If you want to do any work on the Florida Turnpike or other highways of the Turnpike Enterprise, you probably need to apply for a General Use Permit. Please print the form back to back on one sheet of paper. And then we need 3 forms with original signatures.
If you want to dewater a site and run the water to the Florida Turnpike or other highways of the Turnpike Enterprise, you probably need to apply for a Dewatering Permit. Please print the form back to back on one sheet of paper
If you don't want to provide us with the as-builts when you have finished your permit work, then please use the words of this draft and prepare a letter to your CEO.
If you want to close a lane on one of the highways of the Turnpike Enterprise - think again. If you still think you need to close a lane then inform yourself as to the Lane Closure Policy.
Your initial contact in reference to a permit request should be with the Permits Office at the Pompano Beach Plaza or the Turkey Lake Plaza on Florida's Turnpike at Mile Post 265. Generally for permits north of the Fort Pierce/Turnpike Interchange contact should be made with the Turkey Lake Office. For those permits south of the Fort Pierce/Turnpike Interchange contact should be with the Pompano Beach Office at Mile Post 65.
If you want to do permit work on the Turnpike, we usually want to know the Section "mile post". Use the MPfixer to learn the section mile post when you know the Turnpike Mile Post.
This page was last updated: November 25, 2008
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When you finish your permitted work, we would really like you to let us know that you are finished. We believe it benefits the applicant and us - considering liability ramifications. Use this form. If there is traffic signal or highway lighting in the permit, use this form
Often applicants would like to have us preview the plan before they make the permit application. If you would like to have a Pre-application Review, please fill out this form and e-mail it to Sheryl or me. We will have meetings at the Pompano Beach Office or the Turkey Lake Office.
If you or your company has caused a spill on one of the highways of the Turnpike Enterprise you will be required to clean it up. Mitigate. You will need a permit from the Permits Office to do this work on the right-of-way. This is the General Use (Environmental Mitigation) Form that you need to fill out and submit. In triplicate, please.
It is our VISION that every communication with the Permits Office be a positive experience.
It is our MISSION to facilitate applicants' rights on Florida's Turnpike Enterprise right-of-way.
When you apply, always remember that you need to submit four originally signed forms for Drainage and Utility Permits and three for other type permits.
When you have finished your permitted work on the Turnpike Enterprise, we ask that you complete a Completion Certification Statement Form so that we can close-out the permit in our files. We believe that is to your benefit in terms of liability. If the work accomplished is to be maintained by an agency other than the DOT (like traffic signals) then the correct form to use is Completion Certification Statement for Traffic Signals Form .
If you have recently applied for a permit, or completed work on a permitted project, or if you have met with us in a pre-application meeting, we would like you to complete a Permits Office Evaluation Form to let us know how we are doing. Are we meeting our vision? Our Mission?
If you are developing property near Forida's Turnpike right-of-way, it is likely that you are required to submit a Drainage Connection Permit Request. It does not matter if you are not "connecting". Just that you are developing near us is the issue. You will also need to fill out Drainage Connection Permit Form. And also these three self explanatory forms:
The decisions we make in the Permits Office are guided or indeed dictated by the Florida Administrative Code (FAC) Rules. This site is not a good site to read the rules but it's the best we've found so far. If you find a better place, let us know.
