Permits and jurisdiction
Is my address/parcel located within the City of Longwood City limits?
Not necessarily. The City's own FAQ states that everything west of I-4 with a Longwood mailing address — including Wekiwa Springs and Jamestown — and every property in ZIP 32779 is outside the city and permits through Seminole County instead. Check the parcel on the Property Appraiser's GIS site.
The City says so itself
West of I-4, and all of 32779, is not the City
This is the single most expensive thing to get wrong on a Longwood air conditioning job. The mailing address says “Longwood, FL” either way. The building department does not follow the mailing address, it follows the city limits — and a permit pulled with the wrong jurisdiction is a permit that does not close.
Five substantial neighbourhoods sit on the county side while carrying a Longwood address: Sweetwater Oaks, Wekiva Hunt Club, Sabal Point, The Springs and Innswood. All five file with the Seminole County Building Division in Sanford, on the county's fee schedule and the county's portal.
How to settle it in two minutes
Check the parcel, not the postcode
How to check, definitively and for free: look the parcel up on the Seminole County Property Appraiser's site. The City's own FAQ points there for exactly this question. The parcel record shows the taxing jurisdiction, which is the answer — not the ZIP code, not the school zone, not what the neighbours say.
What changes with the answer: which building division issues the permit, what the permit costs, which portal it is filed in, who inspects, and how the inspection is booked. Inside the city, that is a $246.61 residential change-out fee, the SmartGov portal, and an inspection request to 407-260-3471 by 3:30 p.m. the business day before. Outside it, Seminole County's schedule applies, which the county has said is rising as it moves to actual-inspection-cost fees.
- City of Longwood Building Division
- 174 West Church Avenue, Longwood, FL 32750 · 407-260-3462 · Mon–Fri 8:00–4:30
- City inspection requests
- 407-260-3471, by 3:30 p.m. the business day before
- Seminole County Building Division
- 1101 E. First Street, Sanford, FL 32771 · 407-665-7050
- ZIP 32750
- City, plus unincorporated pockets
- ZIP 32779
- Entirely outside the city
Sources
- City of Longwood FAQ: “Is my address/parcel located within the City of Longwood City limits?”. https://www.longwoodfl.org/Faq.aspx?QID=159
- Seminole County Property Appraiser — parcel search and GIS, the way to confirm whether a Longwood-address parcel is inside the city limits. https://www.scpafl.org/
- Seminole County Property Appraiser CAMA extract (Parcels.csv, dated 5 September 2026), tax district L1 — Longwood; improved residential parcels, DOR codes 01 and 04. https://www.scpafl.org/
- City of Longwood, Permitting and Inspections. https://www.longwoodfl.org/169/Permitting-and-Inspections
- City of Longwood Fee Schedule (Resolution 26-1724, effective 1 July 2026). https://www.longwoodfl.org/702/Fee-Schedule
- Seminole County Building Division. https://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/development-services/building
- Seminole County, New State Legislation Affecting Permits. https://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/development-services/building/new-state-legislation-affecting-permits
Figures are dated. Permit fees, rebate amounts and code cycles change — re-check the primary source before you rely on a number here.
Tell us the street and we will tell you
We check the parcel before we quote, because the answer changes the permit, the fee and the inspector.