Concrete Contractor in Roswell, GA

Concrete driveways for Roswell's older homes

The median home in Roswell was built in 1989. About 68 percent of the city's homes date from 1970 to 1999. New houses are few by comparison. Census permit data show 47 new single-family homes authorized in Roswell in 2025, in a city of about 37,400 homes.

So most driveway work here starts with a driveway that is already in place. Roswell's code enforcement page sums up a parking rule that matters. In single-family zoning districts, front-yard parking is allowed only within a hard-surfaced driveway. Concrete is one of the surfaces it names, and parking on grass or lawn areas is not allowed.

A household with one more car may need a wider driveway or a parking pad beside it. Front walks age along with the driveway. When a walk has cracked or tilted, we break it out and pour a new one. Our page on walkway replacement explains how that job runs.

Is your Roswell home near the Chattahoochee River?

The Chattahoochee River runs along Roswell, and state law protects the land beside it. Georgia's Metropolitan River Protection Act created a corridor that reaches 2,000 feet from each bank. Homes near the river, as in parts of Martin's Landing, can sit inside it.

Land in the corridor falls into six vulnerability categories. Each one caps the share of a lot that can be impervious surface, the hard cover rain cannot soak through. The Atlanta Regional Commission counts driveways, decks, patios and pools in that total. Its plan also sets a 150-foot impervious surface setback from the river.

A review is required when a project adds impervious surface beyond the existing or approved amount. So a new backyard patio near the river may need one first. The city's Planning and Zoning office takes the application, and the Atlanta Regional Commission reviews it.

Creeks matter too. The city says about 10 percent of Roswell lies in or near a 100-year floodplain. FEMA's flood studies there cover streams such as Willeo Creek and Foe Killer Creek. The city requires a local permit for any development in the floodplain.

Work in the Roswell Historic District

Roswell's Historic Preservation Commission reviews projects in the 640-acre Roswell Historic District. Owners there need its approval for external material changes. The city's list includes new buildings and any change in a building's exterior look. It also includes any change in external environmental features.

New siding changes how a house looks, and a fence can change the grounds. Before that work, ask Planning and Zoning staff about a Certificate of Appropriateness. The city holds an orientation meeting with each applicant before it accepts an application. Our fence installation page covers the fence styles we build.

Building permits are a separate step, handled by the city's Building Division. Roswell takes every permit application online, through its Permitting and Licensing HUB. The city requires a permit for deck building, whether the deck is new or replaces an old one. For fences, the city says building permits are not normally required.

Red clay and shallow rock under Roswell yards

NRCS soil maps label about a third of Roswell as urban land. That is ground so reshaped by building and paving that no soil series is named. Much of the rest is Grover, Madison, Mountain Park and Bethlehem soils. Madison and Bethlehem have a red clay subsoil.

Rock can sit close to the surface. NRCS puts soft bedrock 20 to 40 inches down in Bethlehem soils. Its typical Mountain Park profile reaches moderately hard mica schist at 32 inches. NRCS maps parts of the city as stony, some of it on slopes of 20 to 60 percent.

That matters for footings and fence posts, because a post hole can reach rock early. A slab on a slope needs a plan for runoff too. We look at the ground before we put the quote in writing.