commission, Administration, Police, Code Compliance, Public Works, Parks & Recreation and Interfund Transfer Out - fire is settled by omission, and service is Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. CRUCIALLY FOR A HOUSE, THERE IS NO FIRE PLAN-REVIEW STEP: Miami-Dade Sec. 14-40 requires Chief Fire Official review of work requiring a building permit '(OTHER THAN ONE- AND TWO-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLINGS that are not used in a way that requires a State license and an inspection for compliance)'. 'solar' and 'photovoltaic' are both 0 across County Chapter 14 (controls: 'fire' 765, zzqqxvv 0). 88% · county code (Sec. 14-40) + adopted budget
• Are there local amendments to any of the above? Yes - but they are the COUNTY'S amendments, not the Village's, and none of them touches PV. Miami-Dade County Code Chapter 8 is the local amendment package: Art. I administration, Art. II inspector and plans-examiner certification, Sec. 8-31 local TECHNICAL amendments, Sec. 8-32 local ADMINISTRATIVE amendment to FBC Chapter 1, Art. IV Sec. 8-40 product approval. Sec. 8-32 amends Section 103 only (floodplain administrator); Sec. 8-31 is plumbing flow rates, pool/spa GFCI and water submeters. CONTROLLED NEGATIVE, RE-PROVED FIRST-HAND THIS RUN: 'solar' = 0 and 'photovoltaic' = 0 across the whole of County Chapter 8 (392,970 characters, 47 documents, zero empty non-Reserved documents), against passing controls 'building' 742 and 'electrical' 92 and fabricated control zzqqxvv 0. THE BROWARD PV PLAN-REVIEW LISTS AND PV INSPECTION SEQUENCE DO NOT TRAVEL TO MIAMI-DADE. There is no Miami-Dade Board of Rules and Appeals Municode product; Miami-Dade's BORA lives inside County Sec. 8-4. The Village's own additions are architectural and dimensional rather than technical: LDC Sec. 10.3 architectural design, Sec. 11.8.1 superimposed-structure height, Ch. 18 construction site management, and Sec. 16.3.4's universal planning-board plan approval. 92% · county code (Ch. 8)
• What is the installation judged against? The Florida Building Code 8th Edition (2023) and the 2020 NEC, plus the Miami-Dade Chapter 8 amendments and the Sec. 8-10(a) construction-document specification. There is NO Miami-Dade PV plan-review list and NO Miami-Dade PV inspection sequence (see q32), so a Biscayne Park PV job is judged against the generic FBC/NEC route with Sec. 8-10 supplying the drawing content. In practice the Village's Building Official is the final reviewer - the Solar Panel Permit Checklist: 'the permit application then goes through our plan review process where the inspectors and/or plan reviewer will go through the plans. OUR BUILDING OFFICIAL IS THE FINAL REVIEW AND APPROVAL.' The Uploading Instructions name the reviewer set: 'the structural engineer, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and roofing reviewers.' Layered on top and NOT code-based: the Planning & Design Review Board's aesthetic standard in LDC Sec. 10.3.1 ('harmonize and blend in with the other buildings in the area'). 90% · published checklist + county code

Ridge setbacks and roof access pathways are fire-service requirements and they constrain the array layout. They are the most common cause of a redesign after the fire department comments on a plan set.

• What ridge setback and access pathways are required? No local ridge setback or access pathway rule. 'solar' and 'photovoltaic' are 0 in the Village code, 0 in County Chapter 8 and 0 in County Chapter 14 (fire), so neither the Village nor the County writes a PV roof-access rule. The applicable requirements are the Florida Fire Prevention Code 8th Edition (2023) / NFPA 1 and FBC baseline pathway provisions. AND THERE IS NO LOCAL FIRE PLAN-REVIEW STEP TO APPLY THEM AT PERMIT STAGE ON A HOUSE: Miami-Dade Sec. 14-40 excludes one- and two-family residential dwellings from Chief Fire Official review, and the Village has no fire department. So on a Biscayne Park single-family job the pathway question is not reviewed by a fire authority before issuance; it falls to the Building Official's plan review and the Village's own SOLAR PANEL inspections. 78% · county code (Sec. 14-40) + codified absence

Which rapid-shutdown rule applies follows directly from the NEC edition in force, and the initiation device has to be at a location the fire service can reach and identify. This is inspected, and it is labelled.

