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Confirm the authority serving the address and the current process; no building-specific obligation, deadline or fee is established.", "status": "verified_pointer" }, { "id": "walton-location", "title": "Tourism Department", "issuer": "Walton County", "url": "https://mywaltonfl.gov/162/Tourism-Department", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-01", "locator": "Visitor Information Center; Beach Operations", "supportedClaim": "Walton County lists its tourism and beach-operations locations in Santa Rosa Beach.", "limits": "Official resource pointer only. Confirm the authority serving the address and the current process; no building-specific obligation, deadline or fee is established.", "status": "verified_pointer" }, { "id": "escambia-building", "title": "Building Services", "issuer": "Escambia County", "url": "https://myescambia.com/our-services/building-services", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-01", "locator": "Building Services", "supportedClaim": "The county publishes plan-review, permit and inspection resources for unincorporated areas and the town of Century.", "limits": "Official resource pointer only. 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Confirm the authority serving the address and the current process; no building-specific obligation, deadline or fee is established.", "status": "verified_pointer" }, { "id": "santa-rosa-development", "title": "Development Services", "issuer": "Santa Rosa County", "url": "https://www.santarosa.fl.gov/149/Development-Services", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-01", "locator": "Permitting & Building Compliance; Planning & Zoning", "supportedClaim": "The county provides development, permitting and building-compliance resource links.", "limits": "Official resource pointer only. Confirm the authority serving the address and the current process; no building-specific obligation, deadline or fee is established.", "status": "verified_pointer" }, { "id": "gulf-breeze-community", "title": "Community Services", "issuer": "City of Gulf Breeze", "url": "https://cityofgulfbreeze.us/departments/community-services/", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-01", "locator": "Community Services; Other Important Links", "supportedClaim": "The city lists planning/permitting resources and also links Santa Rosa County Building Inspections.", "limits": "Official resource pointer only. Confirm the authority serving the address and the current process; no building-specific obligation, deadline or fee is established.", "status": "verified_pointer" }, { "id": "gulf-building", "title": "Building Department", "issuer": "Gulf County", "url": "https://www.gulfcounty-fl.gov/county_government/building_department", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-01", "locator": "Building Department", "supportedClaim": "The county publishes plan-review, building-permit and inspection resources.", "limits": "Official resource pointer only. Confirm the authority serving the address and the current process; no building-specific obligation, deadline or fee is established.", "status": "verified_pointer" }, { "id": "port-st-joe-building", "title": "Building Department", "issuer": "City of Port St. Joe", "url": "https://www.cityofportstjoe.com/city-building.cfm", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-01", "locator": "Building Department; Forms and Documents", "supportedClaim": "The city publishes its own building department contact and application/form guidance.", "limits": "Official resource pointer only. Confirm the authority serving the address and the current process; no building-specific obligation, deadline or fee is established.", "status": "verified_pointer" }, { "id": "franklin-building", "title": "Building / Contractor Services", "issuer": "Franklin County", "url": "https://www.franklincountyflorida.com/county-government/planning-building/building-contractor-services/", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-01", "locator": "Building Department new website; services list", "supportedClaim": "The county links its building department website and lists plan review, permits, inspections and public permit search.", "limits": "Official resource pointer only. Confirm the authority serving the address and the current process; no building-specific obligation, deadline or fee is established.", "status": "verified_pointer" }, { "id": "apalachicola-building", "title": "Building Department", "issuer": "City of Apalachicola", "url": "https://www.cityofapalachicola.com/departments/building/", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-01", "locator": "Building Department; Permitting", "supportedClaim": "The city describes its administration of building-permit applications in coordination with planning.", "limits": "Official resource pointer only. Confirm the authority serving the address and the current process; no building-specific obligation, deadline or fee is established.", "status": "verified_pointer" }, { "id": "carrabelle-building", "title": "Building", "issuer": "City of Carrabelle", "url": "https://www.mycarrabelle.com/departments/building/", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-01", "locator": "Apply For A Building Permit", "supportedClaim": "The city links its building-permit application portal.", "limits": "Official resource pointer only. Confirm the authority serving the address and the current process; no building-specific obligation, deadline or fee is established.", "status": "verified_pointer" }, { "id": "pensacola-beach-sria", "title": "Santa Rosa Island Authority", "issuer": "Escambia County", "url": "https://myescambia.com/open-government/boards-committees/santa-rosa-island-authority", "reviewedOn": "2026-10-01", "locator": "Authority description before Members", "supportedClaim": "County page says SRIA administers the area known as Pensacola Beach and links its official website.", "limits": "Do not assume SRIA replaces county building services or infer property-specific approval requirements.", "status": "verified_pointer" } ], "pages": [ { "id": "traditional-reserves", "path": "/resources/traditional-reserves.html", "title": "Prepare a traditional reserve study", "summary": "Start with the component inventory and the scope of the study before comparing professional fees.", "serviceId": "traditional-reserve-study", "sections": [ { "id": "define-study", "title": "Define the study requested", "paragraphs": [ "An initial study, an update with a site visit and a desktop update can require different work. Ask the provider to identify the study level, inspection approach and assumptions in the written proposal. The released interval does not establish a verified level or standard building size." ], "questions": [ "Which buildings, common areas and components are included?", "Is the component inventory created, verified or supplied by the association?", "Is a site visit included, and what information is accepted without inspection?