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Pour or widen a driveway
Flatwork on your own lot is often exempt, but anything touching the street or the sidewalk needs a separate approval from the road authority.
Permit rules are set locally, so the ZIP decides which state code applies and which office you would be dealing with. We use it to look up the jurisdiction and nothing else.
Why nobody can just tell you
Permitting in the United States is run by thousands of separate authorities, and each one can amend the code it adopts. Any site giving you a confident yes or no for every address in the country is guessing, and you cannot tell which answers are the guesses.
So this does not pretend. Each answer is the typical rule, where it comes from, and the thresholds that would flip it — plus a route to the office that actually decides. How this works.