Pre-submittal review
Internal QA across architectural, structural, civil, and MEP for completeness, code compliance, and discipline-to-discipline consistency. Mock-reviewer comment audit before filing.
Submittals · Comment Response · Jurisdiction Navigation
Cleaner submittals. Fewer revision cycles. Faster approvals.
Most permit delays are preventable. They come from missing detail, inconsistencies between disciplines, or submittals that ignore the reviewer's standard comment patterns. Apice catches those issues internally — before the package leaves the office.
98%First-Review Approval
5Primary FL Jurisdictions
FBC 23Current Code Cycle
3-5dComment Response Time
What we do
Submittal strategy and review-cycle management.
From pre-application meeting through final inspection sign-off — the technical work that controls how fast your project moves.
Jurisdiction navigation
Direct experience with City of Orlando, Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Volusia, and surrounding municipalities. Each has its own patterns, reviewers, and unwritten preferences — we know them.
Comment response
Typical response in 3-5 business days. Each comment addressed line-by-line, narrative response paired with the corresponding sheet revision, resubmittal organized for clean re-review.
Coordination meetings
Pre-application meetings, design-review board appearances, and direct reviewer coordination when project complexity warrants. We do the meeting, not just send the email.
Specialty permits
Floodplain (FBC + FEMA), environmental (FDEP), transportation (FDOT / mobility), utilities, fire-marshal, health-department food-service, and ROW permits coordinated alongside the building permit.
Permit status tracking
Active tracking of where each submittal stands in each jurisdiction's queue — so you know when things move and when they don't. Weekly status update built into every engagement.
Jurisdictions we work in regularly
Where we have direct review history.
Each jurisdiction has its own comment patterns, departmental sequence, and quirks. Volume matters here.
City of Orlando
ePlan, DRC, AOA, downtown / Mills 50 / SoDo overlays
Orange County
Unincorporated permitting, BCC pathways, Horizon West
Seminole County
Sanford, Lake Mary, Altamonte Springs municipal & county
Osceola County
Kissimmee, St. Cloud, NeoCity, regional planning council
Volusia County
Deltona, DeLand, Daytona, ECHO & Conservation overlays
Central Florida (regional)
Polk, Lake, Brevard — project-specific availability
Why this matters
A 30-day approval delay can cost more than the entire permit fee.
Construction-loan interest, schedule penalties, missed market windows, and lease-up delays all compound during permit slippage. The cost of clean submittals is small compared to three revision cycles.
- Carry-cost math — $5M loan at 9% accrues ~$37K/month during permit hold
- Revision-cycle math — each round typically adds 3-6 weeks per jurisdiction
- Schedule risk — one missed deadline can push closeout by a full quarter
- Lease-up risk — multifamily projects pay rent-loss for every month of delay
Permit-cycle expectations
Realistic timelines.
Building-permit cycles in Central Florida typically run:
- Single-family / ADU — 4-8 weeks initial; 2-4 weeks per resubmittal
- Small commercial / TI — 6-10 weeks initial; 3-5 weeks per resubmittal
- Multifamily & mid-rise — 12-20 weeks initial; 4-8 weeks per resubmittal
- Site civil & horizontal — runs in parallel, often gates building permit
Common scenarios
Three ways teams typically engage us.
01
Take the package over
Existing design team, but the permit package needs an outside review and the comment-response burden needs to land somewhere. We pick up the package and shepherd it through.
02
Stuck mid-cycle
Already submitted, multiple comment rounds in, no clear path forward. We diagnose what's actually blocking approval and reset the response strategy.
03
Fully integrated
Apice owns the design + permit package end-to-end — the version where we draw it, we know the reviewer patterns, and the cycles tend to be shortest.
Stuck in permit comments? Send us the latest cycle and we'll tell you what's actually blocking it.
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