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "prepare-inputs", "title": "Prepare the working information", "paragraphs": [ "Gather the prior report and component schedule, available drawings, known replacements, maintenance records and current reserve balances. Note what is missing rather than treating a missing document as proof that work was never performed. Keep property-identifying records in the association’s own approved systems." ], "questions": [ "What has changed since the last study?", "Which components or buildings need further confirmation?", "Who will verify quantities and access assumptions?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "funding-deliverables", "title": "Compare report and funding deliverables", "paragraphs": [ "Ask how the report documents component quantities, condition assumptions, remaining useful lives and replacement-cost assumptions. Confirm the funding schedule, scenarios, presentation and questions included. Reserve contributions and repair construction are separate from the professional study fee." ], "questions": [ "Does the proposal include the full report and funding schedule?", "How will uncertainties and exclusions appear?", "Are meetings, revisions or extra visits separately priced?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "access-logistics", "title": "Resolve travel, occupied access and repeat visits", "paragraphs": [ "Before comparing professional fees, ask how site travel, occupied-unit access, common-area access and return visits are handled. Keep owner names, precise addresses, access codes and schedules in the association’s authorized systems; this public tool needs none of them. These are scope questions, not new collected fields or priced add-ons." ], "questions": [ "Is travel included, separately charged or limited to a stated service area?", "Who arranges occupied-unit access and what happens when a location is unavailable?", "Are lift/scaffold access, weather delays, repeat visits and reinspection included?", "Which inaccessible elements and assumptions will appear in the report?" ], "sourceIds": [] } ], "planningContext": { "serviceId": "traditional-reserve-study", "applicability": "Approved regional indicative planning context; scope confirmation required.", "exclusions": "No observed local fee distribution or complete project total is established." } }, { "id": "condition-surveys", "path": "/resources/condition-surveys.html", "title": "Define a condition survey", "summary": "A useful condition-survey request states the purpose, areas included and depth of investigation.", "serviceId": "condition-survey", "sections": [ { "id": "purpose", "title": "State the purpose and coverage", "paragraphs": [ "Explain the decision the survey should support, such as understanding visible deterioration or preparing a repair-planning discussion. Ask which buildings and elements will be examined. A broad title does not establish intrusive testing, full access or repair design." ], "questions": [ "Which buildings, roofs, facades, common areas or structural elements are included?", "Is the work visual, sampled or intrusive?", "What areas cannot be accessed?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "findings", "title": "Agree on the findings and next questions", "paragraphs": [ "Request a report that records the observations, limitations and recommended next steps within the agreed scope. Ask whether further testing needs a separate authorization. This worksheet cannot determine structural safety from user answers." ], "questions": [ "How are urgent findings communicated?", "Are quantities or repair concepts provided?", "What additional investigation may need separate pricing?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "separate-delivery", "title": "Separate survey from repair delivery", "paragraphs": [ "Investigation, testing, repair design, bid documents and construction administration may be later tasks. Ask for each task’s deliverables, exclusions and price separately. The current release supplies no validated combined assessment-to-repair total." ], "questions": [ "Does the survey fee include any design or bidding work?", "Who prepares the next scope after findings are reviewed?", "How will additional buildings or access equipment be priced?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "access-logistics", "title": "Resolve travel, occupied access and repeat visits", "paragraphs": [ "Before comparing professional fees, ask how site travel, occupied-unit access, common-area access and return visits are handled. Keep owner names, precise addresses, access codes and schedules in the association’s authorized systems; this public tool needs none of them. These are scope questions, not new collected fields or priced add-ons." ], "questions": [ "Is travel included, separately charged or limited to a stated service area?", "Who arranges occupied-unit access and what happens when a location is unavailable?", "Are lift/scaffold access, weather delays, repeat visits and reinspection included?", "Which inaccessible elements and assumptions will appear in the report?" ], "sourceIds": [] } ], "planningContext": { "serviceId": "condition-survey", "applicability": "Approved regional indicative planning context; scope confirmation required.", "exclusions": "No observed local fee distribution or complete project total is established." } }, { "id": "balcony-railing", "path": "/resources/balcony-railing.html", "title": "Define balcony and railing work", "summary": "Confirm the inspected elements and billable-unit basis before using the per-unit planning interval.", "serviceId": "balcony-railing", "sections": [ { "id": "inspection-basis", "title": "Identify the inspection and report basis", "paragraphs": [ "Ask whether the proposal covers an engineering assessment, certification or both. Confirm the applicable form or requirement with the authority and qualified professional. The planning reference does not establish a credential tier or coverage of every element." ], "questions": [ "Are balconies, railings, stairs, platforms and common walkways included?", "Is every element inspected or is a sample used?", "What credential, signed/sealed report or certificate is included?