GLOSSARY

Addition

An addition increases the floor area, height or building footprint of an existing structure. Drawings show how the new work connects to existing foundations, walls, roofs and services.

Detail

About Addition

The intended use, site constraints and capacity of the existing construction help determine the scope.

FLORIDA PERMIT DATA

In the records

"addition" appears in 19,177 matching permits in the Florida records we analyzed.

Counts are not additive: a permit can match more than one term. Adding category counts can count the same permit more than once.

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Understanding the records

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