The outside westbound lane of Okeechobee Boulevard will be closed for three nights for milling and repaving from South Dixie Highway to Tamarind Avenue. Work will begin on Monday, April 14, 2025, and be completed by Thursday morning, April 17, 2025. Crews will close the lane each night at 8 p.m. and reopen it at 6 a.m.
The Building Division of Development Services is tasked with processing and reviewing building permit applications and overseeing inspections for building code compliance to ensure the health and life safety of residents and first responders. Department staff also process business tax receipt applications and handle public records requests for department records.
Check out our quick links just below, as well as our main pages below that. Our quick links start with a Research Tool that allows you to check your proposed construction project against zoning code and get an idea of all the permits that will be required. Our EPL Guide & Info page is a how-to on using our permitting portal, which is our Civic Access portal where you will submit planning applications or apply for permits. Click on a tab below to learn more. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us using the menu to the right.
Thinking about a construction project and you're not sure where to start? Check out our Planning & Permitting Research Tool portal. This platform lets you plan out your proposed project by first checking if what you want to do meets current Zoning allowances, and then walks you through your potential project's scope of work and provides you with a list of the permits that would be required and provides a rough estimate of the permitting fees. At the end, create a report to save and use as a guide. NOTE: This guide is not an actual permit application. When you're ready to start your project and you want to submit a permit application, move into our Civic Access permitting portal.
EPL (Enterprise Permitting & Licensing) is our 100% digital online permitting platform while the Civic Access portal is the customer-facing side of EPL. Our EPL Guide and Information page contains PDF guides as well as Youtube walkthroughs on how to register for and use the Civic Access portal. We highly recommend spending some time getting to know the portal before you begin your permit application.
Use the Civic Access portal to manage your project - apply for permits, check your permit status, pay fees, resubmit for plan review, download your permit card and approved plans, schedule inspections, and more. In order to use the portal you must first register a profile. Already familiar with EPL? Click the link below to jump directly to the portal.
For general assistance, you may contact us at:
Main Phone
561-805-6700
Main Email
ds@wpb.org
Plans Examiner On Call at:
Phone 561-805-6727
Permit Librarians/Plan Review Coordinators at:
Email
permitlibrarian@wpb.org
For assistance with expired permits:
expiredpermits@wpb.org
For business tax assistance:
businesstax@wpb.org
TTY 800-955-8771
Building Staff Directory
Submit a Public Records Request