Titusville Building Permits

Inside Titusville city limits, building permits come from the City of Titusville Building Department at 555 S Washington Avenue, which handles plan review, permitting and inspections and answers at 321-567-3760.

The department describes its job as ensuring public safety through plan reviews, permitting and inspections that enforce city code (City of Titusville Building Department page). It sits in the Community Development department; its mailing address is P.O. Box 2806, Titusville, FL 32781, and its fax is 321-267-3711. The Community Development FAQ answers Planning Department questions on zoning, parking and addressing alongside building topics (City of Titusville Community Development FAQ).

The fees are set in the city code. Ordinance No. 33-2021 created Section 6A-1, Building Inspection and Permit Fees, in the Titusville Code, ratifying fees the city first set through Resolutions 25-2016, 29-2016, 31-2016 and 32-2016 (Titusville Ordinance No. 33-2021). The Building Department fee schedule page repeats those figures (Titusville building fee schedule).

Titusville building permits are applied for through the city's BS&A Online portal: register, then email the username to BuildingPermits@Titusville.com to be linked, and request a web pin the same way.

The Titusville Building Department encourages uploading plans electronically and says that, beginning June 1st, it no longer accepts paper plans larger than 11 by 17; the page does not state the year (City of Titusville Building Department page). Permits from 2012 to the present can be searched in the portal, while older permits are requested by email. The Building Permit, Roofing Permit and Sign Permit applications are posted as PDF and DOCX files, and other forms, such as the General Owner Builder Affidavit, Fence Waiver of Liability and Permit Pick-Up Authorization, are sent on email request (City of Titusville permits, forms and policies page).

Contractors new to Titusville register first by emailing a state license or county comp card, a business tax receipt, and general liability and workers' compensation certificates naming the City of Titusville as certificate holder (City of Titusville Building Department page). An owner does not have to name contractors to start plan review, but the city FAQ says the permit will not be issued until appropriately licensed contractors are identified (City of Titusville Community Development FAQ). Builders of a new single family house should also read the finished floor elevation policy the department adopted as of February 28th, 2019.

A Titusville building permit is priced on the construction value the applicant reports, starting at $80 for work up to $1,000 and $100 for work from $1,000.01 to $2,000.

The Titusville schedule bases the fee on the actual construction cost the applicant provides; if the building official thinks it is underestimated, the applicant may show a valid contract or a professionally certified cost estimate, and otherwise the official sets the value from the International Code Council's Building Valuation Data (Titusville building fee schedule). Stand alone electrical, plumbing, mechanical, fuel gas, fence, driveway, pool and demolition permits are charged on the same valuation basis.

On top of the Table A fee, many Titusville permits carry a plan review fee equal to 50% of the building permit fee, a non refundable application fee when plan review applies, and a 2.5% state surcharge with a $4 minimum.

The state fee funds the Building Code Administrators and Inspectors Board and the Construction Industry Licensing Board Homeowners Recovery Fund under FS 468.631 and FS 553.721 (Titusville building fee schedule). Other Titusville charges on the same page include a $100 re-inspection fee for trips caused by a wrong address, a third failed call or work not ready, $75 for a temporary certificate of occupancy, $150 for a certificate of occupancy in the all others class, including apartment buildings, $25 for a duplicate permit card, $80 for a temporary power pole, and $50 per line item to re-review a plan revision. Work started before a permit is issued costs a double permit fee.

Refunds are limited. No permit fee is refunded more than 90 calendar days after the permit is issued, and administrative, application submittal and plan review fees are never refundable (Titusville Ordinance No. 33-2021). A Titusville permit renewed after it expires costs the original permit fee again, with a new application and plan submittal required if the renewal comes 6 months after expiration (Titusville building fee schedule).

Many routine Titusville jobs, including re-roofs, A/C change-outs, window and door replacements, water heater change-outs, fences and siding, still need a permit but are exempt from the plan review fee.

The Titusville schedule's exempt list also covers duct replacement, electrical service and panel change-outs that are not upgrades, patio slabs and pavers, garage door replacement, driveways and sidewalks, pool demolition, renovation of a one or two family home without reconfiguration, accessory structures of 720 square feet or less, pergolas, temporary signs, low voltage wiring of $5,000 or less, water and sewer line replacement, manufactured buildings other than foundations and site work, and other minor electrical, plumbing and mechanical repairs (Titusville building fee schedule). The wording differs slightly between sources: the ordinance text limits the accessory structure exemption to a non-habitable accessory structure of 720 square feet or less (Titusville Ordinance No. 33-2021). For anything not on the list, the building official decides whether plan review applies.

Titusville building inspections are booked through the BS&A portal, by email to buildingpermits@titusville.com, or by voicemail at 321-567-3760 giving the address, permit number, inspection date and type.

That three way choice comes from the Titusville Community Development FAQ (City of Titusville Community Development FAQ). For a specific time window, the Automated Inspection Request page says inspectors can be reached directly at 321-567-3767 between 7:00 am and 8:00 am on the morning of the scheduled inspection, and fire inspections are scheduled at (321) 567-3800, option 1 (City of Titusville automated inspection request page). Inspections outside normal hours, on weekends or holidays must be arranged two days in advance and cost $75 per hour with a three hour minimum (Titusville building fee schedule).

The FAQ also ties final inspections to site work: site plan final acceptance is required before final inspections associated with the building permit (City of Titusville Community Development FAQ).

Yes, Florida law lets a Titusville owner act as their own contractor on a one or two family home built or improved for their own use and not offered for sale or lease, provided they directly supervise all work not done by licensed contractors.

Section 489.103(7) of the Florida Statutes sets that owner-builder exemption, extends it to commercial buildings for the owner's own use at a cost not to exceed $75,000, and says that a sale or lease by the owner builder within 1 year after completion creates a presumption that the construction was undertaken for sale or lease (Section 489.103, Florida Statutes). The Titusville Building Department keeps a General Owner Builder Affidavit and an Electrical Owner Building Affidavit among its request-only forms (City of Titusville permits, forms and policies page).

Two official sources differ on the code edition. The Titusville department page's State Notice names the 2020 edition of the Florida Building Code and the 2017 National Electrical Code as the statewide minimum standards (City of Titusville Building Department page), while the Florida Building Commission's report to the Legislature lists December 31, 2023 as the effective date of the Florida Building Code, 8th Edition (2023) (Florida Building Commission annual report). The Building Department answers at 321-567-3760.

Last verified: October 21, 2026, by checking the Titusville fee schedule against Ordinance No. 33-2021, and by re-reading the Building Department, forms, inspection request and Community Development FAQ pages, Section 489.103 of the Florida Statutes and the Florida Building Commission report.