"Cert. of Use" stating "Condo-Hotel" required for STR (Miami)?

[Dennis Gallof]

Hi, I have a condo in Edgewater, Miami and before this COVID pandemic they allowed owners to rent out their units as short term rentals; however, now they're requiring all these documents/licenses in place before they allow me to do short term rentals again.  I'm following the steps in the link below.

https://medium.com/keycafe/und...

Anyway, I'm making progress but now hit a bump in the road in trying to get my "certificate of use (CU)"; so for me to get this I first need to submit a building permit application for remodeling requesting a "change of use" to "condo-hotel".  Then once this is done, I need to request a "certificate of occupancy (CO)" that I will then submit with my "certificate of use (CU)" application.

And on top of this I, the owner, can't open up this building permit and it has to be done by a contractor.  I don't understand why this is so difficult if I'm not actually doing any work at all in my condo just changing the use to say "condo-hotel".  And the building unit where I have this condo is half hotel and half condo; so the association has no issues on short term rentals it's just they are requiring these Miami licenses/documents.

Has anyone ever had to deal with a similar issue like this?

Thank you!