Parcel Combination Request – Palm Beach County, FL

The Parcel Combination Request is the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser form on which a property owner or agent asks the office to combine separate parcels into a single parcel. The request is reviewed by the office's GIS/Mapping Department, and the form's header lists the Geoprocessing Department at the Governmental Center.

The form is short. Part I lists the conditions a combination must meet and the extra items required for condominium units. Part II lists the Property Control Numbers of the parcels, with a Yes/No answer for Building and for Exemption on each row. Part III is the signature block for the current owner(s) or agent.

The form states several limits. The requirements it lists are minimal, and granting a combination remains at the discretion of the Property Appraiser's Office. A combination may affect taxable value, exemptions, capped value and/or taxes. The office does not decide whether parcels meet legal requirements for development purposes; the form says to contact the county or municipality that governs the property for that.

The bottom of the page has boxes for office use only (an interoffice recommendation to proceed, the tax roll year, the completed date and initials). The applicant does not complete them.

Property owners, or agents acting for them, who want two or more parcels combined submit this request. The form says requests may be submitted by property owners or agents, and Part III is signed by the current owner(s) or agent.

To qualify, the parcels and owner must meet all of these conditions:

• The parcels are titled exactly the same.
• The parcels are current on all property taxes.
• The parcels are contiguous, legally and/or physically.
• If only one property is mortgaged, the lender has given written consent to combine the properties.

Condominium owners have additional conditions. They need either an officially recorded amendment to the Declaration of Condominium combining two apartments or units, or a letter from the condominium association's board of directors approving the combination. The units must also be physically combined by a doorway giving interior access from unit to unit(s) as of January 1; the Property Appraiser's office makes a factual determination by field inspection.

The form is not a development approval. Owners who need to know whether parcels meet legal requirements for development should contact the county or municipality governing the property.

The form sets no separate filing deadline: you submit it whenever you want the Property Appraiser to consider combining your parcels, once the parcels meet the conditions in Part I. One date does matter for condominiums: the units must be physically combined by an interior doorway as of January 1, and the office confirms this by field inspection. Because a combination may change taxable value, exemptions, capped value and/or taxes, check the property tax status of the parcels first, since they must be current on all property taxes to qualify. The form prints no processing time.

The form is submitted by email to the GIS/Mapping Department of the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser.

• Email: send the completed request to [email protected]. The form says the request is submitted there for review.
• Questions: call the GIS/Mapping Department at 561.355.1558. The form's header also lists the Geoprocessing Department, Governmental Center-Fifth Floor, 301 north Olive Avenue, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, and a fax number, 561.355.3065, as contact details; it does not name them as filing channels.

Send the signed request together with whatever applies to your parcels: a list of any additional parcels, the lender's written consent if only one property is mortgaged, and, for condominiums, the recorded amendment or the board of directors' letter. Granting a combination remains at the discretion of the Property Appraiser's Office. FillingPDF lets you fill out and download the PDF; submission follows the channels above.