Residential marine permitting, made easy.
Tideway manages dock, seawall and boat lift permits for Florida marine contractors — complete packages, coordinated professionals and proactive communication, from first review to approval.
Grow without adding a permitting department
Complete Marine Permit Management gives owner-led contractors back the one thing they can’t buy more of — time.
Return owner and project-manager time to estimating, sales and construction.
Start projects with fewer preventable administrative delays.
Handle more annual permit volume without increasing office staffing proportionally.
Give homeowners consistent, professional project updates.
Use one accountable partner instead of coordinating multiple professional firms.
You build. We permit.
Permitting is what stands between a signed contract and a crew in the water. Tideway is the permitting department you never had to hire — specialists who prepare complete packages, coordinate the professionals and manage every agency until the permit is in hand.
Prepared for first-pass completeness
Packages built against each agency’s actual requirements — designed to reduce avoidable comments and resubmissions.
Fewer avoidable revisions
We know what each agency asks for and prepare for it before submission.
You stay in control
You own the project and the homeowner relationship. We own the permitting process.
One point of contact
Surveyors, engineers and consultants coordinated for you — or bring your own.
Three ways to work with Tideway
Start with a free readiness review, keep your own professionals, or hand us the whole permitting effort.
Complete Marine Permit Management
One agreement, one point of contact for the entire permitting effort.
- Tideway procures, contracts and coordinates the professional team
- Complete package prepared, submitted and tracked at every agency
- Every comment and request for information managed to approval
Permit Management
Use your existing team. We run the permitting around them.
- Keep your existing surveyor, engineer or consultant relationships
- Tideway builds, submits and manages the permit package
- Agency comments and resubmittals handled through approval
Free Permit Readiness Review
Stage 1 of Complete Management — and a clear starting point on its own.
- Which agencies are likely involved for your site and scope
- The professionals, documents and approvals the project will need
- Early risks and a realistic timeline expectation
One proven process, every project
Seven stages from first look to approved permit — you always know where your project stands and what happens next.
The Tideway Network
A curated statewide network of surveyors, engineers and environmental consultants — scoped, scheduled and quality-managed by Tideway. Prefer your own professionals? We coordinate them just the same.
How the network worksCounty Guides
Marine permitting works differently in every Florida county. Our guides explain the agencies, the steps and what to expect — grounded in real permit records, not guesswork.
Browse the countiesHave a project in mind?
Start with a free Permit Readiness Review. Tell us the address and scope, and we will map the agencies, requirements and risks — before you commit to anything.
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