• Is rapid shutdown required, and to which NEC edition? Rapid shutdown is required, to the 2020 NEC - Article 690.12 as adopted through the Florida Building Code 8th Edition (2023). No Village or Miami-Dade instrument mentions rapid shutdown: 'rapid shutdown' = 0 in the Village code, in County Chapter 8 and across 421 KB of Village site text, so there is no local amendment either tightening or relaxing it. 80% · codified ordinance (deferral) + NEC edition in force

The NEC sets a baseline for permanent markings at the service equipment and the disconnecting means. On top of that, an authority may specify its own wording, and the utility may specify more again. Where any of them writes its own text, a generic off-the-shelf label set will not pass — this is the detail most often fixed on a return visit.

• Which placards does this authority require at the service equipment? The AHJ requires none of its own; the UTILITY requires two (three with a battery). Searching 'placard', 'label', 'signage' and 'marking' across the codified Village corpus and 421 KB of Village site text returns no PV labelling rule, and the Village publishes no electrical worksheet. So the placard set is NEC 2020 (690.13, 690.56(C), 705.10, 705.12) plus FPL. FPL Electric Service Standards Section XIII.A.6, verbatim: 'All labels MUST be permanent and weatherproof/UV resistant placard with engraved letters. The customer is responsible for all labeling requirements. The following labels must be installed at the INTERCONNECTING METER CAN and the DER DISCONNECT SWITCH.' METER CAN: WARNING / MULTI POWER SOURCES / [ENTER SOURCES HERE] / RATED AC OUTPUT CURRENT ** AMPS / NOMINAL OPERATING VOLTAGE ** VOLTS. DER DISCONNECT SWITCH: GENERATION SYSTEM AC DISCONNECT / RATED AC OUTPUT CURRENT ** AMPS / NOMINAL OPERATING VOLTAGE ** VOLTS. BATTERY (XIII.C.1): 'A placard must be permanently affixed to the meter enclosure stating "Battery storage utilized in this facility."' *** THE LABELING PARAGRAPH IS NOT TIER-SCOPED. Item 4 (Disconnect Switch) is expressly limited to 'All tier 2 and tier 3 systems'; item 6 (Labeling) carries no tier limit. So the METER-CAN PLACARD REACHES A TIER 1 JOB THAT HAS NO DISCONNECT AT ALL. Quote A.6, not the Section B or Section E.g versions, which read 'should' rather than 'must' - all three are still printed in the same manual. 92% · utility engineering standard
• Does the authority specify placard wording of its own? No. The Village specifies no placard wording of its own. Tested across the full codified corpus (1.52 MB, 437 documents, zero empty non-Reserved documents) and the full published site (448 pages, 1,825 distinct document filenames): no labelling, placard or signage requirement for electrical or PV work exists. The wording that does bind comes from FPL (q38) and the NEC. 90% · codified ordinance (absence)
• Does it specify letter height, colour or material? The Village specifies nothing. FPL specifies material and lettering but NOT size or colour: 'All labels must be PERMANENT and WEATHERPROOF/UV RESISTANT placard with ENGRAVED LETTERS.' No letter height, no colour, no minimum dimensions appear anywhere in Section XIII. Letter heights and colours therefore fall to the NEC 2020 baseline (e.g. 690.13(B), 705.10) and ANSI Z535.4 practice rather than to any AHJ or utility specification. 90% · utility engineering standard
• Is a site plan / facility map placard required, and what must it show? No local requirement. Neither the Village nor Miami-Dade requires a site plan or facility map placard - the word 'placard' appears in the Village's instruments only in the county-derived permit-card context. The governing requirement is NEC 2020 705.10 (a permanent plaque or directory at the service equipment or interconnection point showing the location of all electric power source disconnecting means) for systems with multiple sources. FPL's Section XIII adds a documentary rather than an on-site equivalent: 'Meter numbers associated with interconnecting premise must be included in Single Line Diagrams (SLD) and/or plans.' What IS required on site is a permit card: County Sec. 8-10(c) requires a weatherproof permit card posted conspicuously at the front of the premises for the duration of the work. 76% · codified ordinance (absence) + NEC edition in force
• Does the UTILITY specify placards beyond the AHJ's? Yes - and on this authority the utility's placards are the ONLY placards specified by any named body, because the Village specifies none. FPL requires engraved, permanent, weatherproof/UV resistant placards at the interconnecting meter can and at the DER disconnect switch, plus a battery placard on the meter enclosure. See q38 for the exact wording of all three. LEGAL WEIGHT MATTERS HERE: the battery placard and the meter-can wording live in FPL's ENGINEERING MANUAL (Electric Service Standards Section XIII), not in FPL's PSC-filed tariff. They are a condition of interconnection rather than a tariff obligation. 90% · utility engineering standard
• Where must the labels be placed? At the INTERCONNECTING METER CAN and at the DER DISCONNECT SWITCH (FPL Section XIII.A.6), and for a battery system on the METER ENCLOSURE (XIII.C.1). Where a DER disconnect switch is fitted it must be 'mounted separate from but adjacent to the FPL meter socket WITHIN 10 FEET and must always remain accessible to FPL', with 'no locked gates, doors or fences between the meter socket and the DER disconnect switch', and the plans must show the dimension between them. On a Tier 1 job with no disconnect, the meter-can placard still applies because the labelling paragraph is not tier-scoped. The Village adds no placement rule of its own. 92% · utility engineering standard

