Concrete Contractor in Seminole Lake, Plant City

Strawberry Festival parking lots inside a 1926 subdivision

The county plat record lists Seminole Lake Estates as 165 lots in Plat Book 27, page 20, recorded April 8, 1926. It covers about 126 acres, roomy for 165 lots, and all of it sits inside Plant City limits.

The neighbor you can't miss is the Florida Strawberry Festival. On the 2026 tax roll it owns 7 parcels inside the plat, and its TECO Expo Hall and the Red, Blue and Gray festival parking lots are mapped on or along it. West Baker Street (US 92) crosses the subdivision. The house streets include Seminole Lake Boulevard, West Oak Avenue, North Lake Drive, Hickman Avenue, Delaware Avenue, West Risk Street and West Cleveland Street. Tomlin Middle School is right at the edge, and Burchwood Park is about 130 meters out. See the full Plant City service area or the driveway service page for the job end to end.

Base flood elevations of 111.2 to 112.7 feet on the low side

On FEMA's flood layer (panels 12057C0268H and 12057C0269H, effective August 28, 2008), about 60.7% of the plat is Zone X and about 39.3% is Zone AE. Every AE piece here has a published base flood elevation: 111.5 feet on the biggest share, then 112.3, 112.7 and 111.2 feet. Those numbers are about 20 feet lower than the ones mapped in Whispering Woods. The shares cover the whole plat, streets and festival lots included, so look up your own parcel.

Why it matters for concrete: Plant City says adding fill, redirecting water or building drainage structures often needs approval from Streets and Stormwater. A patio built up on fill, or a driveway widened toward a neighbor's yard, can trip that review on an AE lot. Keeping new slabs near the grade that's there now, pitched to drain, is the simpler path.

It also decides the HB 803 question. That law lets some non-structural single-family work under $7,500 skip the permit with written approval first, but never when any part of the property is in a flood hazard area. Lots fully in Zone X may qualify; AE lots won't.

Concrete Pricing

Here are our typical ranges for Seminole Lake jobs. You get the real number on a free written estimate after we see the site.

Ranges, not a quote. Tear-out adds $2 to $4 per sq ft, and any fill on a Zone AE lot is priced as its own line. Free written estimate after we see the site.

Zolfo sand, depressional soils and a 7% wetland share

The USDA soil survey splits Seminole Lake into two kinds of ground. About 61% is somewhat poorly drained: Zolfo fine sand (37.8%), where the seasonal water table stays about 30 inches down at its highest, and Seffner fine sand (23.5%). About 38% is poorly or very poorly drained. That includes Basinger, Holopaw and Samsula depressional soils (20.6%), where water stands at the surface, plus St. Johns fine sand (9.4%), where water can sit about 6 inches down, and some Myakka fine sand.

The National Wetlands Inventory maps about 7.3% of the plat as forested or shrub wetland and pond, and USGS shows small unnamed waterbodies inside it. Spartman Branch runs about 335 meters away.

So the same street can hold a dry pad and a soggy one. A slab on Zolfo sand is a normal job. A patio at the back of a lot in the depressional soils needs roots and vegetation stripped and clean sand compacted for even support, and it helps to pour in a dry stretch rather than after a run of storms. The NWS rainy season here runs May 25 to October 10. Our sandy soil guide covers the prep.

What to Expect, Start to Finish

1. Send the address

   Tell us your street in Seminole Lake so we can pull up the flood zone and soil for your parcel before the visit.

2. Walk the lot together

   The on-site estimate is free. We measure, look at the low spots, and talk through layout and finish.

3. Price in writing

   A written quote follows within 48 hours, with fill, tear-out and apron work broken out.

4. Permit, pour, clean site

   With the city permit in hand and the apron forms inspected, we pour the slab and leave the jobsite clean.

Two building waves on one plat and a dozen open lots

The 2026 roll shows 165 parcels: 130 single-family homes, 12 vacant residential lots, 5 small multifamily buildings, the 7 festival parcels, and a few offices, shops and a church. The houses came in two waves on the same 1926 plat. About 51 went up in the 1940s and 1950s, 55 in the 1980s, and 8 in 2020 or later. The median build year is 1982. The median house lot is about 7,608 square feet with about 1,284 square feet of living space.

That mix decides what the job looks like. A 1980s house may be ready for a new concrete driveway or a wider one; tear-out adds $2 to $4 per sq ft. A 1940s or 1950s house might want a front walk and a back patio sized to a lot under 8,000 square feet. Any of the 12 open lots would need a house slab, and the city wants a survey before slab inspection showing finished floor elevation, the crown of the nearest road and setbacks. A stamped entry can go on the same quote.

Who owns the street in front of a Seminole Lake lot

County road data codes every residential street segment inside the plat as owned and maintained by Plant City, about 2.7 km. So most driveways here tie into a city street and follow the city's driveway rules: a permit issued before work starts, the driveway on the site plan, and an apron inside the right-of-way poured with 3000 psi fiber concrete at least 6 inches thick, with no steel, wood joints in place of saw cuts, a 15-inch culvert where one is needed, and no meter boxes or cleanouts under it. The forms get inspected with 24 hours' notice, and city repairs stop at the edge of pavement after that.

A few edges are different. West Baker Street is an FDOT road, and Reynolds Street on the edge is State Road 574, so ask FDOT before planning a connection onto either. Whitehurst Road is coded city-owned but maintained by county Public Works, and a short piece of North Ritter Street is coded to the school district; call the Building Department about those. The plat is outside the historic districts. On a job over $2,500, the owner records a Notice of Commencement with the county clerk before work starts. Our driveway permit guide has every step. Nearby we also pour in Pinecrest, Country Hills, Madison Park, Washington Park and Walden Lake.