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "unit-basis", "title": "Resolve the unit and minimum", "paragraphs": [ "A dwelling unit, balcony, railing section and inspected location are different quantities. The released per-billable-unit interval has an unconfirmed unit definition and minimum fee. Do not treat unit-count multiplication as a property quote or a complete project budget." ], "questions": [ "What exactly counts as one billable unit?", "Is there a fixed minimum or mobilization charge?", "Are access, testing, return visits and common stairs separate?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "repair-follow-through", "title": "Plan the follow-through", "paragraphs": [ "Ask how findings and inaccessible locations are documented and whether repair recommendations are included. Keep repair design and construction outside the assessment interval unless the proposal expressly allocates them." ], "questions": [ "What does the report say about uninspected locations?", "Who prepares repair scope and design if needed?", "How is completion or a return inspection documented?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "access-logistics", "title": "Resolve travel, occupied access and repeat visits", "paragraphs": [ "Before comparing professional fees, ask how site travel, occupied-unit access, common-area access and return visits are handled. Keep owner names, precise addresses, access codes and schedules in the association’s authorized systems; this public tool needs none of them. These are scope questions, not new collected fields or priced add-ons." ], "questions": [ "Is travel included, separately charged or limited to a stated service area?", "Who arranges occupied-unit access and what happens when a location is unavailable?", "Are lift/scaffold access, weather delays, repeat visits and reinspection included?", "Which inaccessible elements and assumptions will appear in the report?" ], "sourceIds": [] } ], "planningContext": { "serviceId": "balcony-railing", "applicability": "Approved regional indicative planning context; scope confirmation required.", "exclusions": "No observed local fee distribution or complete project total is established." } }, { "id": "sirs", "path": "/resources/sirs.html", "title": "Prepare a SIRS scope discussion", "summary": "Keep structural reserve planning distinct from milestone inspection and traditional reserve work.", "serviceId": "sirs", "sections": [ { "id": "different-jobs", "title": "Identify the job each document performs", "paragraphs": [ "DBPR describes milestone inspection as structural inspection and SIRS as a budget-planning tool for specified association-maintained components. Similar inputs or a bundled proposal do not make the deliverables interchangeable." ], "questions": [ "Which SIRS components and buildings are covered?", "Is a milestone inspection included as a separately identified task?", "What reserve-planning deliverables are supplied?" ], "sourceIds": [ "dbpr-distinction", "florida-milestone", "florida-sirs" ] }, { "id": "prepare-sirs", "title": "Prepare the scope information", "paragraphs": [ "Gather available drawings, prior studies and current component information. Ask the provider what must be confirmed and what assumptions affect the scope. This resource does not calculate a due date or decide whether a building is subject to a statutory requirement." ], "questions": [ "Are drawings available and adequate for the requested scope?", "Which visits, access arrangements or additional services are included?", "Who confirms current statutory and local requirements?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "bundle", "title": "Keep bundles understandable", "paragraphs": [ "Request separate deliverables and fee allocation for SIRS, traditional reserves, milestone inspection and any later repair work. An unallocated bundled total should remain unallocated in comparisons." ], "questions": [ "Can the provider identify each service’s fee and exclusions?", "What assumptions are shared, and what work remains distinct?", "What happens if further inspection or testing is needed?" ], "sourceIds": [] } ], "planningContext": { "serviceId": "sirs", "applicability": "Approved regional indicative planning context; scope confirmation required.", "exclusions": "No observed local fee distribution or complete project total is established." } }, { "id": "proposal-comparison", "path": "/resources/proposal-comparison.html", "title": "Compare engineering proposals", "summary": "Compare the work offered before comparing the bottom-line fee.", "serviceId": null, "sections": [ { "id": "comparison-grid", "title": "Use the same comparison columns", "paragraphs": [ "Prepare a local worksheet with one column per proposal. Record the service, study level, buildings/elements, sampling, credential, access/testing, deliverables, meetings, schedule, reimbursables and exclusions. Use unknown when a proposal does not say. This website does not collect bids or identifiable property records." ], "questions": [ "Are all providers pricing the same service and inspection depth?", "What access, quantities or drawings have they assumed?", "Which fees are fixed, estimated, optional or excluded?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "bundled-fees", "title": "Separate a bundled amount", "paragraphs": [ "Ask for allocations across reserve study, SIRS, milestone phases, testing, design and administration. If no allocation exists, compare the bundle as a bundle. Do not attribute its whole value to one component or call several bids on one property independent market transactions." ], "questions": [ "Which services are included in the total?", "Are later phases optional or already authorized?", "Can excluded and reimbursable charges be itemized?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "board-choice", "title": "Prepare a board decision", "paragraphs": [ "Show the comparable scope, unresolved questions and proposed decision. The planning interval is discussion context, not a fairness test, approved quote or recommendation of a provider." ], "questions": [ "What needs clarification before selection?", "Which scope difference explains a fee difference?", "What must the board authorize and what remains open?