Concrete Contractors in Seminole Manor, FL

No City Hall Here: The County Permit Center Covers Seminole Manor

The 2020 Census counted 2,562 people in Seminole Manor, and because it's a CDP rather than a city, building permits come from Palm Beach County's Permit Center. It takes applications at the Vista Center on North Jog Road in West Palm Beach and through the online ePZB system, and a South County office sits in Delray Beach. Your envelope may say Lake Worth or Lantana, yet 15 of 20 map points we checked came back as ZIP 33462 and a few as 33461 or 33436, so the mailing city tells you nothing about the permit desk.

The County Building Official has stated that the HB 803 exemption for work under $7,500 does not apply anywhere in Palm Beach County, because the whole county counts as a flood hazard area. Read how that plays out for flatwork in our Palm Beach County permit guide. A lot at the edge of the CDP can belong to a neighboring town, so confirm the parcel's jurisdiction before you call anyone.

Houses From About 1970: Pricing the Replacement

The census survey puts the median Seminole Manor home at a build year of 1970, with a median owner-occupied value of $296,100. On homes that age, a replacement starts with two questions: how wide can the new driveway be, and what happens to the apron at the street?

Tear-out is its own line in our quote at $2 to $4 per sq ft on top of the pour. A 600 sq ft double driveway is $4,200 to $7,800 to pour at $7 to $13 per sq ft, plus the removal line at $2 to $4 per sq ft for the old concrete. We check whatever is under it before forms go in. An old base isn't one we trust blind. Ask any bidder what happens to the old base. The driveway page walks through the full sequence, and the free written estimate comes after a site visit.

Sixty Percent Basinger: What Wet Sand Asks of a Seminole Manor Pad

NRCS maps show wet ground here. On NRCS soil maps at 30 points inside the CDP, Basinger-Urban land complex covered 60 percent of points, Myakka-Urban land complex 13.3 percent, Myakka fine sand 10 percent and Basinger fine sand 6.7 percent. That's 90 percent of points in poorly drained units, rated very limited for dwellings without basements. NRCS puts the annual minimum water table near 15 centimeters for Basinger, about six inches, and near 31 centimeters, about a foot, for Myakka.

Two of the 30 points, 6.7 percent, were Pomello fine sand, which drains better and has a minimum water table near 84 centimeters, and 3.3 percent was water. The map points differ, so the site visit looks at your own ground. On the wet units the base is compacted sand, the grade carries water off the pad and away from the house, and joints are laid out so cracks follow the saw cuts. As a concrete contractor in Seminole Manor, we answer the base question before we price. Slab work on this kind of ground is covered on our slab page.

Zone X at Nine in Ten Points and One Point in AE

FEMA's flood layer put 90 percent of our 30 map points in Zone X, minimal hazard, 6.7 percent in shaded Zone X, the 0.2 percent annual chance area, and 3.3 percent, one point, in Zone AE. A Zone X label doesn't make a lot dry. The County memo treats every parcel as a flood hazard area for HB 803, and more than a quarter of flood insurance claims in the county come from Zone X structures, according to the Building Division's flood page.

Look up your parcel's zone on the FEMA map before you ask for a quote, and tell us what it says. In AE, talk the slab or patio through with the Permit Center before anything is formed. The County's flood desk sits in the same Building Division.

Seminole Circle to Topeka Road: Finding Your Street

Streets that turned up at our map points inside the CDP include Lawrence Road, Seminole Circle, Seminole Drive, Cheyenne Drive, Kewanee Road, Pensacola Drive, Tallulah Road, Sioux Lane, Tuskegee Drive, Topeka Road and Waseca Drive. If your street is on that list, you're in the area this page describes.

Corner lots matter on a grid like this. The County's residential rules put a corner-lot driveway at least 35 feet from the intersection of the right-of-way lines, keep every connection at least 2 feet from the side lot line, and allow no more than two connections on a local street. Each connection runs 12 feet wide at minimum and 24 feet at maximum. We measure from the survey, not the street name. Send the survey and a photo of the street edge, and we read those distances off your survey before we draw anything.

Culverts, Turnouts and the County Land Development Fee

Whether your lot needs a culvert is the first question we settle as concrete contractors in Seminole Manor. A driveway that connects to a County-maintained thoroughfare, or to a County road where a culvert is needed, needs a Right-of-Way permit from County Engineering's Land Development Division. A connection serving up to two units, with no culvert, gets a driveway permit from the Building Division instead. The Division's fee schedule lists a residential turnout at $275, plus $35 per foot of culvert where one is used, and it takes applications through E-Permits only. Details are in the County's residential driveway sheet.

Stamped concrete and pavers inside the road right-of-way need a recorded removal agreement. We can keep the pattern on the private side of the line and pour a plain apron at the road, which avoids the agreement. The stamped concrete page shows the finishes. If your lot backs onto a Lake Worth Drainage District canal, that district has its own permit for work next to the canal.

Back Slabs and Patios on a Small Lot

The County's older permit brochure, revised January 2014, puts a slab that has no footers and is not for a future structure into a zoning-only review, and a driveway or repaving with no added paved area and no right-of-way work into the same group. Treat that as a lead to confirm, not a ruling, because the page is more than a decade old. Ask the Permit Center help desk, or look it up on ePZB, before you rely on it.

As concrete contractors in Seminole Manor, we draw the drainage slope on every patio quote. It shares the yard with a shed, a walk and the runoff. Our patio page covers sizing and control joints. A short walk from a front door to the driveway is a small job with a job minimum, so ask for it in the same visit as the driveway.

Atlantis Next Door, Lantana and San Castle to the East

Several neighbors of Seminole Manor answer to different permit desks. Atlantis is a city with its own Building Department and an Architectural Review Committee, and Lantana is a town with its own Building Division. San Castle is another unincorporated place that uses the County, while Hypoluxo contracts its building department to a private firm. Palm Springs asks for a notarized zoning application. Near a boundary? Ask which side of the line your lot falls on before you pick a permit desk. The paperwork, the fee schedule and the inspector all change with it. The full list sits on the service area page, with a section on which permit office covers each address.

Send Your Lot to Concrete Contractors in Seminole Manor

Send the survey, two photos of the existing slab and the street edge, and the flood zone if you have it. We check the apron against the 12 to 24 foot width and the 2 foot side line, look at the base, and write a detailed written quote before any work begins. Royal Palm Beach Concrete Co is Locally Owned & Operated. As concrete contractors in Seminole Manor, we name the County office that covers your frontage in the quote. Start on the contact page for a free written estimate, and we'll set a time to walk the lot with you.