There is no room for a gate to swing.

Then it should not swing. A slide or a cantilever gets the same opening without needing an arc that is not there.

Will it overhang the sidewalk?

It should not, and that is a design constraint rather than a preference — whatever the gate does happens inside the property line.

What does the county require?

Broward sits inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so wind rating is set by code. The permit itself is local, and an HOA architectural review often runs alongside it.

Is Broward the same as Miami-Dade?

For wind load, yes — both counties are inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. For permitting, no: that is administered locally and it is not identical from city to city.

Access Control Systems in Plantation, FL

Finished intercom and callbox post beside a gated driveway entrance

Access control · Plantation, FL

Keypad, callbox, telephone entry, RFID and cloud-managed permissions.

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Barrier arm lowered across the entry lane of a gated residential community. — Central Broward — The older inland grid either side of I-95 and the canal network that runs through it.

Plantation · Broward County

Access control is a question about people, not hardware. Who arrives, how often, and whether you want to know about it each time. Answer that and the equipment list writes itself.

Deliveries are constant on a city lot. Telephone entry rings your phone wherever you happen to be, and the gate opens from the call rather than from the doorstep.

The urban grid was laid out long before anybody was automating an entrance, so the space a gate needs has to be found rather than assumed.

Ask before the steel is ordered

Broward is inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so the wind rating is settled by code rather than by preference. What is not settled by code is the local review — Plantation handles that itself, and starting it early is the cheapest decision on the whole project.

Access Control — the full breakdown

Access Control · Plantation

04 frames

Keypad with an integrated card reader mounted on a blue entry pedestal

Keypad plus reader

RFID reader mounted on a post between bollards at a vehicle entrance — RFID at the lane

Weatherproof steel keypad fixed to a concrete entry wall — Flush to the wall

Callbox on a gooseneck post standing on the verge beside a driveway and fence — Callbox on a gooseneck

Before / after

Drag it backto how we found it.

Same job, same angle. Nothing staged between the two frames.

Bare entry post set in the ground with materials on the driveway around it — Telephone entryBare post to callbox

The finished intercom and callbox post beside the gated driveway — Telephone entryBare post to callbox

RFID reader post part-installed between bollards with the wiring still open — RFIDReader in at the lane

The finished RFID reader mounted and closed up on the same post — RFIDReader in at the lane

Worth knowing

Callbox to your phone
RFID tags
Permissions you control
Keypad & code
Slide & cantilever options

There is no room for a gate to swing.: Then it should not swing. A slide or a cantilever gets the same opening without needing an arc that is not there.
Will it overhang the sidewalk?: It should not, and that is a design constraint rather than a preference — whatever the gate does happens inside the property line.
What does the county require?: Broward sits inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, so wind rating is set by code. The permit itself is local, and an HOA architectural review often runs alongside it.
Is Broward the same as Miami-Dade?: For wind load, yes — both counties are inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. For permitting, no: that is administered locally and it is not identical from city to city.

Also covered

The towns marked Central Broward share the same geography as Plantation.