Permit Extension Request – Cape Coral, FL

The Permit Extension Request, printed on the form as the Extension Request Form, is the City of Cape Coral form used to ask for more time on a permit when the permitted job has not been completed. It is a one-page form.

The form is headed Department of Financial Services, Customer Billing Services Division, and the revision printed on it is Revised_2025. It carries two rules in plain print. Extension requests may not exceed 90 days, and permits are extended from the expiration date, not from the date the extension request is submitted.

The applicant's part asks for the date, the permit number, the type of permit, the days requested, the applicant name, the site address with block and lot, a phone number, and the reason the job was not completed, followed by a printed name and signature. A separate block marked FOR OFFICE USE ONLY records the current and new expiration dates, who approved or rejected the request and when, a count of extensions (1st through 4th), a fee line and the initials of the customer service representative (CSR). The applicant does not complete that block.

The city lists the form as Permit Extension Request in the Expansion / New Construction / Irrigation category of its Common Forms page. It only extends an existing permit. The applications for permits themselves, such as Application - Utility Permit, are separate documents on the same page.

The holder or applicant of a City of Cape Coral permit whose job is not finished and who wants more time files this request. The form identifies the request by permit number and type of permit, and asks for the applicant's name, the site address (block and lot) and a phone number, so it is completed by the person the permit was issued to or the applicant of record.

Conditions printed on the form:

• The extension may not exceed 90 days, so the number you enter under Days Requested must stay within that limit.
• The extension runs from the permit's expiration date, not from the day you submit the request.
• You must state the reason the job was not completed.
• The applicant signs the form and also prints their name.

The form says nothing about who may sign for someone else, so check with the city before another person signs for the permit holder. Do not use this form to apply for a new permit; the city lists separate applications for that.

You complete the request when a permitted job will not be finished and the permit needs more time. The form sets no filing deadline of its own, but it states that the extension is counted from the permit's expiration date, not from the date you submit the request, so a late submission does not move the new date. The form also says requests may not exceed 90 days.

The office-use block has lines for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th, which show that the city tracks successive extensions on one permit; the form does not explain how many are allowed. The form gives no processing time. For questions about timing, use the city's CSS portal at CapeCoral.gov/energov.

The form names one channel: the city's CSS portal. The printed instruction reads that the completed form MUST be uploaded to the permit via your CSS portal at CapeCoral.gov/energov.

• Online upload: complete and sign the form, then upload it to the permit record in the CSS portal at CapeCoral.gov/energov. Upload it to the permit it concerns, using the permit number you entered on the form.
• Other channels: the form prints no mailing address, counter or e-mail option.

Before you upload, check that the permit number, type of permit, days requested (not more than 90), site address, reason and signature are filled in, and leave the FOR OFFICE USE ONLY block empty. The block contains a Fee line; the form prints no amount, so ask the City of Cape Coral for any fee that applies. FillingPDF lets you fill out and download the PDF; submission follows the city's portal channel above.