Crossroads Lounge, Inc. v. City of Miami

PEARSON, Judge.

This appeal questions the yalidity of a zoning variance which was granted to a lessee of premises located less than 500 feet from another liquor establishment. The lessee (J & R Restaurant Corp.) had entered into an agreement to rent space, in a new building if it could secure a designated type of liquor license and secure a zoning variance. Thereafter, the lessee entered into an agreement to purchase the liquor license of a person whose property had been taken by eminent domain. The later agreement was also conditioned upon the lessee obtaining a variance.1 The City Commission…