The Town's certificate comes before the forms
Zoning inside Dublin belongs to the Town, and the county's page sends readers to the Town offices for development within the town limits. Pulaski, the county's other incorporated town, zones under its own ordinance as well, and concrete work in Pulaski has a page of its own.
The Town's zoning ordinance states its rule in one line. Section 2.5 says buildings or structures "shall be started, reconstructed, enlarged or altered only after a certificate of zoning compliance has been obtained from the Administrator," and the same section makes that certificate void 180 days after approval if it goes unused in that time. A certificate obtained months ahead of the work can lapse before the first footer is poured.
On a concrete job the question comes up whenever the pour is part of a building being started or enlarged: footers for a garage, the floor of an addition, the slab under a new outbuilding. The ordinance defines a structure as "anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires a permanent location on the ground," and it leaves fences out of that definition. Whether a given slab counts is the Administrator's reading, so ask the Town's zoning office before the forms go in.
The copy the Town posts is a scan of the ordinance adopted March 30, 1993, with several articles marked as changed on October 17, 2002, and a few pages carry handwritten edits. Confirm the current wording with the Town before a number in it decides where a slab goes.
Detached garages, patios and the five-foot line
Dublin's R-1 and R-2 residential districts sort a garage and a patio differently. In R-1, section 6-1.6 says garages or other accessory structures attached to the main structure "shall be considered part of the main structure," and that no accessory structure may sit closer than five feet to any property line, alley lines excepted. Section 7-1.9 says the same about attached garages in R-2 and measures its five feet to any side lot line.
Section 6-1.6 ends with the line that matters for flatwork: "Carports, patios, or open spaces shall not be considered to be accessory structures." Section 7-1.9 carries the same exclusion. So in those districts a patio is not held to the five-foot accessory rule, while a detached garage or an outbuilding on its own slab is.
Two more R-1 lines shape a garage plan. Section 6-3 sets structures thirty-five feet or more back from any street right-of-way fifty feet or wider, and where existing buildings have already set a setback line, their average applies; an attached garage counts as part of the house. Under section 6-6.4, an accessory building within ten feet of a party lot line can be no more than one story high. Ask the Town's zoning office which district your lot is in before layout.
Parking lots and site plans inside town
Commercial flatwork in Dublin runs through the Town's site plan article before it runs through a mixer. Section 23-1 calls for site plans for "any other use except detached single-family dwellings" and for "any parking lot or parking facility which is to contain more than 10 parking spaces," and the preliminary plan shows the general location and character of construction of proposed driveways, curb cuts, entrances and exits. The apron, the curb cut and the lot layout get drawn before anyone orders concrete.
The ordinance also sets a floor for the surface. Section 18-3.1 says every parcel of land "hereafter used as a public parking area shall be surfaced with crushed rock, gravel, asphalt, or concrete and maintained in a dust free condition," and section 18-3.2 asks for parking lots and internal streets built to best engineering practices "which reflect adequate sub-base, base, and surface to handle projected traffic loads." That second line is the trade's own rule in the Town's words: a concrete lot is only as good as the base under it. How a lot like that gets poured is the subject of our commercial flatwork page.
Town streets and the public walk out front
The Town of Dublin maintains its own local streets. VDOT's Guide to Highway System Changes, dated November 2021, says "ten towns with populations under 3,500 have elected to maintain local roads" and lists Dublin in Pulaski County among them. VDOT's urban program page still listed Dublin among the towns that qualify for that program in September 2026.
For a new drive or a replaced apron that meets a town street, start with the Town rather than VDOT. VDOT's land use permit rule makes its permit "valid only on right-of-way under VDOT's jurisdiction," and the VDOT entrance permit process is the one for a drive onto a road VDOT maintains. Which kind of road fronts your lot is a question to put to the Town before the apron is formed.
A public walk out front is a Town question too. The Town's charter, in section 7.1, lets the Town regulate the use of its sidewalks and "prevent any obstruction of or encroachment over, under, or in any street, alley, sidewalk or other public place," or allow an encroachment on terms its council sets. We found no Town ordinance on sidewalk repair, driveway entrances or street openings posted on the Town's website, so replacing a stretch of public walk, or cutting an apron through one, starts with a call to the Town. Thickness and joints for the walk itself sit with our sidewalks and steps page.
Flood maps inside the town limits
FEMA's Community Status Book lists the Town of Dublin under "Communities Participating in the National Flood Program" on a row of its own, separate from Pulaski County's, and gives the town a current effective flood map date of January 11, 2024. On a low lot, look the address up on FEMA's flood map before a footer or a slab is laid out. If the lot sits in a mapped flood zone, ask the Town office and Pulaski County's building office what that means for a new foundation, because the answer is cheaper before the forms are set than after.
Pulaski County's building desk behind the Town
The building permit and the inspections for a Dublin address come from Pulaski County, as of May 1, 2025, by the Town's own account. Where a job inside town needs both, the certificate comes from the Town and the building permit from the county. The county desk itself is covered on the Pulaski County concrete permits page, and the frost depth the county publishes for footings is spelled out in frost depth and footing codes.
Pouring and pumping on a Dublin lot
Dublin sits inside the roughly 1 to 1.5 hour drive from Hillsville that we cover, and the crew that forms and finishes the pour runs the pump as well. For the drive itself, from base to finish, see concrete driveways.
The pump comes out for a foundation, for a pour of about 8 cubic yards or more, or when the truck cannot get near the forms, such as a backyard slab behind a house or a footer at the back of a lot. Ours is a trailer-mounted line pump running 2.5 inch and 3 inch line, with an operator at the machine and a hose hand at the forms, so the concrete goes through hose instead of crossing the lot in wheelbarrows.
Driveways run $8 to $12 per square foot installed, and a garage slab at 5 inches runs $8 to $12, with tear-out adding $2 to $3 where an old slab comes out first. The figure for your lot comes from a free written estimate.
We place the locate request for the digging we do. The homeowner's side of a locate gets its own walk-through in 811 and utility locates.