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "access-logistics", "title": "Resolve travel, occupied access and repeat visits", "paragraphs": [ "Before comparing professional fees, ask how site travel, occupied-unit access, common-area access and return visits are handled. Keep owner names, precise addresses, access codes and schedules in the association’s authorized systems; this public tool needs none of them. These are scope questions, not new collected fields or priced add-ons." ], "questions": [ "Is travel included, separately charged or limited to a stated service area?", "Who arranges occupied-unit access and what happens when a location is unavailable?", "Are lift/scaffold access, weather delays, repeat visits and reinspection included?", "Which inaccessible elements and assumptions will appear in the report?" ], "sourceIds": [] } ], "planningContext": null }, { "id": "report-to-repair", "path": "/resources/report-to-repair.html", "title": "Move from an assessment report to repair", "summary": "Organize possible project stages and their handoffs without inventing a combined budget.", "serviceId": null, "sections": [ { "id": "stage-map", "title": "Map the work", "paragraphs": [ "Possible stages are assessment, further investigation/testing where needed, repair scope/design, procurement/bid comparison, construction administration and closeout. The project’s qualified professionals and authority determine the actual path; these are planning stages, not automatic requirements." ], "questions": [], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "stage-deliverables", "title": "Specify the handoff", "paragraphs": [ "For each stage, record the deliverable, responsible role, decision needed, information carried forward and exclusions. Keep findings and assumptions visible. Design documents, contractor pricing and professional administration are separate work products." ], "questions": [ "What is approved now and what needs a later decision?", "Who verifies quantities and defines repair details?", "What permit or authority questions remain unresolved?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "budget-boundary", "title": "Keep the budget boundary visible", "paragraphs": [ "The current evidence release provides no validated fee for testing, repair design, bidding, construction administration, construction or a combined project. Record those amounts as unknown until a defined proposal supplies them. Do not add an arbitrary percentage or extrapolate a SIRS interval." ], "questions": [ "Which stage needs a separately priced scope?", "Are construction, contingency and professional fees separated?", "What evidence will support closeout and remaining questions?" ], "sourceIds": [] } ], "planningContext": null }, { "id": "cam-handover", "path": "/resources/cam-handover.html", "title": "Prepare a CAM handover and board packet", "summary": "Make the known facts, missing information and next decisions easy to carry forward.", "serviceId": null, "sections": [ { "id": "packet", "title": "Use a short decision packet", "paragraphs": [ "Include the selected service/task, supplied readiness answers, unresolved records, relevant planning context, scope questions and source edition. Label supplied answers separately from verified evidence. The local readiness tool can print or export its bounded public-input record; fuller association records stay in approved local systems." ], "questions": [ "What decision is being requested?", "Which documents are available, missing or unverified?", "Who owns each unanswered question?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "sources", "title": "Keep evidence attached", "paragraphs": [ "Preserve the exact public source links, review date and edition with the packet. The Permeate GitHub repository mirrors the same evidence; it is not a second independent price source. A public-record search that returns nothing does not prove noncompliance." ], "questions": [], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "handover", "title": "Leave a usable handover", "paragraphs": [ "Record the next action, responsible role and the information needed to complete it. Keep prior assumptions and later corrections visible. This worksheet does not issue a safety, legal-compliance or quote-fairness verdict." ], "questions": [ "What can the next CAM continue without repeating research?", "Which question requires a qualified professional or authority?", "What source or scope change would require a new packet?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "access-logistics", "title": "Resolve travel, occupied access and repeat visits", "paragraphs": [ "Before comparing professional fees, ask how site travel, occupied-unit access, common-area access and return visits are handled. Keep owner names, precise addresses, access codes and schedules in the association’s authorized systems; this public tool needs none of them. These are scope questions, not new collected fields or priced add-ons." ], "questions": [ "Is travel included, separately charged or limited to a stated service area?", "Who arranges occupied-unit access and what happens when a location is unavailable?", "Are lift/scaffold access, weather delays, repeat visits and reinspection included?", "Which inaccessible elements and assumptions will appear in the report?" ], "sourceIds": [] } ], "planningContext": null }, { "id": "jurisdictions", "path": "/resources/jurisdictions.html", "title": "Find Northwest Florida official resource channels", "summary": "Use the authority serving the address and distinguish source pointers from building-specific conclusions.", "serviceId": null, "sections": [ { "id": "jurisdiction", "title": "Confirm the authority first", "paragraphs": [ "A ZIP or community name selects regional planning context here. It does not establish the government serving a particular address. Verify jurisdiction in the association’s own records and with the relevant building authority before relying on a county or municipal instruction. This guide reviewed resource pointers on October 1, 2026; it has no deadline engine." ], "questions": [], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "coverage-boundary", "title": "Regional resources and the pricing boundary", "paragraphs": [ "The released planning evidence covers Bay, Walton and Okaloosa. The western and eastern official pointers below extend general CAM preparation and source navigation; they do not extend the released pricing geography. No county, community or ZIP-specific observed price is established here.", "For Pensacola, Pensacola Beach, Perdido Key, Navarre, Gulf Breeze, Port St. Joe, Cape San Blas, Apalachicola, St. George Island and Carrabelle, use this guide to identify the serving authority and prepare scope questions. A locality absent from the released lookup remains unresolved for that lookup; its price and legal-applicability status must not be invented." ], "questions": [ "Which official authority serves the address?", "Is the requested record held by a county, municipality or another public body?", "What does the source establish, and what is still unknown?