Jennings v. Dade County

I concur in the result and write separately to address two arguments of the appel-lees: (1) This court in Coral Reef Nurseries, Inc. v. Babcock Co., 410 So.2d 648 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982), rejected attempts to categorize county commission hearings on district boundary changes as “legislative,” while treating hearings on applications for special exceptions or variances as “quasi-judicial”; and (2) the petitioner does not state a cause of action by alleging simply that a lobbyist discussed the case in a private meeting with members of the County Commission prior to the hearing. It is clear from Judge…