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Who to call about a deck permit in Dare County
Three verified doors in Dare County: the Planning administration building in Manteo for CAMA applications, the main planning line, and the Hatteras Island satellite office in Frisco.
One county, three doors, and the door that is right depends entirely on where the lot sits. Every number and address below is verified from the county's own pages — so this is the rare how-to page you can act on directly, today, without a callback from a web form.
The details
The main door, for most of the county. Dare County Planning Office — 954 Marshall C. Collins Drive: CAMA permit applications in Dare County may be obtained at any Dare County Planning Office in the Dare County Administration Building at 954 Marshall C. Collins Drive, Manteo — and the county lists 252-475-5849 for that office. If your deck is anywhere north of Oregon Inlet or on Roanoke Island, this is the building your paperwork lives in, and the CAMA application is the errand that usually brings a waterfront deck owner to it.
The general line, for the question you have not formed yet. Dare County Planning main line 252-475-5000: Dare County Planning's main contact number is 252-475-5000, at the same county administration building in Manteo. Start here when you do not yet know which permit you need — the main line routes the question, and a two-minute conversation about an address is the cheapest permit consulting that exists on this beach.
The island door, and it is a different drive. Hatteras Island LPO satellite office in Frisco: the county's Local Permit Officer for Hatteras Island is based at the satellite office at 50347 NC Highway 12, Frisco — 252-475-5879 — and is the CAMA and permit point of contact for decks in Frisco, Buxton, Hatteras, and Avon. An Avon deck owner who drives to Manteo for a CAMA question has added two hours to a phone call; the island office exists precisely so that does not have to happen.
How to use the three efficiently: call the main line first with the address, ask whether the lot triggers the CAMA layer and which office owns the review, then take the specific application errand to the office that was named. Bring the address, the parcel number if you have it, and a sketch of what you intend to build — the same three things every one of these doors will ask for first.
252-475-5000 to start, Manteo for the county's applications, Frisco for the island's — three doors, one address, and the county answers its phones.
On the record: Dare County Planning Office — 954 Marshall C. Collins Drive (Dare County — Building Permits & Inspections (darenc.gov, retrieved 2026-09-17)) · Dare County Planning main line 252-475-5000 (Dare County — Know Your Flood Zone (darenc.gov, retrieved 2026-09-17)) · Hatteras Island LPO satellite office in Frisco (Dare County — CAMA (darenc.gov, retrieved 2026-09-17))
Hand-verified 2026-09-17 against the primary sources named above; where a fact could not be verified it was left out, never guessed.