Houston County Road & Bridge Department

Building Permit / Flood Zone Permit (Unincorporated County, Road & Bridge Department)

This permit applies only inside unincorporated Houston County — every one of the county's nine municipalities runs its own separate building department and permit process instead, and none of the fees here apply to work permitted by a city. A building permit to construct a house costs $100, a flood-zone permit where applicable costs $50, and relocating a used home or moving a mobile home onto county roadways costs $100; applicants need a plot plan or survey showing the structure's footprint, plus Health Department approval where a septic system is involved. The Road & Bridge Department's own list of services covers permitting, road maintenance, county mapping and subdivision policy, with no inspections or certificate-of-occupancy function named among them, and the county's site publishes no countywide zoning ordinance for unincorporated Houston County — zoning and building-inspection authority, where either exists, belongs to individual municipalities within their own limits.