Permits & Structural Editor
Mike Reynolds covers permits, inspections, and structural topics for Golden Yards from a contractor-pragmatic frame.
Mike Reynolds leads coverage of municipal permits, inspections, and structural remodeling at Golden Yards Magazine. He writes about what fails under real loads, what gets caught at inspection, and what holds up over ten years of use.
His Highland Park beat covers Town of Highland Park building, plumbing, electrical, and mechanical permit workflows, the conservation district overlay, and the inspector relationships that decide whether a clean packet clears in five working days or sits for four weeks. He also covers similar workflows in Dallas city, University Park, Preston Hollow, and surrounding DFW municipalities.
He sources directly from published municipal procedures, current International Plumbing Code and National Electrical Code editions, and conversations with the inspectors and trade contractors who actually run the permit packets through review.
Town of Highland Park, TX · City of Dallas, TX · University Park, TX · Preston Hollow, TX · Dallas County, TX
A selection of Mike's recent reporting series and investigations at Golden Yards Magazine.
Step-by-step guide to the Town of Highland Park residential remodel permit process, including fee ranges, plan review timelines, conservation overlay triggers, and the nine issues HP inspectors most often flag.
Side-by-side coverage of permit packet requirements, fee schedules, and inspection scheduling across Highland Park, University Park, City of Dallas, and Preston Hollow.
Permits
If your contractor is talking about "filing with the city," and your bathroom is inside the Town of Highland Park, that is the first sentence you need to stop and ask about.
Cost Guides
The reason you searched this is not that you want a single number. It is that one engineer told you $9,500 for crack injection and another told you $145,000 for full underpinning on the same house, and now you cannot tell whether the engineer is right or the contractor is wrong o
Cost Guides
The reason you searched this is not that you want a number. It is that you have already heard $48,000 from one contractor and $185,000 from the next, and now you are trying to figure out which one of them is bidding the actual scope of work.