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Entrepreneurs know all too well how a brilliant idea can be slowed down — by lack of vision, not by financing, but by the permitting maze in the 305.

In unincorporated Miami Dade County, the process is comparatively seamless — but step just a mile into one of the 34 incorporated municipalities in the county, and the system becomes far more complex. One city’s fire review may go through a local fire department; another may rely on county fire rescue. One taps into a municipal water and sewer review; another still uses the county’s infrastructure. The variation is bewildering for anyone trying to turn ambition into action.

Take for example: regardless of whether a business is opened in unincorporated territory or within a city, the environmenta

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