Concrete Driveway Contractors in Daytona Beach, FL

Concrete driveway contractors in Daytona Beach and who may build your apron

Hiring an installer for the street edge has a catch. Under city Code Section 86-104, you own the sidewalk, curb, gutter and driveway apron in the public right-of-way in front of your lot. Yet the same section lets only the city, its contractors, or a person holding current written permission from the city manager do that work. That permission takes detailed plans approved by the public works director, a contractor who takes responsibility for the work and an owner liability agreement.

So a new driveway here is two jobs: the slab on your lot, and the apron where it meets the street. The city's right-of-way application says all work in the right-of-way needs a permit. The code also asks for a non-communications facilities permit before anyone cuts a surface or digs there for any reason. Mailboxes, sod and residential irrigation are exempt. We start the paperwork with the Permits and Licensing office and ask which city desk takes your apron request, then build the apron to the spec on our driveway page once the city says yes. Everything else we pour in town is on the Daytona Beach hub.

Twelve to twenty feet at the curb, and how many openings your frontage buys

For a house, duplex or small residential lot with fewer than three units, an entrance here runs 12 to 20 feet wide, measured along the right-of-way line. A traffic engineering study can justify something else, but don't count on one. Your frontage sets how many driveway openings you get. An interior lot under 75 feet wide gets one. A corner lot under 95 feet of frontage gets one on each street. Every additional 100 feet of frontage earns another.

Some corner lots can take a second driveway. An interior lot under 75 feet can't. Measure before you sketch. Take a 16 foot wide, 30 foot long driveway: 480 square feet, priced at $3,360 to $5,760 in our range. The code won't let you widen the entrance past 20 feet at the street.

The grass strip between sidewalk and street is a separate question. Pavers there need a recorded license agreement with the city, and upkeep becomes yours. Our stamped concrete versus pavers guide compares the options.

The bowl, the AH zones and why we pitch every slab away from the garage

In May 2009 the FDOT Nova Canal overtopped and backed up through its outfalls, and 790 structures took water, according to the Daytona Beach flood page. The low area bounded by Nova Road, Orange Avenue, U.S. 1 and Beville Road is called "the bowl." FEMA's current maps for the city date to September 29, 2017. About 57 percent of the 122 sample points on that map fall in a special flood hazard area. Some of those are AH zones. They're shallow ponding areas with base flood elevations of 23 to 27 feet, nothing to do with the coast.

Because of all that, we treat a driveway here as a drainage job before it's a pour. Florida's residential code wants garage floors sloped toward a drain or the main vehicle door. We set the grades to carry water off the concrete, away from the house and toward the street. The under-$7,500 permit exemption is void on any property partly in a flood hazard area, so find your zone before you count on it. The city's Utilities Engineering Division writes flood zone determination letters at no charge. The permits guide has more on the exemption.

Beachside permits, Pomona sand and 1970s slabs coming out

The state's Coastal Construction Control Line runs about 7.8 kilometers inside the city, and the state lists the beach itself as an erosion area. State law allows general permits for minor work seaward of the line, and driveways and sidewalks are on that list. So a beachfront owner may answer to the state as well as the city for this work. Ask Permits and Licensing which side of the line your parcel sits on.

Inland, Pomona fine sand is the most common soil on the points we sampled, followed by Samsula muck. Both hold water. About three in four sampled points rate very limited for dwellings, the worst share of the six towns sampled. Before we set a form, we dig out the soft spots under the driveway and compact the base.

The median Daytona Beach home was built in 1981, and nearly half the housing predates 1980, so the first line on your estimate may be the old slab coming out. Pulling it adds $1.50 to $3 per square foot, or $720 to $1,440 on a 480 square foot driveway. Whether you're in Pelican Bay or Hillcrest Homesites, if your street has a homeowners' association, its review can come before the city's: under F.S. 720.3035 it can't make you get the permit first. So ask yours before we order materials.

Want concrete driveway contractors in Daytona Beach to sort out the apron, the zone and the association before the first form goes up? Send us your survey and we'll write the price down for free.