Estes Express Lines v. Metropolitan Dade County Environmental Quality Control Board

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

Because the petitioner, as the purchaser of property upon which a nonconforming prior use for an operation of a truck maintenance facility had been previously granted by the Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM), was absolutely entitled to the reis-suance of such a permit in its own name under the applicable “changes in ownership” provision of the Dade County Code,1 we *353quash the appellate division’s failure to quash the denial of such a permit by the Dade County Environmental Quality Control Board.

The respondents’ position to the contrary is…