Concrete Contractors in Daytona Beach Shores, FL

Concrete Contractors in Daytona Beach Shores Work Beside the Towers

The Shores is a narrow barrier-island city, squeezed between the Atlantic Ocean and the Halifax River, with 5.5 miles of beach. It incorporated in 1960 and sits between Wilbur-by-the-Sea and Daytona Beach. Condo booms in the 1970s and 1980s, and another in the early 2000s, left about 90% of residents living in oceanfront high-rises. The housing numbers tell it: of 6,337 units, 82.1% sit in buildings of 20 or more units, and only 8.1% are single-family detached homes. So a job on the Shores is as likely to be a condo parking area or walkway as a single-family driveway.

The city's Building Division handles permits, plan review and inspections. Condo and home owners should take its advice: get approved final inspections before you make final payments to the crew. Begin before the permit is issued and the fees double, plus a $100 penalty. When the job needs a permit, we pull it. Hold the last payment on any job until that approved final inspection is in hand.

Our slab page and sidewalk page show the pours we price on island sites.

Zone V Slabs Are Thin, Unreinforced and Independent of the Building

A normal slab is built to resist cracking. In the city's coastal high hazard zone, it's built to let go. Under the flood chapter of the land development code (Sec. 10-37.5), slabs used as parking pads, landings, decks, walkways and patios beneath or next to buildings in Zone V have to be structurally independent of the building foundation, frangible, not reinforced and no more than 4 inches thick. A deck or patio below the design flood elevation also has to stand apart from the building (Sec. 10-37.6). The idea: a surge breaks the slab apart instead of dragging the building with it. The Florida Building Code adds joints both ways at most 4 feet apart.

FEMA's flood layer shows how much of the city that covers. Roughly 82% is Zone X. About 11.5% is Zone VE, with base flood elevations around 9 to 10 ft on the ocean side, and 6.6% is Zone AE at 4 to 6 ft on the river side. Zone X lots skip the frangible rule, but your lot can differ from the one next door. Call the Building Division and they'll look up your flood zone, help with an elevation certificate and visit the site, all at no charge. City flood actions also earn policyholders in the special flood hazard area a 15% discount.

Oceanfront Setbacks and the State's Control Line

On the beach side, two separate lines can limit a pour. The city draws the first one. In multifamily and hotel districts on the ocean, the coastal construction setback line sits 50 ft landward of the onsite seawall (or the seawall line), and nothing may be built or placed inside it. In single-family districts on the ocean, the setback follows the building line formed by the neighboring houses, landward of the seawall, seawall line or frontal dunes.

The state draws the second. Under F.S. 161.053, a permit to alter, excavate or construct seaward of an established Coastal Construction Control Line comes from the Department of Environmental Protection, unless an approved local code applies. For minor projects like sidewalks and driveways, FDEP can issue general permits. Is your parcel seaward of the line? Ask the Building Division and FDEP, and let your survey answer it before you design anything. The city also asks applicants to get sea turtle lighting approval from Volusia County. Retaining wall and seawall installation and replacement are on the city's permit list as well, so see our retaining wall page. The longer story is in our beachside concrete guide.

Driveways, Sidewalks and the South Atlantic Avenue Frontage

Cutting a curb or opening a new driveway onto a street takes a permit from the Building Official. At the right-of-way line a driveway runs 20 to 24 ft wide, though a single-family home can go as narrow as 12 ft. Lots under 65 ft wide get one access point. Lots 65 to 200 ft wide get two. Openings sit 12 ft apart, and none sits within 10 ft of the corner of two street right-of-way lines. Those city rules stop at streets under FDOT jurisdiction, and the code warns that Volusia County or FDOT may require a separate permit on roads they control. If your lot touches South Atlantic Avenue, ask concrete contractors in Daytona Beach Shores about it first.

South Atlantic Avenue also carries a sidewalk rule. Put a new principal building on a lot that adjoins South Atlantic Avenue and the owner installs sidewalks in the public right-of-way, at their own expense and with FDOT consent, before the certificate of occupancy. New development south of Dunlawton Avenue has the same frontage duty. Sidewalks run $8 to $13 per sq ft, so 60 ft of 4-foot-wide walk is 240 sq ft, or $1,920 to $3,120, and every job gets a free written estimate after we see the site. Driveways run $7 to $12 per sq ft, and the driveway page has the details.

Sand, Setbacks and Open-Space Math on the Island

Under the island, NRCS soil mapping shows deep, excessively drained sand. The Palm Beach-Urban land-Paola complex covers about two thirds of the city, and the Palm Beach-Paola association covers another 22%. Palm Beach sand formed in thick deposits of sand and shell fragments. Water drains fast through it, so standing water under a slab worries us less here than compaction and a firm edge. We prep the base first, then set forms. NOAA's normals at Daytona Beach International Airport name September, June, August and July as the wettest months, and hurricane season runs June 1 to November 30. We book Shores pours with that weather in mind.

On the lot itself, the single-family RSF-1 district runs 10,000 sq ft lots, 85 ft wide, with 30 ft front, 25 ft rear and 10 ft side yards. Waterfront yards are 25 ft on the river and 50 ft on the ocean. Buildings can cover 35% of the lot. Accessory structures stay out of the front and side yards but can sit in the rear yard 5 ft from the rear lot line. The code counts land with no impervious surface as open space, which means a big new patio eats into your open-space credit. Neighbors on the South Daytona, Ponce Inlet and Daytona Beach sides can call us the same way. Start with our permit guide, then talk to us, concrete contractors in Daytona Beach Shores, about the island numbers.