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "santa-rosa-beach", "title": "Santa Rosa Beach and 30A: distinguish Walton from Santa Rosa County", "paragraphs": [ "Walton County’s official Tourism Department lists its Santa Rosa Beach locations. Use Walton’s building-resource channel as a starting point for Santa Rosa Beach/30A work, then verify the authority serving the specific address. Santa Rosa County’s development channel is a separate source; a similar name is not a jurisdiction match.", "For a multiple-building or occupied-community scope, clarify the elements, drawings, access arrangements and deliverables rather than assuming the locality determines the fee." ], "questions": [ "Which buildings and common areas are covered?", "Can occupied-unit access be coordinated without collecting names or access codes in this tool?", "Are travel, access equipment and return visits separately priced?" ], "sourceIds": [ "walton-location", "walton-building" ] }, { "id": "fort-walton", "title": "Fort Walton Beach: municipal and county channels", "paragraphs": [ "Fort Walton Beach publishes its own Building & Inspections resource. Okaloosa County and Destin also maintain separate channels. A Fort Walton Beach postal label or nearby community name does not by itself choose the serving government. Start with the municipal and county resources and resolve that question before routing a report or permit inquiry." ], "questions": [ "Is this address within the city’s service jurisdiction?", "Which report, permit or inspection record is needed?", "Who confirms the current filing and follow-up process?" ], "sourceIds": [ "fwb-building", "okaloosa-building", "destin-building" ] }, { "id": "west-escambia", "title": "Western Panhandle: Escambia, Pensacola, Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key", "paragraphs": [ "Escambia County Building Services states that its plan-review, permit and inspection services cover unincorporated areas and the town of Century. Pensacola publishes a separate city Building Inspections channel. A Pensacola mailing address therefore does not automatically choose the city channel.", "For Pensacola Beach or Perdido Key work, begin with county resources and verify any additional land, island, planning or coastal review channel with the serving authority. This guide does not establish an exclusive permitting route, current coastal requirement or island-approval trigger.", "Escambia County’s Santa Rosa Island Authority page says the authority administers the area known as Pensacola Beach and links its official website. Use it as an additional resource channel; this does not establish that the authority replaces county building services or that an approval is required for a particular property." ], "questions": [ "Is the address in the city or an unincorporated area?", "Does the task require a separate planning or island-authority clarification?", "Are site access, travel and repeat visits included in the professional scope?" ], "sourceIds": [ "escambia-building", "pensacola-building", "pensacola-beach-sria" ] }, { "id": "west-santa-rosa", "title": "Santa Rosa County, Navarre and Gulf Breeze", "paragraphs": [ "Santa Rosa County Development Services links permitting/building-compliance and planning resources. Gulf Breeze Community Services publishes city planning/permitting information and links county building inspections. Use both sources to clarify the applicable handoff; the city page does not prove that every building function is performed exclusively by the municipality.", "For Navarre or Navarre Beach preparation, confirm the serving county or municipal channel and any project-specific review. These resource pointers establish no locally observed fee or compliance conclusion." ], "questions": [ "Which part of the process is handled by the city and which by the county?", "What scope or records must be reviewed before the next stage?", "Are occupied access and limited availability likely to require separately priced visits?" ], "sourceIds": [ "santa-rosa-development", "gulf-breeze-community" ] }, { "id": "east-gulf", "title": "Eastern Panhandle: Gulf County, Port St. Joe and Cape San Blas", "paragraphs": [ "Gulf County publishes its building department’s plan-review, permit and inspection resources. Port St. Joe has a separate municipal Building Department page with forms and contact guidance. For Port St. Joe or Cape San Blas preparation, resolve county-versus-city jurisdiction and any project-specific coastal or planning question before relying on an instruction.", "Separate assessment, design, procurement, construction administration and construction expenses. This expanded resource coverage supplies no validated planning interval or combined project budget for these places." ], "questions": [ "Which department serves the address and requested work?", "Which records and drawings support the proposed scope?", "What travel, site access and return-visit assumptions belong in the proposal?" ], "sourceIds": [ "gulf-building", "port-st-joe-building" ] }, { "id": "east-franklin", "title": "Franklin County, Apalachicola, St. George Island and Carrabelle", "paragraphs": [ "Franklin County links its building department site and public permit-search resources. Apalachicola describes its municipal administration of building-permit applications; Carrabelle links its own building-permit portal. For St. George Island or a nearby community, use the county source as a starting point and verify the serving authority.", "A search entry is not the full engineering report and a missing entry is not proof of noncompliance. Record whether a result is a permit, inspection, submitted report or summary; clarify gaps with the relevant authority. No observed local price or statutory deadline is supplied by this guide." ], "questions": [ "Is the address served by the county or a municipality?", "Is the record a full document or only a portal index?", "Who resolves uncertain scope or missing report information?" ], "sourceIds": [ "franklin-building", "apalachicola-building", "carrabelle-building" ] }, { "id": "bay-pcb", "title": "Bay County