Park-A-Partners v. Dade County

The appellant, by a 1984 action, challenges the method by which the Board of County Commissioners of Dade County established the criteria for making a special assessment to build the downtown Miami “Peoplemover” as an adjunct of Metrorail. The ordinance in question provided a thirty-day limitation on any attack that related to the terms thereof,1 and the trial court found that this barred the appellant’s complaint. The appellant urges that its attack on the ordinance is one contending that it is a “void” ordinance and therefore subject to attack, notwithstanding the thirty-day limitation,…