Updated : 04/22/2024
Overview
The State Code of Florida requires that all municipalities and counties within the state enforce the most current (5th edition, 2014, effective 06/30/15) Florida Building Code, including Building, Residential and Existing Building Codes, at a minimum. Fort Myers Beach, FL, further amended the state code with additional, more stringent, provisions. Fort Myers Beach, FL, municipal code § 6-111 (adopted and amended).
The entire incorporated area of the Town of Fort Myers Beach lies within the wind-borne debris region and the 130 mph basic wind speed zone as established by section 1606.1.6 and figure 1606 of the Florida Building Code.
Helpful resources for Fort Myers Beach, Florida include the following.
Residential Building Code
Fort Myers Beach adopted a code that is yet to be identified. Please
contact PLRB if you would like us to research this for you.
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2023 Florida Bldg. Code, Residential (2021 IRC)(Fort Myers Beach, FL Sec. 6-111. - Adoption; amendments.)
...the provisions of Section 1612.4 of the Florida Building Code, Building
or, as applicable, the provisions of R322 of the Florida Building Code, Residential.
This section shall not apply to Section 3109 of the Florida Building Code, Building.
Florida Building Code, Building, Section 1612.2....
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Comments
The State Code of Florida requires that all municipalities and counties within the state enforce the most current (5th edition, 2014, effective 06/30/15) Florida Building Code, including Building, Residential and Existing Building Codes, at a minimum. Fort Myers Beach, FL, further amended the state code with additional, more stringent, provisions. Fort Myers Beach, FL, municipal code § 6-111 (adopted and amended).
The entire incorporated area of the Town of Fort Myers Beach lies within the wind-borne debris region and the 130 mph basic wind speed zone as established by section 1606.1.6 and figure 1606 of the Florida Building Code.
Existing Buildings
Existing buildings, meaning buildings that were built in accordance to code at the time of
construction, typically merit extra consideration in a current updated code.
Florida Building Code, Existing Building, 5th Edition (2014)
Commercial Building Code
Fort Myers Beach adopted You can find a copy of the code here.You can find information about amendments to the model code here.
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2023 Florida Bldg. Code, Building (2021 IBC)(Fort Myers Beach, FL Sec. 6-501. - Design and construction of buildings, structures and facilities exempt from the Florida Building Code.)
...exempt from the Florida Building Code,
including substantial improvement or repair of substantial damage of such buildings,
structures and facilities, must be designed and constructed in accordance with the
flood load and flood-resistant construction requirements of ASCE 24. Structures exempt
from the Florida Building Code that are not walled...
Comments
The State Code of Florida requires that all municipalities and counties within the state enforce the most current (5th edition, 2014, effective 06/30/15) Florida Building Code, including Building, Residential and Existing Building Codes, at a minimum. Fort Myers Beach, FL, further amended the state code with additional, more stringent, provisions. Fort Myers Beach, FL, municipal code § 6-111 (adopted and amended).
The entire incorporated area of the Town of Fort Myers Beach lies within the wind-borne debris region and the 130 mph basic wind speed zone as established by section 1606.1.6 and figure 1606 of the Florida Building Code.
Existing Buildings
Florida Building Code, Existing Building, 5th Edition (2014)
Historic Structures, is hereby amended to read as follows (§ 6-122):
"The provisions of this code relating to the construction, alteration, repair, enlargement, restoration, relocation or moving of buildings or structures shall not be mandatory for an existing building or structure identified and classified by the federal, state, county, or town government as a historic structure, or as a contributing structure in a historic district, when such building or structure is judged by the building official to be safe and in the public interest of health, safety, and welfare regarding any proposed construction, alteration, repair, enlargement, restoration, relocation or moving.
If it is proposed that a historic building that is undergoing repair, renovation, alternation, reconstruction, or change of occupancy not comply literally with certain technical standards, the building official may require the building to be investigated and evaluated by a registered design professional. Such evaluation shall identify each required feature of the building not in technical compliance and shall demonstrate how the intent of these provisions is to be complied with in providing an equivalent level of safety."
