Since January 1, the Counter Takes No Paper

The city's Windows & Doors Retrofit Permit Application Checklist, Form I.D. 015.0, carries a line worth reading before anybody prints anything: 'Effective January 1, 2026, the Building Department is no longer processing paper submittals. Paper submittals will be accepted and converted into an electronic format (for a fee) and returned to you.'

That is not an inconvenience so much as a cost and a delay attached to an old habit. Permitting, inspection scheduling, owner-builder submittal and fee payment all run through the city's eTRAKiT portal, and a package handed over as paper is converted before anyone reviews it.

The second thing this checklist settles is who calculates your pressures. You submit either the city's Retrofit of Windows & Doors (Wind Load Pressures) Submittal Packet, or signed and sealed calculations by a Florida licensed Engineer, together with the Product Approval Submittal Form and the Broward County Uniform Retrofit Window & Door Schedule. On most houses here the first route works. Where it does not, an engineer is a line item somebody has to pay for, and it should appear in the quote rather than in a later conversation.

Median year of construction is 1987, second youngest of the six cities on this site and well ahead of the coastal three. That changes the work itself. Bucks and substrate are more often sound, openings are more often standard sizes, and the discoveries that drive cost on a house from the 1950s turn up less often.

It also changes the argument for doing it at all. Where the existing windows are not impact rated but are not failing either, the decision is about the weather rather than about replacing something already broken. That is a larger and more open question than a salesperson usually makes it, and it deserves a straight answer instead of a discount.

1. 01Assemble the package electronically for the portal, so nothing is converted, charged for and handed back.
2. 02Decide the wind load route at the measure and say plainly if an engineer has to be engaged.
3. 03Record the Notice of Commencement before the first inspection is called, not on the morning of it.
4. 04Allow for the extra review stops where the property is a condominium or multi-family.

The most useful line in the document for a homeowner is the shortest. The checklist states, plainly, 'Shutters not required for Impact Resistant Windows'. On a house currently carrying panels or accordions that removes a whole product from the discussion, and it answers the question most people arrive with, which is whether they are about to be sold both.

Source: City of Coral Springs Windows & Doors Retrofit Permit Application Checklist, Form I.D. 015.0, rev. 2/5/2026 — checked 2026-09-24