Wellington Adds Nothing of Its Own, So the Weight Falls on Your Floor Plan

Wellington publishes a Window/Door/Shutter Replacement Checklist Form under the FBC 8th Edition 2023, and the honest thing to say about it is that the village adds nothing. There is a heading on that form for specific requirements and it reads N/A. No local amendment, no design review reaching a single-family window, no coastal overlay on the glass. Of the six places on this site, this is the low-friction one, and dressing that up as a hidden hazard would be inventing a problem in order to sell the cure.

Where the village does ask for something particular, it asks for a drawing. The checklist requires, in its words, a "Copy of floor plan: The floor plan must show the numbered locations of all the window(s)/door(s) being replaced. This layout to match the worksheet." On a two-window job that is trivial. On a house here with thirty or forty openings across four elevations, a numbered plan that agrees with a signed worksheet line for line is the single most likely thing in the package to be wrong, and a mismatch between plan and worksheet is a resubmittal rather than a phone call.

The rest of the list is the standard set, and it is worth reading before the job rather than during it: the completed building permit application, an owner or builder affidavit where applicable, a Notice of Commencement where applicable, the fully completed and signed Window, Door, and Shutter Worksheet, full and complete product approvals for all openings, and a scope of work with the total replacement value of all work including materials and labor. The village publishes a separate Window and Door Buck Affidavit alongside it.

The village puts its equestrian community at 9,000 acres in the western and southern portions of Wellington, inside the Equestrian Preserve Area, with venues for polo, dressage and hunter/jumper alongside non-competitive family-owned farms. The Equestrian Overlay Zoning District was adopted by Council in 2003 to regulate development and activities within that area in order to protect the community's character.

That is not a window rule and we are not going to present it as one. What it is, practically, is the reason an address here can mean a barn office, a groom's apartment, a guest house and a main residence on one parcel, each with its own openings and its own permit history. Counting correctly is the work, and on a property like that the count is not visible from the driveway.

It is also the only one of the six places on this site with no Atlantic frontage at all: no beach, no barrier island, no dune line to measure back from. That is why nothing on the village's checklist mentions tint or coastal exposure, and why the paperwork is the whole of the friction here. What the paperwork does not settle is the practical problem of working on an occupied property with animals on it, which is why we agree an elevation order and a daily close-up point before the first morning rather than negotiating it on site with a wall already open.

1. 01Number every opening at the survey and carry those numbers through the worksheet, the plan, the approvals and the install schedule so nothing ends up with two identities.
2. 02Produce the floor plan as part of the specification rather than as a last-minute attachment, because it is what the reviewer reads the worksheet against.
3. 03Collect the approval for every single opening, including the small fixed units and the transoms most easily left off a list.
4. 04Price the scope of work honestly, since the checklist asks for the total replacement value of all work including labor.

A job in this village lives or dies on the count. Two identical casements on opposite elevations carry different numbers, sometimes different approvals, and different calculated pressures, and the only thing holding that together is a drawing that agrees with a worksheet. We would rather spend an extra hour on the plan than a week waiting on a resubmittal, because nothing else here is slowing the job down.

Source: Village of Wellington Window/Door/Shutter Replacement Checklist Form, FBC 8th Edition 2023, and the village's Building Permits and Equestrian Preserve pages — checked 2026-09-24