Concrete parking lot building in Round Rock TX - a lot that drains and lasts

Yes. Round Rock requires a Site Development Permit for parking lots on all properties except single-family and two-family homes, and the same permit applies to changes such as moving a curb cut or driveway or changing total parking. The city's Planning and Development Services Department approves it, and its staff check the plans against city rules and make sure the paving doesn't conflict with utility lines. Before we set a date, we check which office covers your address, and when a permit is needed we handle the application and keep it moving.

Across Texas, a concrete parking lot usually costs about $6 to $11 per square foot for the full construction scope. That's a statewide planning figure, not our price. Where your lot lands depends on its size, the base work and the drainage it needs, and I'll give you a number once I've seen the site.

A concrete lot that's designed and built for the way parking lots are actually used can give good service for many years with little maintenance. The design and the base decide how much you'll pay to keep it up later, so that's where we put the work up front.

A Texas-licensed professional engineer prepares them, and Round Rock requires that engineer to seal and sign the construction plans. We're licensed and fully insured, we build to those sealed plans, and we help you through the city's approval steps. State rules also call for the aisles beside accessible spaces to be nearly level in every direction, with only enough slope to drain, so we set those grades with care.

Plan the pour around the weather and cut the joints on time. High heat, low humidity and wind all affect how concrete is mixed, hauled and placed, and there are steps that reduce those effects, so ask any contractor what their crew does on a hot, dry or windy day. We keep pours out of the midday heat and cut control joints, the straight grooves that give the slab a planned place to crack, before it cracks somewhere nobody chose.

Start with a pre-submittal meeting, which Round Rock requires before any development application. You schedule it through the city's Permit Portal. The city issues no building permits until the Site Development Permit is approved and a pre-construction meeting is held, so if a building goes with the lot, plan around that wait. If you want the site to join the city's regional detention program, you first have to show that runoff from the developed site can reach a point downstream without harming property along the way.