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Doral, Miami-Dade County

Demolition in Doral

Doral's demolition checklist, form BD-52, asks for a notarized utility-disconnect letter, the county asbestos notice, a temporary fence and dust screen permit, and a plumbing sub-permit to cap lines or abandon a septic tank. Most of that paperwork has to be in hand before the city will issue anything.

Doral Country Club opened in 1962 on about 2,400 acres of former swampland. Homes followed in the early 1980s at Doral Estates and Doral Park, and growth sped up after a 1983 to 1985 county moratorium. The city incorporated in 2003, and importers, exporters and logistics firms cluster here because the airport is close. A warehouse demolition means slab, loading docks and site utilities, all scoped from drawings and a walk of the property.

Commercial demolition in Miami-Dade needs DERM approval, and Doral's checklist names the County-approved asbestos notice. We arrange a licensed asbestos survey, coordinate the licensed abatement firm, and line up the disconnect letters before the permit is filed. Capping lines or abandoning a septic tank is done under the plumbing sub-permit by a licensed plumber we coordinate.

Doral publishes its own list of tree-removal permit exemptions. Check it before any tree on the lot comes down with the building, since county rules on tree removal still apply where an exemption does not.

Sources: Wikipedia: Doral, Florida · Miami-Dade County: building permits and demolition requirements · City of Doral: tree removal permit exemptions · Miami-Dade County: tree removal permits

Who issues the permit in Doral

City of Doral Building Department

Checklist BD-52: notarized utility-disconnect letter, County asbestos notice, temporary fence and dust screen permit, and a plumbing sub-permit for capping or septic abandonment. Confirm the current version with the city.

See the official page

This is general information, not legal advice. If you hire Romco, we apply for the permit as contractor of record. Miami-Dade demolition permit guide

What we quote in Doral

Other work we quote

From first call to final

The order a Miami-Dade job follows

Romco Builders is a licensed Florida general contractor, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale. A garden shed and a mid-rise run through the same steps.

  1. Call or send the request

    Give us the address, photos or plans if you have them, and a plain account of what goes and what remains.

  2. Site visit

    We check how the building is framed, where the services enter, how trucks and machines get in, and what stands on either side.

  3. Scope and quote in writing

    You get a written scope listing removals, protections and haul-off, with any item that hangs on the asbestos survey called out.

  4. Survey, notice and permit

    A licensed asbestos survey, the DERM notice where it applies, the utility disconnects, then the permit from the city or the county.

  5. Take-down and hauling

    Work runs in the agreed sequence. Loads go to permitted facilities, and we keep the tickets.

  6. Final and closeout

    The inspector signs off the permit. You are left with a clean lot, or the shell you asked us to keep.

Questions

Demolition in Doral

Does the utility-disconnect letter for a Doral demolition need to be notarized?

Doral's BD-52 checklist calls for a notarized utility-disconnect letter, alongside the County asbestos notice and the fence and dust screen permit. Utility disconnects are done by the providers and licensed trades, and we coordinate them. Confirm the current checklist with the Building Department.

How much will my demolition cost?

We quote each job after seeing it, in person or through photos and plans when they show enough. The figure moves with the construction type, the floor area and height, the asbestos survey result, the utilities to be cut off, how machines reach the work, what stands next door, what must be kept, and how far the loads travel. A 1950s concrete block house and a 1990s frame addition can sit on the same street and quote very differently, which is why we publish no rates.

Why does Miami-Dade want an asbestos survey even for a house?

The county's own demolition requirements call for an asbestos survey on every demolition project, which is stricter than the federal rule for some small homes. A notice of demolition also goes to DERM, the county's environmental resources office, no later than ten working days ahead of the start date. The building permit is a different document and cannot stand in for it. We arrange a licensed survey, and a licensed abatement firm removes anything the work would disturb. Romco coordinates both and is not an abatement contractor.

How long does it take to get from first call to a cleared site?

We will not guess before the facts are known. The answer depends on the plan review queue at your city or the county, how fast the utilities issue their disconnect letters, what the survey turns up and the notice period that follows, any historic or condo board approval, and how big the building is and what it is built from. When we know those, you get a sequence that names what each step waits on.

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Tell us what is coming down. We will put a quote on it.

Romco Builders is a licensed Florida general contractor, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale. A single interior partition or a complete building gets the same thing: a written scope and a quote.

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