Ours is a shared entry, not a driveway.

Different machine. It gets specified on cycles a day and on who needs to get through it, not on the gate's weight alone.

Who is responsible for the entry?

Usually the association rather than any one resident, which changes who we talk to and who signs the work off.

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.

HOA & Community Gate Systems in Coconut Creek, FL

Barrier arm lowered across a residential community vehicle entrance

HOA & community entries · Coconut Creek, FL

Resident throughput, guest access and vendor access on the same lane.

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Timber-and-steel entry gate framed by dense climbing greenery. — The north-west communities — Master-planned since the seventies, which means shared entries far more often than private ones.

Coconut Creek · Broward County

A community entrance has three completely different users arriving at it, and the system has to handle all three without a queue. Resident tags, a directory for guests, and a way to let a contractor in on a Tuesday without giving them permanent access.

A shared entry is a different machine from a private driveway — duty cycle, callbox, resident directory and contractor access all wanted on the same lane.

A shared entrance belongs to everybody, which makes downtime a governance problem as much as a mechanical one.

One code, many counters

The wind-load requirement in Coconut Creek is the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone standard that governs the whole of Broward. The review that sits on top of it is local, and in a county this dense with planned communities an association's architectural approval is frequently the longer of the two.

Commercial — the full breakdown

Before / after

Drag it backto how we found it.

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

Bare wall and verge before the barrier arm and cabinet were installed — Barrier armEmpty lane to controlled

The installed barrier arm and cabinet controlling the same entrance — Barrier armEmpty lane to controlled

Commercial · Coconut Creek

04 frames

Barrier arm and gate controlling the exit road of a residential plaza

In and out lanes · concept scene

Installed barrier arm and cabinet controlling a covered parking entrance — Cabinet and arm in

Cantilever slide gate spanning a commercial yard entrance without a ground track — Cantilever, no track

Landscaped community entrance island with an access pedestal at dusk — Community entry

Straight answers

Serviceable in place
High-cycle operators
Cantilever & barrier
Loop detection
Shared-entry duty cycle

Ours is a shared entry, not a driveway.: Different machine. It gets specified on cycles a day and on who needs to get through it, not on the gate's weight alone.
Who is responsible for the entry?: Usually the association rather than any one resident, which changes who we talk to and who signs the work off.
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.