New Construction and Development Assistance
Are you planning a construction or redevelopment project in GRU's service territory? GRU's New Services department can help. New Services serves as a liaison between the construction industry, GRU utility engineering, and GRU's Customer Service department.
New Services Mission
Achieve community development goals and needs by providing guidance, support, and exceptional customer service while maintaining safety and integrity of our utilities.
New Services Vision
Provide solutions that enable and transform the way our customers do business by ensuring consistent service that is transparent, timely, efficient and friendly while staying on the cutting edge of technology.
What We Do
New Services facilitates site and construction permitting as well as the installation of new utility services. Our responsibilities include:
- Coordinating with developers, engineers, builders and City of Gainesville staff for project planning and review.
- Issuing Utility Construction Permits (UCPs) once all impacted utilities have approved the project.
- Issuing service orders for new installations once all inspections are passed.
- Assisting property owners who want to abandon a well, add a separate irrigation meter, add natural gas service, etc.
Schedule a Project Meeting
If you're planning a development in the City of Gainesville, GRU requires a project meeting prior to submitting plans for review. To request a project meeting, please email newservices@gru.com with the following information:
- Name
- Contact phone number
- Project name
- Project address
- Parcel number
- Brief project description
- Concept or site plan
Forms
Required Forms for Plan Review
Water/Wastewater
Electric
Gas
Resources
Contact Us
For more information, please call 352-393-1413 or email newservices@gru.com.