and Panama City Beach", "paragraphs": [ "Bay County links its building-permit portal and active permit search. Panama City Beach has a separate milestone program, report-submittal form and permit/inspection search. Use the municipal channel when it is the verified authority for the address; do not apply its instructions throughout Bay County." ], "questions": [ "Which authority serves the address?", "Is the record a report, summary, permit or inspection entry?", "Where should a missing or unclear submission be clarified?" ], "sourceIds": [ "bay-permits", "pcb-milestone", "pcb-submittal", "pcb-permits" ] }, { "id": "walton", "title": "Walton County", "paragraphs": [ "The Building Division publishes permit, inspection and public-record/permit-search pathways. This bounded review did not establish a complete public condominium milestone roster or fee dataset. A missing web result remains unresolved rather than proving that a study or inspection was never completed." ], "questions": [ "Which department holds the specific record?", "Is a permit search sufficient, or is the submitted report needed?", "Does a municipal authority serve the address instead?" ], "sourceIds": [ "walton-building" ] }, { "id": "okaloosa-destin", "title": "Okaloosa County and Destin", "paragraphs": [ "Okaloosa Growth Management publishes a county milestone-report submission pointer and development-record links. Destin separately publishes municipal building-permit and inspection resources. This guide does not establish a Destin-specific milestone route or reproduce county age/coastline rules. Confirm the applicable process with the serving authority." ], "questions": [ "Is the address served by the county or a municipality?", "What is the current submission route for the required document?", "Is the available record a complete report or only a portal entry?" ], "sourceIds": [ "okaloosa-building", "destin-building" ] }, { "id": "state-resources", "title": "Florida context", "paragraphs": [ "DBPR provides milestone/SIRS explanatory resources. The Legislature publishes the milestone and condominium SIRS provisions. Consult the complete current sources and qualified advice for applicability; these links alone do not establish a building’s obligations." ], "questions": [], "sourceIds": [ "dbpr-distinction", "florida-milestone", "florida-sirs" ] } ], "planningContext": null }, { "id": "milestone-inspections", "path": "/resources/milestone-inspections.html", "title": "Northwest Florida Condo Milestone Inspection Guide", "summary": "Prepare a condominium milestone inspection request: confirm the serving authority, distinguish SIRS, clarify inspection phases and keep fees unpriced.", "serviceId": null, "sections": [ { "id": "purpose", "title": "Separate milestone inspection from reserve planning", "paragraphs": [ "The Florida milestone statute defines a structural inspection purpose. DBPR distinguishes milestone inspection from the reserve-budget planning performed through SIRS. A proposal offering both should name the separate deliverables; one report title does not establish that both tasks are covered.", "Use the complete current statute, the serving building authority and qualified advice to resolve applicability and timing. This guide does not calculate an inspection deadline, certify compliance or decide whether a particular building requires inspection." ], "questions": [ "Is the requested task a milestone inspection, SIRS, a condition survey or a separately described combination?", "Who will confirm applicability and current instructions for the association?" ], "sourceIds": [ "florida-milestone", "dbpr-distinction" ] }, { "id": "authority", "title": "Confirm the recipient before arranging the inspection", "paragraphs": [ "Panama City Beach publishes its own milestone program and report-submittal form. Okaloosa County publishes a milestone-report submission pointer through Growth Management. These are distinct channels: neither instruction should be applied across Northwest Florida solely because a ZIP or postal label looks familiar.", "Keep the exact address in the association’s approved records. Ask the relevant department to confirm the receiving authority, current document instructions and the way receipt or follow-up can be checked. Public permit and inspection searches can help locate records but do not establish the full engineering-report history." ], "questions": [ "Which authority serves the address?", "Does it need the report, summary, submission form or another specifically identified document?", "Who keeps the submission receipt and records any follow-up?" ], "sourceIds": [ "pcb-milestone", "pcb-submittal", "pcb-permits", "okaloosa-building" ] }, { "id": "proposal", "title": "Define phases, access and report deliverables", "paragraphs": [ "Panama City Beach’s milestone guidance explains inspection phases. Ask the qualified professional to identify the proposed phase, investigation approach, access assumptions and deliverables in writing. An initial proposal should state how any further investigation, testing or return visit would be authorized and priced.", "Gather available drawings, prior reports, repair and maintenance records, and known access limitations. Mark missing records as unresolved. Coordinate occupied-unit and common-area access privately; names, access codes and precise schedules do not belong in this public resource." ], "questions": [ "Which buildings and elements are included, and which cannot be accessed?", "Are travel, lifts or scaffolding, weather delays and repeat visits included or separately charged?", "Who coordinates occupied access and what happens after an unsuccessful visit?", "What findings, limitations, report and summary will be delivered?" ], "sourceIds": [ "pcb-milestone" ] }, { "id": "price-boundary", "title": "Keep milestone fees and later repair costs separate", "paragraphs": [ "The current evidence release provides no validated milestone-inspection planning interval. Keep that amount unknown until a defined proposal supplies it. A SIRS, reserve-study or condition-survey interval must not be substituted.", "Compare separately identified inspection phases, further investigation, design, construction administration and construction. A combined proposal with no allocation remains a combined proposal; its total cannot establish an individual milestone fee." ], "questions": [ "Which services have separately stated fees?", "What additional scope needs a later board decision?", "What is included now and what remains unpriced?" ], "sourceIds": [] } ], "planningContext": null }, { "id": "western-panhandle", "path": "/resources/western-panhandle.html", "title": "Pensacola and Navarre Condo Engineering Preparation", "summary": "Condo engineering preparation in Escambia and Santa Rosa: distinguish city, county and island channels, organize records and clarify occupied access.", "serviceId": null, "sections": [ { "id": "escambia-routing", "title": "Pensacola city, county and beach channels", "paragraphs": [ "Escambia County Building Services states that it serves unincorporated areas and the town of Century. The City of Pensacola publishes a separate Building Inspections channel. Resolve the serving authority from the property records and relevant department before directing a permit, inspection or report inquiry; a Pensacola mailing label does not settle that choice.", "Escambia County’s Santa Rosa Island Authority page identifies its administration of Pensacola Beach. For beach work, use that as an additional resource channel and clarify any handoff with county Building Services. It does not establish that the island authority replaces building services or that a specific approval is required. For Perdido Key preparation, start with the county resource and confirm the actual jurisdiction rather than borrowing Pensacola Beach instructions." ], "questions": [ "Is the inquiry for a city address, an unincorporated address or a beach location?", "Which department holds the record requested?", "Does a separate planning or island channel need clarification for the proposed work?" ], "sourceIds": [ "escambia-building", "pensacola-building", "pensacola-beach-sria" ] }, { "id": "santa-rosa-routing", "title": "Navarre and Gulf Breeze: clarify the handoff", "paragraphs": [ "Santa Rosa County Development Services provides permitting, building-compliance and planning resources. Gulf Breeze Community Services provides city planning/permitting information and also links county Building Inspections. Ask which part of the proposed work each department handles rather than assuming one source represents the whole process.", "For Navarre or Navarre Beach, use the county resource as a starting point and confirm the serving authority and project-specific process. Santa Rosa Beach in Walton County is a different locality; its similar name is not a match for Santa Rosa County Development Services." ], "questions": [ "Which city or county department receives this inquiry?", "Is the next step a records request, engineering proposal, planning clarification or permit inquiry?", "What document or reference should travel with the handoff?" ], "sourceIds": [ "santa-rosa-development", "gulf-breeze-community", "walton-location" ] }, { "id": "western-records", "title": "Prepare a record request that identifies the missing document", "paragraphs": [ "Write down whether the association needs a permit entry, inspection result, submitted report, summary or available drawing. A portal index can be useful without containing the full report. Ask the identified custodian where a missing document can be requested; an empty search does not prove it was never completed.", "Keep a short handover record with the source consulted, the question sent, the receiving role and what is still unresolved. Confirm the current process directly rather than treating this source-navigation guide as a property-specific ruling." ], "questions": [ "What decision will the requested document support?", "Is a portal result enough, or is the underlying document needed?", "Who will follow up and keep the response in the association’s approved system?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "western-logistics", "title": "Make the inspection trip and access plan explicit", "paragraphs": [ "Ask providers to state the travel assumptions, access window and consequences of unavailable units or common areas. Identify responsibility for arranging equipment, access coordination and any return visit. These are proposal questions, not regional surcharges established by evidence.", "This western guidance does not extend the released Bay, Walton and Okaloosa pricing or ZIP dataset. No observed Escambia, Pensacola, Santa Rosa, Navarre or Gulf Breeze fee is established. Keep local and milestone amounts unknown unless a defined proposal supplies them." ], "questions": [ "Is travel included or separately charged?", "Who coordinates occupied access and how is a failed access attempt handled?", "Are weather delays, access equipment and repeat visits included?", "Which service deliverable is each quoted amount tied to?" ], "sourceIds": [] } ], "planningContext": null }, { "id": "central-panhandle", "path": "/resources/central-panhandle.html", "title": "Bay, Walton and Okaloosa Condo Engineering Guide", "summary": "Prepare condo engineering work in Bay, Walton and Okaloosa: route authority questions, distinguish Santa Rosa Beach and compare clearly defined scopes.", "serviceId": null, "sections": [ { "id": "bay-city-county", "title": "Bay County and Panama City Beach are separate channels", "paragraphs": [ "Bay County publishes building-permit and active permit-search resources. Panama City Beach separately publishes milestone guidance, a report-submittal form and permit/inspection search. Confirm which authority serves the address before using the city’s report instructions; Panama City Beach guidance is not a county-wide rule.", "Identify the document actually needed. A permit search entry, inspection result, report and report summary serve different information needs. Ask the relevant custodian how to obtain an underlying document when the index is insufficient." ], "questions": [ "Which authority receives the report or permit question?", "Is the available result a full report, summary or portal entry?", "Who keeps the response and submission receipt?" ], "sourceIds": [ "bay-permits", "pcb-milestone", "pcb-submittal", "pcb-permits" ] }, { "id": "walton-name", "title": "Santa Rosa Beach and 30A: use the Walton starting point", "paragraphs": [ "Walton County lists official tourism and beach-operations locations in Santa Rosa Beach. Its Building Division publishes permit, inspection and public-record pathways. Use those Walton resources as the starting point for Santa Rosa Beach and 30A preparation, then confirm the authority for the actual address.", "Santa Rosa County is a separate government. Similar names do not justify routing a Santa Rosa Beach inquiry through its development channel. The Walton source does not establish a complete public milestone roster or professional-fee dataset; a