Where the AC disconnect must sit relative to the meter is usually the utility's rule, not the building department's. Battery storage frequently carries its own permit, its own inspection and its own fire conditions.

• Where must the AC disconnect be, relative to the meter? It depends on the TAP POINT, not on the tier, and for a typical Tier 1 load-side interconnection there is no AC disconnect at all. FPL Section XIII.A.4: 'ALL TIER 2 AND TIER 3 SYSTEMS require an FPL approved visually open Distributed Energy Resource (DER) disconnect switch ... mounted separate from but adjacent to the FPL meter socket WITHIN 10 FEET and must always remain accessible to FPL ... There shall be no locked gates, doors or fences between the meter socket and the DER disconnect switch.' XIII.A.5: 'FPL recommends that all interconnections will be performed on the LOAD SIDE of the customer's main electrical panel. If the interconnection is performed on the LINE SIDE of the customers main electrical panel (per NEC) A MANUAL AC DISCONNECT IS REQUIRED between AC generation output and the point of interconnection to FPL facilities ... within 10 feet.' FAC 25-6.065(6) agrees: 'Inverter-based Tier 1 customer-owned renewable generation systems shall be EXEMPT from this requirement', the switch to be 'mounted separate from, but adjacent to, the meter socket and ... readily accessible'. SO: ASK THE TAP POINT BEFORE QUOTING THE LABEL COUNT. Load-side Tier 1 = no switch, one meter-can placard. Line-side Tier 1 = a manual AC disconnect within 10 ft plus a second placard. *** AN UNRESOLVED CONTRADICTION STILL LIVE IN THE MAY-2026 MANUAL: XIII.A.4 limits the switch to tier 2 and 3 (i.e. above 10 kW) while the 'DER Disconnect Switch Utility Requirements' page of the same section says FPL requires it 'for all DER installations ranging from 10kW to 2MW'. Also absolute: 'Under no circumstance will the customer make interconnections in any FPL equipment including metering enclosures, transformers, switching cabinets, vaults'. 92% · utility engineering standard + PSC rule
• Must equipment be on a specific approved list? Yes, on two independent tracks. (1) PRODUCT APPROVAL: Miami-Dade Sec. 8-40 requires a high-wind-zone approval from the Florida Building Commission or a local approval under F.S. 553.842/553.8425 for envelope products - 'limited to windows, exterior glazing, wall cladding, ROOFING, exterior doors, skylights, glass block, siding and shutters'. Rack-mounted PV is outside that list and runs on Florida Product Approval; an integrated PV roof is inside it and needs a Miami-Dade NOA. Either way the number goes on the framing plan (Sec. 8-10(a): 'Material: Roofing and sheathing material (Including Product Approval Number)'), and the Village's uploading instructions require product approvals to be uploaded as one multi-page PDF. The Village also prices 'Truss plans, PRODUCT APPROVAL and shop drawing review submitted after permit issued' at $130/hour. (2) INVERTER LISTING: FPL Section XIII.A.1 - 'The customer must utilize a certified UL 1741 SA and IEEE 1547 grid interactive inverter. Inverters that have not been certified to UL Standard will be DENIED INTERCONNECTION.' Battery storage not NRTL-certified to UL 1741 'must be DC coupled behind a UL 1741 listed device'. 91% · county code (Sec. 8-40) + utility standard
• Are batteries permitted, and under what conditions? Permitted, with no Village-specific conditions at all. 'battery', 'energy storage' and anchored \bESS\b all return 0 in the codified Village corpus and 'battery' returns 0 across 421 KB of Village site text; County Chapter 8 and County Chapter 14 (fire) are likewise silent on PV and storage. So the conditions are the FBC/FFPC 8th Edition (2023) baseline (NFPA 855 as adopted) plus FPL's interconnection rules: a placard on the meter enclosure reading 'Battery storage utilized in this facility.'; NRTL certification to UL 1741 or DC coupling behind a listed device; energy stored is for the customer's use and MAY NOT BE EXPORTED to the grid; and a backup-only battery that cannot backfeed needs no interconnection agreement. A REAL LOCAL CONSTRAINT ON SITING: 92.8% of the Village's land is in Zone AE with a BFE of 7 ft, and LDC Ch. 6.5 requires that development 'Have mechanical, plumbing, and electrical systems above the design flood elevation or meet the requirements of ASCE 24'. A ground-mounted or garage-wall battery, inverter or disconnect must satisfy that. 84% · utility standard + codified flood ordinance
