Private Provider Plan Review and Inspections in Martin County, Florida

A private provider is a Florida licensed professional who does your plan review and inspections instead of the building department. Florida Statute 553.791 gives you that option on any project in the state, Martin County included, and here is the part that matters: the county has to accept the work as if their own staff did it. They cannot make you wait in their line to prove it. That statute is your way around the queue, and Guardian is the firm that runs it for Martin County builders. We check your plans against the Florida Building Code.

Right now your plans go into Martin County's Accela portal, into the same Digital Plan Room queue as everyone else's. The system is fine. The line is the problem. A real plan set almost never clears on the first pass, and every correction sends you back to the end of that line while your lot sits and your loan runs. Days you cannot bill turn into weeks you cannot explain.

A Florida licensed reviewer checks the full Building, Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing set against the code and sends you clear comments fast, so your engineer knows exactly what to fix instead of waiting weeks just to find out. Once the set complies, you get back stamped plans and the paperwork the county requires, including the Notice to Building Official. You file with the same building department you always have, nothing changes there.

Inspections work the same way, without waiting on someone to hopefully show up to your site. When you're ready for your next inspection, your crew documents the work through our app, close enough to show the detail an inspector would check standing on site. A Florida licensed inspector reviews that footage against the code and logs the result, most often the same day you send it.

Your crew keeps working, the record goes to the building department, and the next stage moves. Because every stage sits on the one before it, an inspection that clears the day you send it, instead of days later, keeps your whole schedule and every trade behind it on track.

Martin County is not one building department, it is two. Anything inside Stuart city limits runs through the City of Stuart's building department on its own system. Anything in Palm City, Hobe Sound, Jensen Beach, Indiantown, or unincorporated Martin runs through Martin county's dedicated portal. Two departments, two portals, two sets of rules for one county line on a map.

If you build on both sides of that line, you deal with two building departments that each run plan review and inspections their own way. Guardian is registered to do that work in both, so the review and the inspections stay the same no matter which side your project sits on.

Please note that as of July 1st, 2026 Martin County has updated certain building permit exemptions related to HB803.