No town permit desk: Eastover's paperwork runs through the county
Eastover incorporated in 2007, and its Town Hall doesn't run a building or zoning counter. The town's Services page lists Planning and Inspections under Cumberland County. So before a pour, our call goes to the county office.
The county zoning ordinance, in Section 108(A), makes it unlawful to start the excavation or construction of any building or other structure, accessory structures included, until a zoning permit is issued, and a permit goes void after six months without real progress. The same document defines a driveway as a private access way used by the people who live at, work at or visit the parcel. The permit sentence doesn't name patios or driveways, so the first question is whether your stand-alone slab counts. As driveway contractors in Cumberland County, we ask that before the forms go up. The permit guide lists the other offices.
Ridge or bottom: two soils inside one town
Soil survey spots read at 60 places inside the town lines came back Roanoke and Warne soils at 12, Lakeland sand at 7, Lakeland-Urban land complex at 5, Cape Fear loam at 5, Altavista fine sandy loam at 5, Johnston loam at 4, Wagram loamy sand at 3 and Candor sand at 3. That's a mix of dry ridges and wet bottoms. NRCS rates Lakeland as excessively drained sand. It rates Roanoke as poorly drained, and Cape Fear and Johnston as very poorly drained.
The dwelling ratings say the same thing. Roanoke, Cape Fear, Johnston and Altavista are all rated very limited for houses without basements, while Lakeland rates not limited. A pad isn't a house, but the same wetness drags the rating down. On a ridge, our work is compaction and a roof-water plan. In a bottom, we plan a drained base and a slope away from the house, and we pour after the ground has firmed up. Two lots on one road can need two different quotes. Rain adds up to 44.58 inches a year at Fayetteville Regional Airport, enough to show you a wet corner by spring.
Pours in Eastover are priced by the square foot, $7 to $12 per sq ft, and tear-out of an old pad adds $1.50 to $4 per sq ft. Bottomland lots can add base and drainage work, which goes in writing at the estimate.
| Job | Size | Per sq ft | What it comes to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single-car strip on a ridge lot | 16x40 (640 sq ft) | $7 to $12 | $4,480 to $7,680 |
| Two-car pad | 600 to 720 sq ft | $7 to $12 | $4,500 to $8,500 |
| Wide pad with a parking bay | 28x30 (840 sq ft) | $7 to $12 | $5,880 to $10,080 |
| Tear-out and haul-off of a 28x30 pad | 840 sq ft | $1.50 to $4 | $1,260 to $3,360 |
That's square-foot math and nothing more. Base depth on wet ground, slope, truck access and who owns the road all move the number. We give a free written estimate after we see the site.