• Is there a separate ESS permit or inspection? No. There is no separate Village ESS permit or inspection type. The Village's permit application enumerates a CLOSED list of permit-type checkboxes - BUILDING, ELECTRICAL, MECHANICAL, PLUMBING, DEMOLITION, DRIVEWAY, DUMPSTER, FENCE, POOL/SPA, GUTTER, ROOF, WINDOWS/DOORS, SHOP DRAWING, OTHER - with no solar and no storage box; and the published 'INSPECTION TYPES BY PERMIT TYPE' sheet lists SOLAR PANEL (IN PROGRESS, FINAL) and GENERATOR (SLAB, FINAL) but no battery or ESS type. Storage would be permitted as ELECTRICAL. F.S. 553.791(1)(r) classifies 'solar energy and energy storage installations or alterations' as single-trade work for private-provider purposes, which is consistent. 86% · published inspection-type list + permit application
• Is a ground mount treated as a structure? Yes in substance, though the Village writes no PV-specific rule. A ground mount is contemplated and priced - the Master Fee Schedule's Solar Photovoltaic block reads 'Ground Mounted per system $1,200 +review fees' - and it would be regulated as an accessory structure under LDC Chapter 11: Sec. 11.1.2 requires a permitted principal development on the lot, compliance with standards pertaining to the principal use, and that accessory structures 'shall not in general be located in a required setback area'. LDC Table A sets Sector minimum setbacks of 10 ft rear and 10 ft sides, front/side-street 30 ft (50 ft in Sector A), and caps lot coverage at 50%; the Village publishes a 'Lot Coverage Calculations Form'. Sec. 11.8.1's 8-foot cap on 'superimposed structures' applies to structures upon a building, not to a ground mount. Being in Zone AE with BFE 7 ft across most of the Village, a ground mount also engages the flood chapter's 'other development' provisions. 80% · fee schedule + codified ordinance (LDC Ch. 11)
• Is there a local rule on service upgrades or busbar sizing? No local rule on service upgrades or busbar sizing. Nothing in the codified Village text addresses service capacity, busbars or the 120% rule ('busbar' = 0, anchored \bNEC\b = 0, 'electrical' 15 hits none of which is a technical rule). The Master Fee Schedule does price the two changes separately, which is the practical consequence: ELECTRICAL - 'Meter Changeout $450' and 'Panel Changeout $500', each on top of the $1,200 Solar Photovoltaic line. The governing technical rule is NEC 705.12 under the 2020 NEC. FPL adds a system-side limit rather than a panel-side one: generation capped at 90% of the FPL distribution transformer rating. 80% · fee schedule + codified ordinance (absence)
• Is a specific mounting system or attachment spacing required? No Village-specified mounting system or attachment spacing. The requirements are documentary and come from the County: Sec. 8-10(a) requires the framing plan to show 'roof mounted equipment', 'Pressures for wind design', 'Loads and load transfer calculations required by the Code' and 'Material: Roofing and sheathing material (Including Product Approval Number)'. The product-approval route is a PRODUCT-CLASS test: Sec. 8-40 confines the Miami-Dade NOA route to envelope products 'limited to windows, exterior glazing, wall cladding, roofing, exterior doors, skylights, glass block, siding and shutters', so rack-mounted PV runs on Florida Product Approval (F.S. 553.842) while an integrated PV roof is roofing and does need an NOA. Sec. 8-40(a)(4) makes a Miami-Dade product approval 'valid countywide'. The Village's own contribution is the requirement that engineering plans be digitally signed and sealed, and its $130/hour structural engineer review. 86% · county code (Sec. 8-40, Sec. 8-10)

