Miami-Dade County v. Valdes

SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

In an excellent opinion by Judge Venzer, the appellate division determined that the County’s refusal to relax the single-family residential zoning on the respondent’s property notwithstanding that it was effectively surrounded1 by a busy thoroughfare, commercial property, and a group home,2 resulted in the continuance of an impermissible instance of “reverse spot zoning.” See Tollius v. City of Miami, 96 So.2d 122 (Fla.1957); City of Miami Beach v. Robbins, 702 So.2d 1329 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997); Debes v. City of Key West, 690 So.2d 700 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997); City of Coral…