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Port St. Lucie magistrate gives property owners 30–60 days to resolve building‑code violations, sets daily fines
Summary
At a Port St. Lucie special magistrate hearing, the presiding official set compliance deadlines and daily fines for multiple building-code violation cases: 30 days and $25/day for a pergola case; 60 days and $50/day or $100/day for three other cases, all requiring permit issuance or removal of unpermitted work.
The special magistrate presiding over a Port St. Lucie building-code hearing set deadlines and daily fines for several property‑related code‑violation cases, granting respondents time to obtain permits, correct work or sell structures while warning fines would begin if compliance deadlines were missed.
Case highlights: the magistrate gave Andrew Lewis 30 days (compliance date Jan. 27) to obtain required plans and permits for an unpermitted pergola at 5385 Northwest Rugby Drive; if not complied with, Lewis faces a $25 per day fine (up to $2,500) plus investigation costs. Lewis testified he had been…
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