Booking is a portal, a phone call or an email depending on the authority, and the notice required is rarely zero. Book before the work is finished rather than after — the lead time, not the work, is usually what sets the date.

• How is an inspection booked? Email. The Village's building-department announcement is unambiguous and in capitals: 'ALL INSPECTION REQUESTS MUST BE SENT TO: INSPECTION@BISCAYNEPARKFL.GOV'. There is no online inspection-booking function advertised on the CAP portal landing path, no phone-booking line and no walk-in option published. The same notice covers the November 2024 move of permit processing to cap.geocivix.com. 85% · department notice
• How much notice is required? One day, by 4 PM. 'Requests must be submitted A DAY PRIOR to the day of inspection BY 4PM.' No same-day route is published and no cut-off exception is stated. Village Hall public hours are Monday-Thursday 9:00-5:00 (closed 1:00-2:00) and Friday 9:00-12:00, which bounds when a request is likely to be processed. 85% · department notice

Some authorities inspect their own solar work; some delegate it, and a few do not inspect the PV equipment itself at all. Who is coming determines what they will look at.

• Does this AHJ perform its own final solar inspection? Yes. The Village performs its own inspections, through CAP Government staff badged as the Village's building department, and it has a DEDICATED SOLAR PANEL INSPECTION TYPE. The published 'INSPECTION TYPES BY PERMIT TYPE' sheet (authored by 'Building Clerk', created November 2024, last modified 11 June 2025) carries a SOLAR PANEL block with two entries: 'IN PROGRESS' and 'FINAL'. Nothing is delegated to Miami-Dade County for a house - County Sec. 14-40 excludes one- and two-family dwellings from Chief Fire Official review and County Ch. 8 leaves inspection with the municipal building official. 93% · published inspection-type list
• If delegated, to whom? Not delegated to another government, but CONTRACTED OUT: inspections and plan review are performed by CAP GOVERNMENT INC. (a Bureau Veritas company) under a Village contract renewed by Resolution 2025-61 ('Approving Renewal Term with CAP Government Building Permitting'). The Village's own staff directory lists two Building Officials and the Building Coordinator each tagged '(CAP)' - Pedro Martinez (CAP), Building Official, (786) 366-0398; Miguel Nunez (CAP), Building Official, (361) 251-4623; Dina Escobar (CAP), Building Coordinator - all on @biscayneparkfl.gov mailboxes (buildingofficial@, building@). The Code Compliance Manager is also tagged (CAP). The FY2027 Building Fund prices it: object code 31.000 'PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CAP GOVT' - 31000 Inspectors '(100% of budgeted bldg permits-FY27)' $104,800, 31002 Clerical (Building) $92,110, 31001 Clerical (Code) $78,000, total $291,110 - against a single retained Village position, 'Bldg Permit Coordinator' at $27,517. The inspector line being pegged at 100% of budgeted building permits makes it a pass-through. A CORROBORATING TRACE OF THE PARENT: every page of the Village's own Master Fee Schedule is footed 'BV_C2_Internal', a Bureau Veritas document-classification marking. 94% · village staff directory + adopted budget

A rough-in or mid-roof inspection, where one is required, has to happen before the work it covers is closed up. Missing a stage means opening something back up, and it is the most expensive kind of correction.

