Permit Expediting in Miami

What to know about permitting in Miami

• Miami-Dade NOA product approval is generally what HVHZ work requires, not statewide approval.
• Certificate of Use is required for business operations and is separate from the CO.
• The city administers its own private provider program.
• Milestone structural recertification applies to qualifying buildings.

City or county?

This is the first question on every Miami project and it is answered by the parcel, not the mailing address. A Miami postal address can sit in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, and the two are reviewed by different departments with different requirements and different registration obligations.

We confirm jurisdiction from county property appraiser parcel records and the municipal boundary map before anything is prepared. It takes minutes and it prevents a rejection that costs a week.

Areas of Miami we work in

We file across the whole city, including Brickell, Downtown, Little Havana, Coconut Grove, Wynwood, Edgewater, Coral Way and Allapattah. If your parcel sits near a boundary we confirm the controlling jurisdiction from the property appraiser record before anything is prepared, because a Miami mailing address does not always mean a Miami permit.

What we permit most in Miami

High-rise and mixed-use development, restaurant and retail build-outs requiring a Certificate of Use, milestone structural recertification work, and HVHZ product approval coordination on every opening and roof.

Alongside that we handle the work every jurisdiction generates: expired and after-the-fact permits, code compliance cases, certificates of occupancy, revisions and resubmittals, contractor registration with the city, and driving permits to a closed status so they do not surface in a lien search years later.

How we work a Miami file

1. Confirm the jurisdiction. Parcel record first, boundary map second, a call to the department third if the parcel sits near a line.
2. Check your standing before filing. City registration active, insurance and workers’ compensation certificates current with Miami specifically, and the qualifier on record matching the license.
3. Review the package against the current checklist rather than the one that was current last year.
4. File, then actually track it — through every reviewing discipline, not just the building queue.
5. Turn comments around inside a week, answered on the drawings rather than in a letter alone.
6. Schedule inspections and close the permit out, and send you the confirmation that it is closed on the record.