Demolition permits in Osceola County
Permitting is where residential demolition actually stalls, and every city inside the county
runs its own building department with its own forms and its own clock. Here is where each one
submits. We pull these ourselves on jobs where we are the contractor of record.
Checked against official county and city pages on 2026-10-13. Fees and turnaround change
without notice, so confirm with the building department before relying on any line of this.
We publish it because nobody else does, not as a substitute for the county.
Historic review in Osceola County
A structure inside a historic district or overlay cannot be permitted for
demolition on the building permit alone. It goes to a review board first, and that board meets
on its own calendar. This is the most common reason a teardown slips a month.
- City of Kissimmee. Reviewed by the Kissimmee Historic Preservation Board. Kissimmee LDC (Municode Ch. 14-3) gives the Historic Preservation Board powers over Historic Preservation Overlay districts and landmarks, with major and minor Certificates of Appropriateness (sec. 14-3-37). Development Services staffs the board. A Kissimmee…
- City of St. Cloud. Reviewed by the St. Cloud Historic Preservation Board (HPB). Ordinance 2016-55 created the Historic Preservation Overlay District and the HPB, which meets about monthly (no July or December meetings). District boundary map: https://www.stcloudfl.gov/DocumentCenter/View/32159/Historic-Preservation-District-Boundary-Map.…
What is required on nearly every job
- Notice of commencement, recorded, not just signed
- Owner authorization to permit, notarized
- Survey or site plan marking the structure
- Asbestos survey and the FDEP notice, at least 10 working days before demolition
- Utility disconnect letters for electric, gas and water or sewer
- Septic abandonment through the Health Department where the lot is on septic
Permitting, asbestos abatement, septic and well abandonment and tree mitigation are quoted
separately or handled by others. That is printed on every proposal rather than turning up
later as a change order.