• Which inspections are required, and in what order? Two Village inspections on the solar permit and a separate electrical sequence, plus a board step before any of it. Order: (1) Planning & Design Review Board pre-approval of the project; (2) plan review by the trade reviewers with the Building Official as final approver; (3) invoice, in-person payment, permit issued and approved documents stamped; (4) recorded Notice of Commencement posted on site before the first inspection; (5) SOLAR PANEL 'IN PROGRESS'; (6) SOLAR PANEL 'FINAL'. The concurrent ELECTRICAL permit draws on the published electrical inspection types, which include ROUGH, BONDING, GROUNDING, UNDERGROUND, METER CONNECT, DISCONNECT SERVICE, TEMP. FOR TEST and FINAL. Where the array is combined with a re-roof, the ROOF types (UNDERLAYMENT, IN PROGRESS, TIN CAP, FINAL) come into play as well. 86% · published inspection-type list
• Is a rough-in or mid-roof inspection required? Yes - the Village's SOLAR PANEL permit type has exactly one mid-stage inspection, labelled 'IN PROGRESS', ahead of the 'FINAL'. It is not called a rough-in or a mid-roof. The separate ELECTRICAL type list does carry a 'ROUGH', which would apply to the electrical permit. Note for comparison that the Village's ROOF permit type has its own 'IN PROGRESS' stages (UNDERLAYMENT, TIN CAP, PITCH & ELEVATION, METAL/TILE IN PROGRESS). 90% · published inspection-type list

The approved plan set, the permit, and the equipment listings should be on site and reachable. Inspectors routinely verify that installed equipment matches what was approved, and that the labels are the ones the plan set promised.

• Is there a published inspection checklist? No inspection checklist; yes, a submittal checklist. The Village publishes a 'BUILDING PERMIT(S) CHECKLIST' page listing 19 SUBMITTAL checklists by work type, one of which is the 'Solar Panel Permit Checklist' - but that document describes what to file and the route through the board and plan review, not what an inspector examines. The nearest inspection document is 'INSPECTION TYPES BY PERMIT TYPE', which names the stages (SOLAR PANEL: IN PROGRESS, FINAL) without saying what is checked at each. So: a published solar SUBMITTAL checklist exists and is unusually good for an authority of 3,100 people; a published solar INSPECTION checklist does not. 88% · published checklist
• What must be on site at inspection? On site at inspection: (1) the weatherproof PERMIT CARD, posted conspicuously at the front of the premises for the duration of the work - County Sec. 8-10(b)/(c), and the Village charges $25 to replace a lost one at the office (free to download); (2) the APPROVED STAMPED PLANS - the Village's Uploading Instructions: 'Approved documents are to be downloaded to have available for construction crew AND INSPECTOR'; (3) a RECORDED NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT - the permit application's statutory warning: 'A NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT MUST BE RECORDED AND POSTED ON THE JOB SITE BEFORE THE FIRST INSPECTION'; and the Village publishes a Notice of Commencement Packet. (4) Potentially the QUALIFIER IN PERSON - LDC Sec. 16.19.2(3) lets the Building Official require the contractor or qualifier to 'appear at all building inspections', and the fee schedule makes this mandatory from the third re-inspection onward. 88% · published instructions + county code + permit application

