How to get a window permit in Weston

Weston will let a window and door replacement travel as a quick permit. The city lists it next to garage doors and shutters, and they publish a 3–5 business day review for a complete submittal. Complete is the word that matters. A missing schedule or a product approval that does not match the order is not a quick permit. It is a hold.

What goes in the package

Weston enforces the Florida Building Code and Broward County. For retrofit windows they point at the Broward County Uniform Retrofit Window and Door Schedule, Policy 20-01, and their own affidavit and notice to contractors on retrofit windows. There is also a Broward fenestration wind-load chart. Those sheets have to describe the same openings, with the same sizes, as the product sitting on the order.

The file names matter. Weston publishes a naming convention and reviewers use it. Uploading one giant scan called “windows final final” is how a complete package becomes an incomplete one.

The city is not the association

A lot of Weston houses sit in a master community. The city can be ready to issue while the association still wants an architectural application, a paint sample, or a specific frame color. We ask which community the property is in before we tell you the only clock is the building department. Those are two approvals. Getting one does not produce the other.

What we do before we file

• Match the product approval to the series, glass, and design pressure on each opening.
• Build the retrofit schedule so it agrees with the wind-load chart.
• Name the files the way the portal expects.
• Flag the association if the house is in one, and keep that off the city’s critical path when the city does not ask for it.

If the opening is changing size, or a new opening is being cut, this is no longer the quick window permit. Say so at the start. Forcing that scope through the retrofit checklist is how the 3–5 day lane disappears.