The Dare County Planning Office in Manteo

Every deck permit in Dare County sooner or later becomes an errand to one address, and for most of the county the address is Manteo. 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, NC 27954 — with 252-475-5849 listed for that office. This page is the practical version: which doors, which numbers, and what to walk in with.

The two numbers, and which one to dial first. Dare County Planning main line 252-475-5000: Dare County Planning's main contact number is 252-475-5000, and the department sits in the same administration building on Marshall C. Collins Drive. The main line is the starting call when you do not yet know what you need — the office that issues the CAMA applications is the same planning operation, and one conversation with the address in hand usually sorts which desk, which permit, and which fee.

What the building is for, in deck terms: it is where the county's coastal layer becomes paper. A waterfront deck's CAMA application is obtained here, the minor development permit that most decks need is priced at the county's published CAMA minor permit fee $119 (July 1, 2025), and the planning operation that runs the flood-zone lookups — the free identification of a property's zone — answers from the same campus. For an owner, one trip or one call can cover the CAMA question, the flood-zone question, and the elevation-certificate question, because all three live in this department.

What to bring, or at least have ready: the street address and parcel, a plain description of what you intend to build — deck size, attachment, whether it carries electrical — and, if the project is already scoped, a sense of its projected cost, because the $40,000 licensing line is one of the questions the county will ask. The office runs on specifics; the owner who arrives with them spends minutes where the owner who arrives with a vibe spends mornings.

252-475-5000 to route the question, 954 Marshall C. Collins Drive to answer it in person — the county's permit operation is centralized in Manteo for a reason, and one prepared call makes it work the way it was built to.