missing online result remains unresolved." ], "questions": [ "Which department holds the report or drawing sought?", "What does the available permit history actually establish?", "Which unanswered question requires the serving authority?" ], "sourceIds": [ "walton-location", "walton-building" ] }, { "id": "okaloosa-municipal", "title": "Destin, Fort Walton Beach and Okaloosa County", "paragraphs": [ "Okaloosa Growth Management publishes a milestone-report submission pointer and development-record links. Destin and Fort Walton Beach publish their own building and inspection resources. Confirm county versus municipal jurisdiction before selecting the channel; a Destin or Fort Walton Beach postal label does not settle it.", "This guide does not infer a municipal milestone route from a generic permitting page or reproduce county age, coastline or deadline rules. Ask the serving authority for its current instructions and record what was confirmed." ], "questions": [ "Does the county or a municipality serve this address?", "Where does the specific report, permit or records question belong?", "What document is needed for the next board decision?" ], "sourceIds": [ "okaloosa-building", "destin-building", "fwb-building" ] }, { "id": "central-scopes", "title": "Compare service scope before comparing the planning interval", "paragraphs": [ "The published planning evidence is a Bay, Walton and Okaloosa pilot. It supplies qualified regional context, not observed county, community or ZIP-specific fees. Local authority guidance does not turn a planning interval into a quote, fairness finding or complete project budget.", "Clarify buildings, components, study level, site access, travel and deliverables. Ask whether occupied-unit coordination, access equipment, weather delays and return visits are included. Keep reserve studies, SIRS, milestone inspection, condition assessment and later repair work separately described; record unsupported amounts as unknown." ], "questions": [ "Are the proposals for the same service, coverage and deliverables?", "Who arranges access, and are additional visits separately charged?", "Which fees and construction costs remain outside the quoted scope?", "What evidence and unanswered questions will go into the board packet?" ], "sourceIds": [] } ], "planningContext": null }, { "id": "eastern-panhandle", "path": "/resources/eastern-panhandle.html", "title": "Gulf and Franklin Condo Engineering Preparation", "summary": "Prepare condo engineering work in Gulf and Franklin: separate county and municipal channels, request usable records and clarify travel and access assumptions.", "serviceId": null, "sections": [ { "id": "gulf-county-city", "title": "Port St. Joe and Cape San Blas: identify the authority", "paragraphs": [ "Gulf County publishes its building department’s plan-review, permit and inspection resources. Port St. Joe publishes a separate municipal Building Department page with forms and contact guidance. Confirm county versus city jurisdiction for the address before sending a report, permit or records inquiry.", "For Cape San Blas preparation, begin with the county channel and clarify any project-specific planning or coastal review question. This guide establishes no exclusive approval route or coastal trigger. Ask the relevant authority to identify the current process for the work proposed." ], "questions": [ "Which department serves the address and the requested work?", "Is the inquiry about an existing record or a proposed project?", "Which current form or contact has the authority confirmed?" ], "sourceIds": [ "gulf-building", "port-st-joe-building" ] }, { "id": "franklin-city-island", "title": "Franklin County, St. George Island and municipal channels", "paragraphs": [ "Franklin County links its building department and lists plan review, permits, inspections and public permit search. Apalachicola describes its municipal administration of building-permit applications; Carrabelle links its own permit portal. Resolve the county or municipal channel rather than treating one portal as the regional record system.", "For St. George Island, use the county resource as a starting point and confirm the serving authority. A locality name alone establishes neither a statutory deadline nor the approvals needed for a particular property." ], "questions": [ "Is the address served by the county or a municipality?", "Who holds the specific report or permit record?", "Does another planning channel need clarification before the next stage?" ], "sourceIds": [ "franklin-building", "apalachicola-building", "carrabelle-building" ] }, { "id": "eastern-record-handoff", "title": "Carry the underlying evidence into the scope discussion", "paragraphs": [ "Identify whether a search result is a permit, inspection entry, report or summary. Ask the relevant custodian for the underlying document when a portal index cannot answer the association’s question. A missing entry is not proof of noncompliance or proof that engineering work was never performed.", "Prepare available drawings, previous engineering reports, repairs and maintenance records for the professional scope discussion. Keep missing or unverified items visible and leave the follow-up with a named responsible role in the association’s own handover record." ], "questions": [ "Which document is needed to make the next decision?", "What assumptions must the professional confirm through inspection?", "Who will resolve missing records before the scope is finalized?" ], "sourceIds": [] }, { "id": "eastern-procurement", "title": "Separate the travel plan, engineering stages and unknown amounts", "paragraphs": [ "Ask how travel, occupied-unit access, equipment and repeat visits are included or charged. State who coordinates access and how unavailable areas, weather delays or additional investigations change the scope. A locality name does not establish a surcharge or an included travel radius.", "No validated planning interval is supplied for Gulf or Franklin locations by the current released pricing dataset. Separate assessment, testing, design, procurement, construction administration and construction rather than deriving a combined budget from a different service or geography." ], "questions": [ "What is included in the initial trip and what needs a return visit?", "Are lift/scaffold arrangements and occupied access responsibilities explicit?", "Which engineering stage and deliverable does each fee cover?", "What remains unknown until separately scoped and priced?" ], "sourceIds": [] } ], "planningContext": null } ] }