Alachua County, FL · North Central Florida · Permit search guide
Alachua County permit search and official portals.
Alachua County Growth Management, Building Division issues building permits for unincorporated Alachua County. Gainesville and High Springs issue their own permits inside city limits. This guide links each official permit search and explains how to look up a record.
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Guide reviewed Oct 19, 2026. Permit Press is an independent research service, not a government website.
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Step by step
How to search permits in Alachua County.
Start with the office for the property's address. The official portal shows the permit's current status, inspections and documents.
Find the permitting authority
Check whether the address is inside Gainesville or High Springs, which issue their own permits. Otherwise the permit belongs to Alachua County Growth Management, Building Division.
Open the official permit search
Open Alachua County Online Permitting Portal (Citizenserve), which runs on Citizenserve. The county says the portal is where you apply for and track building permits, pay by card, schedule inspections, search permit records and run permit reports.
Search by address or permit number
Search with the street address or the permit number where the portal offers those fields, then open the record for its status, inspections and documents.
Ask the office about older records
If a permit is missing online, ask Alachua County Growth Management, Building Division (352-374-5243) how to request it. Older permits are not always in online systems.
Municipalities
Alachua County cities
and their permits.
A city that runs its own building department issues permits inside its limits, and its records are in the city's portal, not the county's.
City of Gainesville
Building Division within Sustainable Development, 352-334-5050; PermitGNV is used to apply and to view existing permits and public records.
Citizenserve portal Building departmentCity of High Springs
The Building page links to a Citizen Serve Online Permitting Portal; phone 386-454-7322 option 2, inspections 386-454-6222.
Citizenserve portal Building departmentGood to know
Before you search
Alachua County permits.
From the county's and cities' own pages, checked Oct 19, 2026. Each note links the page it comes from.
Building and Zoning Administration is open Monday to Thursday 8:00 am to 4:00 pm and Friday 8:00 am to 1:00 pm.
growth-management.alachuacounty.usThe county's Citizenserve search tool replaced the older Permit Tracker for looking up permits.
growth-management.alachuacounty.usLien searches and certificate of occupancy requests are handled on a separate line, 352-374-5285.
growth-management.alachuacounty.usIf you want to pay by cash or check, you need an appointment, booked at 352-374-5243.
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