Columbia County, FL · North Central Florida · Permit search guide
Columbia County permit search and official portals.
Columbia County Building Department issues building permits for unincorporated Columbia County. Lake City issues its 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 Columbia 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 Lake City, which issues its own permits. Otherwise the permit belongs to Columbia County Building Department.
Open the official permit search
Open Columbia County building permit search. A public search with date range, keywords, permit type, town (Lake City, Ft. White), district, flood zone and zoning filters. Applying is done through the county's separate 'My BNZ Portal' login.
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 Columbia County Building Department (386-758-1008) how to request it. Older permits are not always in online systems.
Municipalities
Columbia 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 Lake City
The city's Growth Management department handles building permitting and inspections (main 386-719-5754).
Building departmentGood to know
Before you search
Columbia County permits.
From the county's and cities' own pages, checked Oct 19, 2026. Each note links the page it comes from.
The Building Department is open Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
columbiacountyfla.comThe county site has a 'Who will issue my permit?' lookup that searches by parcel number, address or owner name.
columbiacountyfla.comPublic records requests go to the Board of County Commissioners at (386) 758-1326 or publicrecords@columbiacountyfla.com.
columbiacountyfla.comSince September 2023, Lake City's own staff, not the county, have issued building permits inside city limits.
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