Passing gives you a final or an equivalent sign-off. That is not the same as permission to operate: PTO comes from the utility, and who tells the utility the inspection passed varies. A system left switched off for weeks is usually waiting on this handover.

• What is issued on pass? A passed FINAL inspection on the solar permit (and on the electrical permit), not a certificate of occupancy. The published inspection-type sheet ends the SOLAR PANEL sequence at 'FINAL', and a PV retrofit does not change occupancy, so LDC Sec. 16.4's certificate of occupancy is not engaged. The Village does publish an 'APPLICATION FOR TEMPORARY/PERMANENT CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY/COMPLETION' with TCO / C/O / TCC / C/C number fields - the CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION limb is the one that would fit a solar permit if the Building Official requires a closing document, and it certifies 'that the electrical wiring and/or equipment ... has been inspected and approved'. Two gates on final approval: County Sec. 8-10(b) plans are stamped 'REVIEWED FOR CODE COMPLIANCE'; and LDC Sec. 18.3.8 - before final approval the Building Official 'shall require that all solid waste be removed from the construction site'. 72% · published inspection-type list + village form
• Who notifies the utility for PTO? The installer or customer, to FPL - not the AHJ. Nothing in the Village's instruments mentions the utility, interconnection or PTO ('FPL' = 0 and 'Florida Power' = 0 in the codified corpus), and the Village has no published step for notifying a utility. On FPL's side the customer carries the process: 'All net metering systems require written approval and agreement from FPL', and 'It is highly recommended that customers obtain FPL's written interconnection approval prior to procuring any material'; enquiries go to netmetering@fpl.com. FAC 25-6.065 governs the investor-owned interconnection process, and a Tier 1 (<=10 kW) customer pays no application fee and needs no liability insurance. 85% · utility engineering standard + proved local absence
• Is there a re-inspection fee? Yes, and it escalates: '$95 first occurrence / $110 second occurrence / $125 third occurrence, and then after, THE QUALIFIER MUST ALSO MEET THE INSPECTOR AT THE JOB SITE on the next inspection' (Master Fee Schedule, amended June 2026). There is no free first re-inspection. Related charges on the same schedule: Administrative fee $40.00; Permit Cancellation $100 'includes an inspection to verify no work has been done'; and a refund on a cancelled permit is 'less $125 per discipline or 50% of permit fees, whichever is greater', with state and county fees non-refundable. 92% · fee schedule
• How are corrections issued and cleared? By email, with the corrected set re-uploaded whole. Solar Panel Permit Checklist: 'Comments will be sent via email and responses to comments are to be submitted by uploading responses and updated plans with corrections into the application. THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT IS NOT ALLOWED TO INSERT PLAN PAGES.' Uploading Instructions: 'For correction of review comments, please upload the COMPLETE REVISED SET over the previous rejected one. This way a complete set will be stamped after approval', 'All changes in plans must be properly CLOUDED', and reworks are named '... Rework 1'. After issuance a change is a new application: 'a new application for revision named "Revision to permit #....." must be submitted as a new permit application', with files named '... Revision 1'. COST OF CORRECTIONS: the $95/hr per-trade review fee covers the initial review and ONE subsequent review; the 2nd and 3rd reviews and everything from the 4th (cited to F.S. 553.80(2)(c)) are charged again at $95/hr per trade. 90% · published checklist + published instructions