What Broward wants for a reroof

Broward County is in the high-velocity hurricane zone. A reroof is not a shingle color and a check. The roof system has to be an approved assembly, the city has to see the mitigation forms, and the first inspection does not happen if the Notice of Commencement is missing on a job that needs one.

The packet is not the same in every city

Plantation publishes a roofing list we use as a serious example, not as a universal form: the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone uniform permit application (section 1525), a re-roof hurricane mitigation application, a roof-to-wall connection affidavit, a rooftop equipment affidavit when equipment is up there, and the section 1524 owner notification. Weston does not want that stack copied onto their portal. Weston has its own re-roof and gas-vent affidavit. Pembroke Pines will not take the package by email at all. It goes through the Development Hub. Fort Lauderdale wants it in LauderBuild, digital only.

If someone hands us “the Broward roof PDF” we still open the city’s current sheet. Using the wrong cover page is a correction, and corrections are how a reroof misses a dry week.

Product approval and the Notice of Commencement

Tile, metal, and shingles are different approvals. The approval has to be the system being installed, including the underlayment the notice describes, not a cousin product from the same brand. Tamarac prints a $5,000 Notice of Commencement line on its window page. Roofing jobs clear that number constantly. The recorded notice has to be in the city’s hands before the first inspection. We do not discover that on the morning the inspector is supposed to walk the deck.

What we tell the contractor up front

• Which city’s packet this address actually uses.
• Whether a roof-to-wall affidavit is on that city’s list.
• Whether the existing roof deck has to be photographed or described before tear-off.
• That an association can still refuse a tile color the city already approved.

Plantation, for what it’s worth, put in writing that association approval is not required to apply for or receive the building permit, and that a city permit is not association approval. That split is the cleanest way to explain Broward roofs: two yeses, from two different desks.