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Announcements
Upcoming Public Educational Roundtable
Sessions
The City of Orlando’s Permitting Services Division plans to have
Educational Roundtables once per quarter in 2008 with various topics.
Our next session is titled “When Do I Need a Permit?”
Please join us to learn the answers to these questions and more when
doing work within the City of Orlando:
Do I need a permit to install gutters?
Do I need a permit to paint the outside of my house?
Do I need a permit to install low voltage landscape lights?
Do I need a permit to install a landscape irrigation system?
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Time: 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Place: City Hall, Council Chambers, 2nd Floor
400 South Orange Avenue
Orlando, FL 32801
Please RSVP to
arlene.gonzalez@cityoforlando.net by Friday, June 13th.
For questions, please call Doug Gaines, Economic Development
Coordinator, at 407-246-3648.
We hope to see you there!
The first session occurred in March with the topic being our Platting
Process. Attendees came away with valuable information and asked lots of
questions of the City’s staff.
Please click here ....
for the Presentation.
New
Telephone System
To continue efficiently serving our customers, The City of Orlando is
implementing a VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) telephone system.
Click here...... 
for details.
The
City of Orlando Celebrates Building Safety
Week
America and the City of Orlando will celebrate Building Safety Week from
May 5th through May 11th. The central theme of the week focuses on
Building Safety where you Live, Work and Play.
First observed in 1980, Building Safety Week raises public awareness of
critical safety issues: the structural soundness of the building in
which we live and work; reliability of fire prevention and suppression
systems; plumbing and mechanical systems and energy efficiency and
sustainability.
The City of Orlando is celebrating by presenting our ideas of Building
Safety to the City Council, and having Mayor Buddy Dyer read a
proclamation. We will also have a display area in the Permitting
Services’ lobby. Each of five City departments that represent the City’s
safety experts, who think about building safety and fire prevention
every day, will have a display one day of the week. These departments
are Permitting Services, Housing & Community Development, Emergency
Management, Code Enforcement and the Orlando Fire Department. The
materials that will be available to the public will show how we are
making our City a safer place to Live, Work and Play.
LASER PROFILING OF STORM
LINES
Notice to contractors who are
currently working on commercial public and private infrastructure
improvements:
Over the past few weeks there has
been questions asked about the videotaping storm lines before your final
inspection. The City of Orlando is now requiring contractors to laser
profile their storm lines instead of videotaping the lines as we have in
the past. Our Engineering Standards Manual (ESM), clearly states that
the most current FDOT practices supersede what is in the ESM. It does
not matter when you started your project, everyone must adhere to the
new requirement. The contractor is responsible for making arrangements
to have your lines laser profiled.
Please refer to the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT)
Standards Specifications for Road and Bridge Construction 2007 Section
430 for the most current laser profiling requirements. For more
information, please visit FDOT’s website at
www.dot.state.fl.us/Specificationsoffice/2007BK/430.pdf
Special note: As noted in the FDOT Spec Book, any pipe deflection
over 5%, the pipe must be removed and replaced from structure to
structure, no exceptions. requirement. The contractor is responsible for making
arrangements to have your lines laser profiled.
New Orange County
School Impact Fees
Area Affected
by the Ban
Permit Application Submittal process for Swimming Pools and Screen Enclosures Changed
Effective January, 2008 swimming pools and screen enclosures will be
required to be dropped off. The review time will be 24 - 48 hours.
Existing
Homes must meet new Roof
Replacement Requirements
Notice: Effective October 1, 2007 the Florida Comprehensive Hurricane
Damage Mitigation Program as modified by Florida Statute 553.844
requires all permit applications for roof replacement on existing one
and two family dwellings built prior to March 1, 2002 to have roof deck
attachments strengthened or corrected and a secondary water barrier
installed as part of the scope of work. Click
here for more information.
Notice of Transportation Impact Fee Rate
Increase
Notice is hereby given that, as of October 1st,
2007, the rate for Transportation Impact Fees in the City of Orlando will
increase, consistent with the rate schedule referenced in Chapter 56, City Code,
as amended on December 31,
2006. For a complete copy of Orlando’s
Transportation Impact Fee Ordinance and Rate Schedules - Chapter 56, are
available
here.
To receive a copy of the new Impact Fee Rate Schedule please visit the City of
Orlando Permitting Services Lobby located on the 1st floor, City Hall, 400 S.
Orange Avenue, Orlando, Fl 32801.
Permitting Advisory Committee
Our Permitting Advisory Committee has met
several times this year. This committee is focusing on ways to improve
customer service and streamline various permitting processes. Their
input will assist us as we focus on our processes and efficiencies with
the Permitting Division. The Committee consists of 16 people from
construction, architecture, engineering, legal, development and permit
expediting industries. This group is meeting monthly and will serve for
an 18-month period. Members of our permitting team, as well as related
departments, who are involved in the permitting process, are staffing
the committee.
Next Meeting Date: May 15, 2008
Residential and Commercial Plan Submittals
Residential Plan Submittals require 4 complete sets of plans for Permit
Review. For further information see our
Residential
Plans Submittal Checklist.
Commercial Plan Submittals require 4
complete sets of signed and sealed drawings. Please reference the
Commercial
Plans Submittal Checklist.
A building permit application will be required
when applying for any building permit.
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