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Submittals · Comment Response · Jurisdictions

Cleaner submittals. Fewer revision cycles.

Most permit delays are preventable. Apice catches missing detail and discipline inconsistencies internally — before the package leaves the office.

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Why permits stall

Most delays start in the package, not at the counter.

They come from missing detail, inconsistencies between disciplines, or submittals that ignore a reviewer's standard comment patterns.

Apice runs internal QA across architectural, structural, civil and MEP before filing — then answers every comment line by line, typically within 3–5 business days, with the narrative paired to the revised sheet.

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What we do

Submittal strategy and review-cycle management.

Pre-submittal review

Internal QA across architectural, structural, civil and MEP for completeness, code compliance and discipline-to-discipline consistency — with a mock-reviewer comment audit before filing.

Jurisdiction navigation

City of Orlando, Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Volusia and surrounding municipalities — each with its own patterns and reviewers.

Comment response

Each comment answered line by line, the narrative paired with the revised sheet, and the resubmittal organized for a clean re-review.

Coordination meetings

Pre-application meetings, design-review board appearances and direct reviewer coordination when the project calls for it.

Specialty permits

Floodplain, environmental (FDEP), transportation, utilities, fire marshal, health department and right-of-way permits alongside the building permit.

Permit status tracking

Where each submittal stands in each queue, with a weekly status update built into every engagement.

Jurisdictions we work in regularly

Built for Central Florida jurisdictions.

Each has its own comment patterns, departmental sequence and quirks. We plan the submittal around them.

City of OrlandoePlan, DRC, downtown, Mills 50 and SoDo overlays
Orange CountyUnincorporated permitting, Horizon West
Seminole CountySanford, Lake Mary, Altamonte Springs
Osceola CountyKissimmee, St. Cloud, NeoCity
Volusia CountyDeltona, DeLand, Daytona corridor
Central FloridaPolk, Lake, Brevard — by project
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Permit-cycle expectations

Realistic timelines, stated plainly.

Single-family / ADU4–8 wks · 2–4 per resubmittal
Small commercial / TI6–10 wks · 3–5 per resubmittal
Multifamily & mid-rise12–20 wks · 4–8 per resubmittal
Site civil & horizontalRuns in parallel, often gates the building permit

Typical Central Florida building-permit cycles: initial review, then each resubmittal. Actual timing varies by jurisdiction and project.

Common scenarios

Three ways teams typically engage us.

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Take the package over

You have a design team, but the package needs an outside review and the comment-response burden needs a home. We pick it up and shepherd it through.

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Stuck mid-cycle

Already submitted, several comment rounds in, no clear path. We diagnose what is actually blocking approval and reset the response strategy.

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Fully integrated

Apice owns the design and permit package end to end — we draw it, we know the reviewer patterns, and the cycles tend to be shortest.

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