St. Lucie County
Commercial painting by place
St. Lucie County has three permitting authorities: the county, Port St. Lucie and Fort Pierce, plus the Town of St. Lucie Village. Tradition and St. Lucie West sit outside Port St. Lucie's citywide design standards. These pages sort out who reviews what.
- Port St. LucieIn Port St. Lucie a plain commercial repaint has its own written rule. The Citywide Design Standards say a proposal to paint the walls must meet Section 9.1, Building Face Color, and a changed color must match a number on the city's Approved Colors Chart. Romco checks the scheme against that chart before any wall is coated.Commercial painting in Port St. Lucie →
- TraditionTradition is the 8,200-acre master-planned region of Port St. Lucie that the city exempts from its Citywide Design Standards, because it adopted its own standards when it began. So the city color chart does not settle a Tradition repaint. Romco checks with the property's association or district which standards apply before colors are chosen.Commercial painting in Tradition →
- St. Lucie WestSt. Lucie West is a 4,614-acre area overseen by the St. Lucie West Services District, a Community Development District that counts 530 commercial properties and 128 retention ponds. Port St. Lucie exempts it from the Citywide Design Standards, so Romco checks with the property's association or district which color standards apply before choosing colors.Commercial painting in St. Lucie West →
- Fort PierceFort Pierce has six designated historic districts, and inside them city code Chapter 111 requires a certificate of appropriateness that covers color. Repainting is approved by staff, but painting a never-painted surface on a contributing building goes to the Historic Preservation Board, and the city issues no permit until the certificate is approved.Commercial painting in Fort Pierce →
- Lincoln ParkLincoln Park is one of Fort Pierce's six historic districts, created in 2002 as the Avenue D district and renamed in 2015. Avenue D was the neighborhood's main commercial corridor in the 1950s and 1960s, and repainting a building in the district needs a city certificate of appropriateness before work starts.Commercial painting in Lincoln Park →
- St. Lucie VillageSt. Lucie Village is a town of about 600 people, incorporated in 1961, running 2.6 miles between U.S. 1 and the Indian River Lagoon. Its predominant land use is single-family residential, so commercial painting here is uncommon, and the town, not the county, issues building permits for the work there is.Commercial painting in St. Lucie Village →
- Hutchinson Island SouthHutchinson Island South is a Census-designated place where water covers about ten times more area than land. County code splits the unincorporated island into height zones: up to 125 feet in Zone A and 35 feet in Zone B. Both 2004 hurricanes, Frances and Jeanne, came ashore on southern Hutchinson Island.Commercial painting in Hutchinson Island South →
- Unincorporated St. Lucie CountyUnincorporated St. Lucie County covers 418 square miles and about 76,600 people, all under the county's Building and Code Regulations Division. Painting sits on the county's list of work needing no permit for small repairs, and the county's Community Architectural Standards set soft, muted tones and a three-color limit for new commercial work.Commercial painting in Unincorporated St. Lucie County →
Questions
Rules and questions in St. Lucie
What will painting my St. Lucie building cost?
We do not give a figure until we have walked the building, because the number turns on things a phone call cannot show: how much stucco needs repair, how the walls are reached, whether a Port St. Lucie color review or a Fort Pierce certificate comes first, and how the wash water is captured. After the walk you get a written quote, broken out by surface and by step, so you can compare it line by line.
Does a commercial repaint need a building permit?
It depends on who has jurisdiction. The county lists painting among items that need no permit for small repairs, and asks for an exemption application on some larger non-structural work. Port St. Lucie, Fort Pierce and St. Lucie Village issue their own permits. We confirm with the right office for each job.
Who sets exterior color rules in St. Lucie County?
Port St. Lucie's citywide design standards cover repaints visible from the street, but Tradition and St. Lucie West are exempt because they adopted their own standards. Fort Pierce reviews color inside its historic districts. The county's muted-tone rule applies to new commercial work and major redevelopment.
Port St. Lucie, Fort Pierce and the island
Send the address and we will tell you which rules your repaint falls under
Romco Builders is a licensed Florida general contractor, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale. Then we quote the scope, the order of work and the approvals it needs.